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  2. List of Protestant missionaries in China - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Christianity in China - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Protestant missions in China - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Vatican makes fresh overture to China, reaffirms that ... - AOL

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    The Vatican made another big overture to China on Tuesday, reaffirming the Catholic Church poses no threat to Beijing's sovereignty and admitting that Western missionaries had made “errors” in ...

  6. List of Christian missionaries - Wikipedia

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    Griffith John Missionary in China and companion of Jonathan Goforth; 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 ...

  7. Catholic Church in China - Wikipedia

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    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).

  8. Category:Christian missions in China - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Christian missions in China" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  9. List of Mormon missionary entries by country - Wikipedia

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    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 ...