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The China Inland Mission was the last Protestant missionary society to leave China. In 1900 there were an estimated 100,000 Protestants in China. By 1950 the number had increased to 700,000, but still far less than one percent of the total Chinese population.
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.
Medical missions in China by the late 19th century laid the foundations for modern medicine in China. Western medical missionaries established the first modern clinics and hospitals, provided the first training for nurses, and opened the first medical schools in China. [72] By 1901, China was the most popular destination for medical missionaries.
Lutheran Brethren Mission: 1903 Kiel China Mission 1897 Kiangshi-Hunan Tract Press 1903 Kiao-chau Swedish Baptist Mission Macao Christian College in China Medical Missionary Society of China: 1838 Methodist New Connexion: 1860 Methodist Episcopal Church South USA: 1902 Methodist Episcopal Mission: 1902 Missionary Home and Agency: 1902
The Church Missionary Society in China 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, Protestant, and Orthodox Christians around the world.
The frontispiece of Athanasius Kircher's 1667 China Illustrata, depicting the Jesuit founders Francis Xavier and Ignatius of Loyola adoring the monogram of Christ in Heaven while Johann Adam Schall von Bell and Matteo Ricci labor on the China mission "The Complete Map of the Myriad Countries" (Wanguo Quantu), Giulio Aleni's adaptation of Western geographic knowledge to Chinese cartographic ...
Protestant missionaries played a significant role in introducing knowledge of China to the United States and the United States to China. Protestant Christians in China established the first clinics and hospitals, [13] provided the first training for nurses, opened the first modern schools, worked to abolish practices such as foot binding, [14 ...
The Catholic Church (Chinese: 天主教; pinyin: Tiānzhǔ jiào; lit. 'Religion of the Lord of Heaven', after the Chinese term for the Christian God) first appeared in China upon the arrival of John of Montecorvino in China proper during the Yuan dynasty; he was the first Catholic missionary in the country, and would become the first bishop of Khanbaliq (1271–1368).