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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.
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.
The China Inland Mission, based in London with a strong appeal to fundamentalist and evangelical Anglicans, was the largest mission agency in China and it is estimated that Taylor was responsible for more people being converted to Christianity than at any other time since The days of the apostles. Out of the 8,500 Protestant missionaries that ...
Future LDS Church president, David O. McKay, travelled to China with Hugh Cannon in 1921, symbolically consecrating China to missionary efforts without beginning an actual missionary campaign. [ 2 ] : 43–44 [ 4 ] : 42 Cannon wrote that in the aftermath of China's ongoing famine, unrest, and recent humiliations on the part of foreign powers ...
The missionary efforts and other work of the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, between the 16th and 17th century played a significant role in continuing the transmission of knowledge, science, and culture between China and the West, and influenced Christian culture in Chinese society today.
Missionaries have preached in Hong Kong, and Macau; 1 Feb 1834 Orson Pratt came to China and held meetings; [7] Missionaries also called 28 August 1852 to China by Brigham Young; [8] 7-8 March 1853, 109 Elders called to various missions among them China. [9] Additionally, LDS missionaries are currently not preaching in a number of countries ...
Canadian Presbyterian Mission; The Canton Hospital; Chefoo School; China Centenary Missionary Conference; China Martyrs of 1900; China's Spiritual Need and Claims; Chinese Evangelisation Society; The Chinese Union; The Christian Occupation of China; Church Missionary Society in China; Church of England Zenana Missionary Society
Christian missionaries in China (10 C, 21 P) H. Christian missionaries in Hong Kong (1 C, 13 P) I. Christian missionaries in India (4 C, 23 P)