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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 ...
Up until 1906 Fuh-Kien was known as the South China Mission of the CMS and was an ecclesiastical archdeaconry of the Diocese of Hong Kong, visited by the Bishops of Hong Kong. In that year Revd J. C. Hoare was appointed bishop of Fuh-Kien followed by Bishops Price and Hind who had served as a missionary in Fuh-Kien since 1902.
It had only eight students the first year, but there were thirty the following year, and by 1905 the number had doubled. [16] First house for FFMA mission at Chengdu, before 1905. During this period, two new mission centres were opened in Chengdu, the capital, and Suining (Sui-ling Hsien), a county situated between Tongchuan and Chongqing.
Luo Wenzao [a] OP (c. 1610s – 27 February 1691) was the first person of Chinese ethnicity to be appointed as a Catholic bishop.After the Qing dynasty proscribed Christianity and banished foreign missionaries in 1665, Luo became the only person in charge of the Catholic missions in China.
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.
Jesuit China missions; Religion in China This page was last edited on 17 December 2024, at 18:47 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Bosshardt on horseback following his release from captivity in 1936. Bosshardt was born to Swiss parents in Manchester, England, and was accepted for training by the China Inland Mission in 1920. Within two years he departed for China and was assigned to work in Guizhou Province. He was married to Rose Piaget (1894-1965) in Guiyang in June 1931.
Robert Arthur Mathews (4 February 1912 - 29 July 1978) [1] was a Protestant Christian missionary who served with the China Inland Mission (CIM) in China.He and fellow CIM missionary, Dr. Rupert Clark, were the last foreign missionaries to leave China in 1953 following the takeover of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949.