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This is a list of notable Protestant missionaries in China by agency. Beginning with the arrival of Robert Morrison in 1807 and ending in 1953 with the departure of Arthur Matthews and Dr. Rupert Clark of the China Inland Mission, thousands of foreign Protestant missionaries and their families, lived and worked in China to spread Christianity, establish schools, and work as medical missionaries.
John Wesley – missionary/evangelist in Europe and America Walter Weston – missionary to Japan, popularized the term " Japanese Alps " George Whitefield – missionary/evangelist to the colonial United States
For Robert Morrison and the first missionaries who followed him, life in China consisted of being confined to Portuguese Macao and the Thirteen Factories trading ghetto in Guangzhou (then known as "Canton") with only the reluctant support of the East India Company and confronting opposition from the Chinese government and from the Jesuits who had been established in China for more than a century.
This is a list of scholarly, missionary and other works by Robert Morrison : Robert Morrison (1812). Horae Sinicae: Translations from the Popular Literature of the Chinese. London. Robert Morrison (1813). Hsin i Chao Shu; Robert Morrison (1815). A Grammar of the Chinese Language. Serampore: Printed at the Mission-Press. pp. 280
Marcos was elected as Patriarch of the Church of the East, and Bar Sauma went as far as visiting the courts of Europe in 1287–1288, where he told Western monarchs about Christianity among the Mongols. In 1294, Franciscan friars from Europe initiated mission work in China. For about a century they worked in parallel with the Church of the East ...
Chinese Evangelization Society 1853 Chinese Home Missionary Society: Chinese Tract Society: 1878 Christian and Missionary Alliance: 1890 Christian Catholic Church in Zion [1] 1903 Christian College in China: 1903 Christian Reformed Church: Christian Vernacular Society of Shanghai: 1890 Christians' Mission: 1885 Church of England Mission 1903
1721 – Mission San Juan Bautista Malibat in Baja California is abandoned due to the hostility of the Cochimi Indians, as well as to the decimation of the local population by epidemics and a water shortage. Chinese Kangxi Emperor bans Christian missionaries as a result of the Chinese Rites controversy.
Ivan Vreman S.J. (1619-1620) - Croatian Jesuit missionary, astronomer and mathematician Andrius Rudamina S.J. (1620-1630s) - Lithuanian Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell S.J. (1592–1666) - German Jesuit missionary and astronomer