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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.
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 ...
With the formation of the BFM, missionaries were sent to Singapore to establish a mission as China was not open for foreign residence. [7] And yet, with the First Opium War and the Treaty of Nanking the BFM closed its mission in Singapore and eventually opened a mission at Xiamen, one of the five treaty ports established by the Treaty of Nanking. [8]
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
Ivan Vreman S.J. (1619-1620) - Croatian Jesuit missionary, astronomer and mathematician Andrius Rudamina S.J. (1620-1630s) - Lithuanian Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell S.J. (1592–1666) - German Jesuit missionary and astronomer
Pages in category "Protestant missionaries in China" The following 175 pages are in this category, out of 175 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Roman Catholic missionaries in China (4 C, 128 P) Pages in category "Christian missionaries in China" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.