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.
Missionary organizations
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
American Presbyterian Mission
American Southern Presbyterian Mission
American Methodist Episcopal Mission
American Southern Methodist Mission
American Southern Baptist Mission
China Inland Mission
Church Missionary Society
English Presbyterian Mission
London Missionary Society
Mission Covenant Church of Sweden
Protestant Episcopal Church Mission
A list of missionaries of the Episcopal Church (United States) a member Province of the worldwide Anglican Communion that served in China from 1835.
In 1912, Episcopal Church missionary activities in China were reorganized with Anglican mission initiatives of the Church of England and other Anglican provinces under the banner of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui.
English Baptist Missionary Society
Protestant missionaries affiliated with other agencies
See also
- List of Protestant missionary societies in China (1807–1953)
- Church Missionary Society in China
- List of Roman Catholic missionaries in China
- List of Christian missionaries
- Timeline of Christian missions
- Chefoo School
- Lammermuir Party
- Thomas Richardson Colledge
- Grace Dyer Taylor
- Murders of John and Betty Stam
- Kenneth Scott Latourette
- George S. Benson
- China Centenary Missionary Conference
References
Further reading
- Anderson, Gerald H. (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of Christian Mission, Macmillan Reference, 1998
- Broomhall, AJ, Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century Vols. I, II, III, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1981
- Fulton, Austin Through Earthquake Wind and Fire; Church and mission in Manchuria 1867-1950: the work of the United Presbyterian Church, the United Free Church of Scotland, the Church of Scotland and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland with the Chinese Church in Manchuria. Edinburgh: St Andrew Press. 1967. Lists all Church of Scotland, Presbyterian Church of England and Presbyterian Church in Ireland missionaries from 1867 to 1950. (Contains listing of all their missionaries.)
- Griffiths, Valerie, Not Less Than Everything, Oxford: Monarch Books & OMF International, 2004
- Latourette, Kenneth Scott, A History of Christian Missions in China, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1929
- Lovett, Richard, The History of the London Missionary Society 1795 – 1895 Vol. II, London: Henry Frowde, 1899
- Shorrock, Arthur, Shensi in Sunshine and Shade, Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press, 1926
- Sibree, James, Register of LMS Missionaries, 1796–1923, London: LMS, 1923
- Wylie, Alexander (1867). Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press.
External links
- Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
- Missionaries in Amoy (primarily with the RCA)
- Amoy Mission Project
- List of articles regarding Fuzhou's Christian history
