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Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (48 P) Pages in category "Female Christian missionaries" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 469 total.
Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt - first world missionary for Woman's Christian Temperance Union; David Livingstone – missionary and explorer in Africa; Walter Henry Medhurst – revised versions of the Bible for his mission in China; Luella Miner - missionary in China, 1887 to 1935; Robert Moffat – Scottish missionary to Africa
Jesus's interactions with women; List of women in the Bible; ... and missionary partner to Paul ... Tryphena and Tryphosa are Christian women mentioned in Romans 16: ...
Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...
Female Christian missionaries (3 C, 469 P) Pages in category "Female missionaries" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Priscilla (Missionary & Teacher) fl. 49–65 CE: Rome: Jewish Christian and tentmaker, partnered with Paul during his missionary journeys, living and working in Rome, Corinth, and Ephesus. Known for instructing Apollos and hosting house churches, she exemplified leadership and dedication to early Christianity.
In the developing world, people continued to convert to Christianity in large numbers. Among the most famous and influential women missionaries of the period was the Catholic nun Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work in "bringing help to suffering humanity". [138]
Jean-Rémy Bessieux – missionary to Gabon and its first bishop; Giacomo Bini – Franciscan missionary to Rwanda; Libert H. Boeynaems – missionary to Hawaii; Luis de Bolaños – missionary who started the Indian Reductions system in Paraguay; François Bourgade – one of the first Christian missionaries to Muslim North Africa