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Born. (1761-08-17) 17 August 1761. Paulerspury, England. Died. 9 June 1834 (1834-06-09) (aged 72) Serampore, Bengal Presidency, British India. Signature. 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 ...
British Commonwealth. The Church Missionary Society in India was a branch organisation established by the Church Missionary Society (CMS), which was founded in Britain in 1799 under the name the Society for Missions to Africa and the East, [1] as a mission society working with the Anglican Communion, other Protestants, and Orthodox Christians ...
Robert Caldwell (7 May 1814 – 28 August 1891) was a British missionary and linguist.. A missionary for the London Missionary Society, he arrived in British India at age 24, and studied the local language to spread the word of the Bible in a vernacular language, studies that led him to author a text on comparative grammar of the South Indian languages.
Charles Freer Andrews. Charles Freer Andrews (12 February 1871 – 5 April 1940) was an Anglican priest and Christian missionary, educator and social reformer, and an activist for Indian independence. He became a close friend of Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi and identified with the Indian liberation struggle.
Eugen Liebendörfer – German physician and Basel missionary to India. James Long – Church Missionary Society missionary. Joshua Marshman. Henry Martyn – Church Missionary Society missionary. Arthur Margoschis – Nazareth, Tamil Nadu – SPG missionary. Julia Lore McGrew - medical missionary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of ...
Serampore Trio. The Serampore Trio was the name given to three pioneering English missionaries in India, namely William Carey (1761-1834), a shoemaker, [1] Joshua Marshman, (1768-1837), a schoolteacher, [2] and William Ward (1769-1823), a printer. [3] William Carey arrived in Bengal in 1793 and Marshman and Ward arrived in 1799.
Christianity is the predominant religion in the North East states of Nagaland, MizoramMeghalaya, and Manipur, and has substantial populations in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Tripura, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goaand Andaman Nicobar Islands.
James Edward Lesslie Newbigin (8 December 1909 – 30 January 1998) was a British theologian, missiologist, missionary and author. Though originally ordained within the Church of Scotland, Newbigin spent much of his career serving as a missionary in India and became affiliated with the Church of South India and the United Reformed Church, becoming one of the Church of South India's first bishops.