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1604 – Jesuit missionary Abbè Jessè Flèchè arrives at Port Royal, Nova Scotia. 1605 – Roberto de Nobili goes to India [142] 1606 – Japanese shÅgun Tokugawa Ieyasu bans Christianity. 1607 – Missionary Juan Fonte establishes the first Jesuit mission among the Tarahumara in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Northwest Mexico.
Saint Kilian – Irish missionary killed in Franconia. Mark the Evangelist. Luke the Evangelist. Pantaenus – early missionary to India. Saint Patrick – early missionary to Ireland. Saint Paul. Twelve Apostles – all of the twelve are considered missionaries. Ulfilas – missionary to the Goths.
Signature. Portrait of Hiram and Sybil Moseley Bingham, by Samuel Morse, 1819. Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham I (October 30, 1789 – November 11, 1869), was the leader of the first group of American Protestant missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Hawaiian Islands. Like most of the missionaries, he was from New England.
William Carey (17 August 1761 – 9 June 1834) was an English Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College and the Serampore University, the first degree-awarding university in India [1] and cofounded the Serampore Mission Press.
The first missionaries went out in 1804. They came from the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg and had trained at the Berlin Seminary. The name Church Missionary Society began to be used and in 1812 the society was renamed The Church Missionary Society. [4] In 1829, the CMS began to send medical personnel as missionaries.
In the first stage, missionaries arrived on their own, without secular support, in the ninth-century. [437] Next, a secular ruler would take charge of Christianization in their territory. This stage ended once a defined and organized ecclesiastical network was established. [438] By 1350, Scandinavia was an integral part of Western Christendom ...
During the Middle Ages, Christian monasteries and missionaries (such as Saint Patrick and Adalbert of Prague) fostered formal education and learning of religion, beyond the boundaries of the old Roman Empire. In the seventh century, Gregory the Great sent missionaries, including Augustine of Canterbury, into England.
A Christian mission is an organized effort to carry on evangelism or other activities, such as educational or hospital work, in the name of the Christian faith. [1] Missions involve sending individuals and groups across boundaries, most commonly geographical boundaries. [2] Sometimes individuals are sent and are called missionaries, and ...