List of Christian Missionaries
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The following are notable Christian missionaries
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so it may be claimed by both Catholic and Orthodoxy or belonging to an early Christian groups.
Mission (Christian)
Christian missionary activities often involve sending individuals and groups , to foreign countries and to places in their own homeland. This has frequently involved not only evangelization , but also humanitarian work, especially among the poor and disadvantaged...
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Early Christian missionaries
These are missionaries that predate the Second Council of NicaeaSecond Council of Nicaea
The Second Council of Nicaea is regarded as the Seventh Ecumenical Council by Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Catholic Churches and various other Western Christian groups...
so it may be claimed by both Catholic and Orthodoxy or belonging to an early Christian groups.
- AlopenAlopenAlopen is the first recorded Christian missionary to reach China, during the Tang Dynasty. He was a Nestorian, and probably a Syriac-speaker from Persia...
– First missionary to China (Nestorian) - Augustine of CanterburyAugustine of CanterburyAugustine of Canterbury was a Benedictine monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597...
– Missionary to England - ApollosApollosSaint Apollos is an apostle who is also a 1st century Alexandrian Jewish Christian mentioned several times in the New Testament...
- Saint Barnabas
- Saint BonifaceSaint BonifaceSaint Boniface , the Apostle of the Germans, born Winfrid, Wynfrith, or Wynfryth in the kingdom of Wessex, probably at Crediton , was a missionary who propagated Christianity in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century. He is the patron saint of Germany and the first archbishop of Mainz...
– Influential in the conversion of German peoples - Brieuc
- ColumbaColumbaSaint Columba —also known as Colum Cille , Colm Cille , Calum Cille and Kolban or Kolbjørn —was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period...
– Early missionary to Scotland - David of BasraDavid of BasraDavid of Basra, sometimes rendered Dudi of Basra or David of Charax, was a 3rd- and 4th-century CE Christian Metropolitan bishop who undertook missionary work in India around the year 300...
– Early missionary to India - DenisDenisSaint Denis is a Christian martyr and saint. In the third century, he was Bishop of Paris. He was martyred in connection with the Decian persecution of Christians, shortly after A.D. 250...
– Early missionary to France - Frumentius – Early missionary to Ethiopia
- Saint KilianSaint KilianSaint Kilian, also spelled Killian , was an Irish missionary bishop and the apostle of Franconia , where he began his labours towards the end of the 7th century.-Background:...
– Irish missionary killed in FranconiaFranconiaFranconia is a region of Germany comprising the northern parts of the modern state of Bavaria, a small part of southern Thuringia, and a region in northeastern Baden-Württemberg called Tauberfranken... - Mark the EvangelistMark the EvangelistMark the Evangelist is the traditional author of the Gospel of Mark. He is one of the Seventy Disciples of Christ, and the founder of the Church of Alexandria, one of the original four main sees of Christianity....
- Saint PatrickSaint PatrickSaint Patrick was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints....
– Early missionary to Ireland - Paul of TarsusPaul of TarsusPaul the Apostle , also known as Saul of Tarsus, is described in the Christian New Testament as one of the most influential early Christian missionaries, with the writings ascribed to him by the church forming a considerable portion of the New Testament...
- PantaenusPantaenusSaint Pantaenus was a Christian theologian who founded the Catechetical School of Alexandria about AD 190. This school was the earliest catechetical school, and became influential in the development of Christian theology....
– Early missionary to India - Twelve Apostles – All of the twelve are considered missionaries at some level
- UlfilasUlfilasUlfilas, or Gothic Wulfila , bishop, missionary, and Bible translator, was a Goth or half-Goth and half-Greek from Cappadocia who had spent time inside the Roman Empire at the peak of the Arian controversy. Ulfilas was ordained a bishop by Eusebius of Nicomedia and returned to his people to work...
– Missionary to the Goths - Dr. Mattie b Tate- second Presbyterian US missionary to Korea ( Chonju, Korea)
Anglican
- Geoffrey BinghamGeoffrey BinghamReverend Geoffrey Cyril Bingham AM, MM, was an Australian author and Minister in the Anglican Church of Australia.Geoff Bingham was born in Goulburn, New South Wales...
– Mission in Pakistan - James Blair (clergyman)James Blair (clergyman)James Blair D.D. was a Scottish born clergyman in the Church of England. He was also a missionary and an educator, best known as the founder of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.- Youth and education :...
- William Duncan (missionary)William Duncan (missionary)William Duncan was an English-born Anglican missionary who founded the Tsimshian communities of Metlakatla, British Columbia, in Canada, and Metlakatla, Alaska, in the United States...
– Worked with the TsimshianTsimshianThe Tsimshian are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Tsimshian translates to Inside the Skeena River. Their communities are in British Columbia and Alaska, around Terrace and Prince Rupert and the southernmost corner of Alaska on Annette Island. There are approximately 10,000...
s - James HanningtonJames HanningtonJames Hannington was an Anglican missionary, saint and martyr.-Life:Hannington was born at Hurstpierpoint in Sussex, England, on 3 September 1847. A poor scholar, he left school at fifteen to work in his father's Brighton counting house. At twenty-one, Hannington decided to pursue a clerical...
– Saint in Anglicanism who was killed in Uganda - Robert MachrayRobert MachrayRobert Machray was a Church of England clergyman and missionary and the first Primate of the Church of England in Canada.-Life:...
clergyman and missionary and first Primate of the Church of England in Canada - Samuel MarsdenSamuel MarsdenSamuel Marsden was an English born Anglican cleric and a prominent member of the Church Missionary Society, believed to have introduced Christianity to New Zealand...
– Missionary to Australia - Henry MartynHenry MartynHenry Martyn was an Anglican priest and missionary to the peoples of India and Persia. Born in Truro, Cornwall, he was educated at Truro Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. A chance encounter with Charles Simeon led him to become a missionary...
– Missionary to India - William Mitchell (Reverend)William Mitchell (Reverend)William Mitchell was a Church of England priest who was the first ordained person to provide religious services in the Swan Valley area of the Swan River Colony...
– Missionary to India - Charles William PearsonCharles William PearsonCharles William Pearson was a pioneer Anglican missionary in Uganda, and thus was one of the pioneers of the Church of Uganda. He was later a parish priest in England.-Early life:...
– Pioneer of the Church of UgandaChurch of UgandaThe Church of the Province of Uganda is a member church of the Anglican Communion. Currently there are 34 dioceses which make up the Church of Uganda, each headed by a bishop.... - Henry Townsend (missionary)Henry Townsend (missionary)Henry Townsend was an Anglican missionary in Nigeria. Ordained in England in 1842, Townsend set off for Sierra Leone, landing there that same year. After working there only a few months, he was transferred to the Yoruba mission....
– Missionary in West Africa - Cecil Tyndale-BiscoeCecil Tyndale-BiscoeCecil Earle Tyndale-Biscoe was a British missionary and educationalist, working in Kashmir. He was born with the family name Biscoe. It was changed to Tyndale-Biscoe in 1883....
– He worked in KashmirKashmirKashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range... - Walter WestonWalter WestonThe Reverend Walter Weston , was an English clergyman, missionary, and mountaineer.-Background and early life:...
– Missionary to Japan, popularized the term Japanese AlpsJapanese AlpsThe is a series of mountain ranges in Japan that bisect the main island of Honshū. The name was coined by William Gowland, the "Father of Japanese Archaeology," and later popularized by Reverend Walter Weston , an English missionary for whom a memorial plaque is located at Kamikochi, a tourist... - John Burdett WittenoomJohn Burdett WittenoomJohn Burdett Wittenoom was a colonial clergyman who was the second Anglican clergyman to perform religious services in the Swan River Colony, Australia, soon after its establishment in 1829....
– Missionary to Australia - Gladys AylwardGladys AylwardGladys May Aylward was the evangelical Christian missionary to China whose story was told in the book The Small Woman by Alan Burgess, published in 1957...
– Missionary to ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
and TaiwanTaiwanTaiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
Baptist
- John Birch (missionary)John Birch (missionary)John Morrison Birch was an American military intelligence officer and a Baptist missionary in World War II who was shot by armed supporters of the Communist Party of China. Some politically conservative groups in the United States consider him to be a martyr and the first victim of the Cold War...
– Baptist missionary killed in China - Joseph Booth – Missionary to what is now MalawiMalawiThe Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size...
- William Carey – Linked to India and a founder of the Baptist Missionary SocietyBaptist Missionary SocietyrightBMS World Mission is a Christian missionary society founded by Baptists from England in 1792. It was originally called the Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Amongst the Heathen, but for most of its life was known as the Baptist Missionary Society...
- Issachar Jacox RobertsIssachar Jacox RobertsIssachar Jacox Roberts was an American Baptist missionary in 19th century China. Roberts was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, and graduated from Furman University, a Baptist school in Greenville, South Carolina...
– Baptist missionary who, at first unintentionally, inspired Hong XiuquanHong XiuquanHong Xiuquan , born Hong Renkun, style name Huoxiu , was a Hakka Chinese who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, establishing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom over varying portions of southern China, with himself as the "Heavenly King" and self-proclaimed brother of Jesus Christ.-Early... - Adoniram JudsonAdoniram JudsonAdoniram Judson, Jr. was an American Baptist missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Adoniram Judson became the first Protestant missionary sent from North America to preach in Burma...
– American missionary to Burma whose conversion to Baptist beliefs en route to the mission field led to the founding of the first Baptist association in the U.S. - Ann Hasseltine JudsonAnn Hasseltine JudsonAnn Hasseltine Judson was one of the first female American foreign missionaries. She attended the Bradford Academy and during a revival there read Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education by Hannah More, which led her to "seek a life of 'usefulness'". Born in Bradford, Massachusetts,...
– wife of Adoniram whose writings home made the couple celebrities - George Lisle (Baptist)George Lisle (Baptist)George Liele Liele, or Leile, or George Sharp was an African American and emancipated slave who became the founding pastor of the First African Baptist Church, in Savannah, Georgia . He became the first American missionary, leaving in 1782 for Jamaica; this is twenty years before Adoniram Judson...
First American missionary. Served in Jamaica. - Isaac McCoyIsaac McCoyIsaac McCoy was a Baptist missionary among the Native Americans in present-day Indiana, Michigan and Missouri. He was an advocate of Indian removal from the eastern United States, proposing an Indian state in what is now Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma...
Missionary to the American Indians - Lottie MoonLottie MoonCharlotte Digges "Lottie" Moon was a Southern Baptist missionary to China with the Foreign Mission Board who spent nearly forty years living and working in China...
– Southern Baptist missionary to China (the Lottie Moon Christmas offering is still an important event in the Southern Baptist calendar) - Anna Seward PruittAnna Seward PruittAnna Pruitt , was born in Tallmadge, Ohio, on May 16, 1862, the daughter of John Woodhouse and Urania Seward. She traveled west in the early 1880s to teach school in Ojai, California; her letters about the trip were later published in the California Historical Quarterly...
– part of the "missionary generation" in America, Southern Baptist missionary who worked with Lottie Moon in North China - C.W. PruittC.W. PruittCicero Washington Pruitt . was among the first Southern Baptist missionaries to Northern China. He was born in Barrettsville, Georgia, on January 31, 1857, the son of John Wesley and Hannah Pruitt. He was ordained as a Southern Baptist minister at the age of 14 and began his evangelical work by...
– husband and fellow Southern Baptist missionary to North China
Plymouth Brethren
- Anthony Norris GrovesAnthony Norris GrovesAnthony Norris Groves has been described as the "father of faith missions". He launched the first Protestant mission to Arabic-speaking Muslims, and settled in Baghdad, now the capital of Iraq, and later in southern India. His ideas influenced a circle of friends who became leaders in the Plymouth...
- George MüllerGeorge MüllerGeorge Müller , a Christian evangelist and Director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England, cared for 10,024 orphans in his life...
– preached in various countries - Jim ElliotJim ElliotPhilip James Elliot was an evangelical Christian who was one of five missionaries killed while participating in Operation Auca, an attempt to evangelize the Waodani people of Ecuador.-Early life:...
– Missionary to Ecuador - Christian Rockwood-Bong – Missionary to Nova Scotia
Congregationalists
- William Scott AmentWilliam Scott AmentWilliam Scott Ament was a missionary to China for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1877, and was known as the "Father of Christian Endeavor in China." Ament became prominent as a result of his heroism during the Boxer Uprising and controversial...
Controversial missionary to China. - David BogueDavid BogueDavid Bogue was a British nonconformist leader.-Life:He was born in the parish of Coldingham, Berwickshire, Scotland. After a course of study in Edinburgh, he was licensed to preach by the Church of Scotland, but made his way to London in 1771, to teach in schools at Edmonton, Hampstead and...
– Missionary to India, convert from Church of ScotlandChurch of ScotlandThe Church of Scotland, known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is a Presbyterian church, decisively shaped by the Scottish Reformation.... - Hedley BuntonHedley BuntonHedley Percival Bunton was a missionary in China and a Minister in the Congregational Church in Australia.-Birth & education:Hedley Percival Bunton was born at Devonport, Tasmania on 18 January 1906. His parents were Alphonso Robert Bunton and Isobel Bunton née Filleul.He graduated from Melbourne...
– Twentieth century missionary in China who lived under Japanese occupation for a time - Samuel DyerSamuel DyerSamuel Dyer 台約爾 , was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China in the Congregationalist tradition, who worked among the Chinese in Malaysia. He arrived in Penang in 1827. Dyer, his wife Maria, and their family lived in Malacca and then finally in Singapore...
– In 19th c. China - William Ellis (author)William Ellis (author)William Ellis was an English missionary and author. He traveled through the Society Islands, Hawaiian Islands and Madagascar, and wrote several books describing his experiences.- Early life :...
– Missionary to the South Pacific and an author - Cyrus HamlinCyrus HamlinCyrus Hamlin was an American Congregational missionary and educator, the father of A. D. F. Hamlin....
– American missionary in TurkeyTurkeyTurkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe... - David LivingstoneDavid LivingstoneDavid Livingstone was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. His meeting with H. M. Stanley gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr...
– Missionary and explorer in Africa - Walter Henry MedhurstWalter Henry MedhurstWalter Henry Medhurst , was an English Congregationalist missionary to China, born in London and educated at St Paul's School, was one of the early translators of the Bible into Chinese language editions.-Early life:...
– Revised versions of the Bible for his mission in China - Robert MoffatRobert MoffatRobert Moffat was a Scottish Congregationalist missionary to Africa, and father in law of David Livingstone....
– Scottish missionary to Africa - Peter Parker (physician)Peter Parker (physician)Peter Parker was an American physician and a missionary who introduced Western medical techniques into Qing Dynasty China. It was said that Parker "opened China to the gospel at the point of a lancet."- Early life :...
– Missionary and doctor in nineteenth c. China - Betsey StocktonBetsey StocktonBetsey Stockton , sometimes spelled Betsy Stockton, was an African American educator and missionary.-Life:She was born into slavery in the Princeton, New Jersey, about the year 1798....
- Missionary to Hawaii; a freed slave that was the first American single woman to go on a foreign mission - L. E. ThrelkeldL. E. ThrelkeldThe Reverend Lancelot Edward Threlkeld was an English missionary.Threlkeld was son of Samuel Joseph Threlkeld, was born in England. He was well educated, and in 1814 the London Missionary Society accepted him as a missionary to the heathen...
– Linguist and missionary linked to the Lake MacquarieLake MacquarieThe City of Lake Macquarie is a Local Government Area in New South Wales, Australia, approximately north of Sydney. It is immediately adjacent to the city of Newcastle and was proclaimed as a city from 7 September 1984.-The City of Lake Macquarie:...
mission - John Williams (missionary)John Williams (missionary)John Williams was an English missionary, active in the South Pacific. Born near London, England, he was trained as a foundry worker and mechanic...
– Congregationalist in the South Pacific
Methodist
- Young John AllenYoung John AllenYoung John Allen was an American Methodist missionary in late Qing Dynasty China with the American Southern Methodist Episcopal Mission. He is best known in China by his local name Lin Yuezhi ....
– Missionary in Qing China - Francis BurnsFrancis BurnsFrancis Burns was an American Methodist minster who served as a missionary in Liberia. He was the first Missionary Bishop, and the first African American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church ....
– Missionary to Liberia - Thomas Coke (Methodist)
- Sioeli NauSioeli Nau (Wesleyan Missionary)Sioeli Nau or Joel Nau , He was the son of Luisa Lauaki and Filipe 'Onevela. His also the grandson of Matapule Lauaki the Nima Tapu.-Origin of his name:...
– Missionary work in Fiji and Tonga - Francis Dunlap GamewellFrancis Dunlap GamewellFrancis Dunlap Gamewell was a Methodist missionary in China. He was the Chief of the Fortifications Committee in the Siege of the Legations during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 and was one of the heroes of the siege.-Early life:Frank Gamewell was the son of an inventor and he inherited the aptitude...
Chief of Fortification, Boxer Rebellion, China - George Richmond GroseGeorge Richmond GroseGeorge Richmond Grose was an American academic administrator and a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1924, serving as a Missionary Bishop in China.-Family:...
– Missionary to China - Joseph Crane HartzellJoseph Crane HartzellJoseph Crane Hartzell 1 June 1842 – 6 September 1929) was an American Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church who served in the United States and in Africa. He was elected in 1896.-Early life and family:...
– Missionary work in Africa - E. Stanley JonesE. Stanley JonesE. Stanley Jones was a 20th century Methodist Christian missionary and theologian.He is remembered chiefly for his interreligious lectures to the educated classes in India, thousands of which were held across the Indian subcontinent during the first decades of the 20th century...
– Missionary to India - Pilipo MiriyePilipo MiriyePilipo Miriye was the first Evangelical missionary from Papua New Guinea to the country of Nigeria, West Africa. Under his ministry, Miriye was involved with his missionary colleagues in founding the Wesley International Bible College in 1989 in the Imo State of Nigeria...
– Missionary to Nigeria - Walter Russell LambuthWalter Russell LambuthWalter Russell Lambuth was a Chinese-born American Methodist Bishop who worked as a missionary establishing schools and hospitals in China, Korea and Japan in the 1880s.-Birth and Family:...
– Established missionary schools and hospitals in East Asia - J. P. Martin – Children's book writer and missionary in Africa
- Dorothy RipleyDorothy RipleyDorothy Ripley was an English missionary and writer who spent thirty years in the United States trying to secure better conditions for the slaves...
– Missionary to the US - Samuel Evans RoweSamuel Evans RoweThe Reverend Samuel Evans Rowe was a minister who reached high rank in the Methodist church before a distinguished period as a missionary in South Africa, holding senior posts in the church, and founding an educational institution for girls.-Early life:He was born in Midsomer Norton, Somerset,...
– Missionary work in Africa - Isaiah Benjamin ScottIsaiah Benjamin ScottIsaiah Benjamin Scott or I.B. Scott was an American theologian, educator, and journalist.Scott was an ordained Methodist Episcopal reverend and elder; and was active in the leadership of the denomination...
– African-American missionary to Liberia - George WhitefieldGeorge WhitefieldGeorge Whitefield , also known as George Whitfield, was an English Anglican priest who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain, and especially in the British North American colonies. He was one of the founders of Methodism and of the evangelical movement generally...
– Missionary/evangelist to colonial US - John WesleyJohn WesleyJohn Wesley was a Church of England cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley is largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching in a similar manner to George Whitefield...
– Missionary/evangelist in Europe and America
Moravian
- Anna NitschmannAnna NitschmannAnna Caritas Nitschmann was a Moravian Brethren missionary , lyrical poetess, and the second wife of Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf. She served as the Chief Eldress of the Renewed Moravian Church for most of her life, beginning at the young age of 14...
– Moravian missionary - David Nitschmann der BischofDavid Nitschmann der BischofDavid Nitschmann der Bischof was with Johann Leonhard Dober one of the two first missionaries of the Moravian Brethren in the West Indies in 1732, and the first Bishop of the Renewed Unitas Fratrum, the Moravian Church...
– Moravian bishop and missionary in Pennsylvania - August Gottlieb SpangenbergAugust Gottlieb SpangenbergAugust Gottlieb Spangenberg was a German theologian and minister, and a bishop of the Moravian Brethren. As successor of Count Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, he helped develop international missions, as well as stabilize the theology and organization of the German Moravian Church.-Early life and...
head of the Moravian Church in America in its early days - David ZeisbergerDavid ZeisbergerDavid Zeisberger was a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native Americans in the Thirteen Colonies...
– Moravian missionary known for his role in the history of the Christian MunseeChristian MunseeThe Christian Munsee were a group of Lenape native American Indians, primarily Munsee-speaking, who converted to Christianity, following the teachings of the Moravian missionaries... - Nicolas Ludwig Count von ZinzendorfNicolaus Ludwig ZinzendorfNikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, Imperial Count of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf, , German religious and social reformer and bishop of the Moravian Church, was born at Dresden....
, Renewer of the Moravian Church
Presbyterian
- Sir William James WanlessWilliam James WanlessSir William James Wanless, M.D., F.A.C.S. was a Canadian born surgeon, humanitarian and Presbyterian missionary who founded a medical mission in Miraj, India in 1894 and led it for nearly 40 years...
M.D.Doctor of MedicineDoctor of Medicine is a doctoral degree for physicians. The degree is granted by medical schools...
, F.A.C.S founded the first missionary medical school in India in 1897. - Hunter CorbettHunter CorbettDr. Hunter Corbett was a pioneer American missionary to Yantai, Shandong China, he served with the American Presbyterian Mission...
pioneer American missionary to Yantai, Shandong China and Moderator of the General Assembly 1906 - William Chalmers BurnsWilliam Chalmers BurnsWilliam Chalmers Burns was a Scottish Evangelist and Missionary to China with the English Presbyterian Mission who originated from Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire. He was the coordinator of the Overseas missions for the English Presbyterian church...
– Missionary to China - Alexander Duff – Missionary in India
- Samuel KirklandSamuel KirklandRev. Samuel Kirkland was a Presbyterian missionary among the Oneida and Tuscarora people in North America. Kirkland graduated from Princeton in 1765. On September 20, 1769, Samuel Kirkland married Jerusha Bingham in Windham, Connecticut...
– American Revolution figure who did missionary work among the Tuscarora - Eric LiddellEric LiddellEric Henry Liddell was a Scottish athlete, rugby union international player, and missionary.Liddell was the winner of the men's 400 metres at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris...
– Olympic athlete who became a Scottish missionary in China - Alexander Murdoch MackayAlexander Murdoch MackayAlexander Murdoch Mackay was a Presbyterian missionary to Uganda. He studied at the Free Church Training School for Teachers at Edinburgh, then at Edinburgh University, and finally at Berlin...
– Presbyterian missionary to Uganda - George Leslie MackayGeorge Leslie MackayGeorge Leslie Mackay was the first Presbyterian missionary to northern Formosa . He served with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission. Mackay is among the best known Westerners to have lived in Taiwan.-Early life:...
– Among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan - James Laidlaw MaxwellJames Laidlaw MaxwellJames Laidlaw Maxwell Senior was the first Presbyterian missionary to Taiwan . He served with the English Presbyterian Mission....
– Also among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan - Robert Morrison – The first Protestant missionary in China
- John Gibson PatonJohn Gibson PatonRev. Dr. John Gibson Paton , born in Scotland, was a Protestant missionary to the New Hebrides Islands of the South Pacific. Paton undertook a tremendous work which would yield little fruit for decades, convinced of the absolute sovereignty of God to build his church...
– Scottish missionary to "the New HebridesNew HebridesNew Hebrides was the colonial name for an island group in the South Pacific that now forms the nation of Vanuatu. The New Hebrides were colonized by both the British and French in the 18th century shortly after Captain James Cook visited the islands...
" (now part of VanuatuVanuatuVanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.Vanuatu was...
) - Mary SlessorMary SlessorMary Mitchell Slessor was a Scottish missionary to Nigeria.Her determined work and strong personality allowed her to be trusted and accepted by the locals, spreading Christianity and promoting women's rights.-Early life:...
– Scottish Presbyterian missionary in Nigeria - Absalom SydenstrickerAbsalom SydenstrickerAbsalom Sydenstricker was an American Presbyterian missionary to China from 1880 to 1931. The Sydenstricker log house at the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia was Absalom's early childhood home....
– Presbyterian missionary to China, father of Pearl S. BuckPearl S. BuckPearl Sydenstricker Buck also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu , was an American writer who spent most of her time until 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932... - Bill MajorsBill MajorsBill Majors is an American Christian missionary to South Korea. He is the pastor of the International Worship in English of Young Nak Presbyterian Church in Seoul. He arrived in Korea at the age of 21 in 1982 and began working for Young Nak Presbyterian Church in 1988. He founded IWE in 1998 with...
– American missionary in Korea - John Lawrence GoheenJohn Lawrence GoheenJohn Lawrence Goheen was an American missionary, educator, administrator, agriculturist, social worker, and writer who spent most of his career working in India. He made a major contribution to literacy through the Bombay Literacy Campaign of 1939. He established Adult Education Associations in...
Presbyterian missionary, administer of IchalkaranjiIchalkaranjiIchalkaranji is located at . It has an average elevation of 538 metres .Ichalkaranji , lies in the Pancaganga valley about eighteen miles east of Kolhapur and half a mile north of the river. It is six miles southeast of Hatkanangale railway station...
state of British India. - Dr. Mattie B Tate 2nd Presbyterian US missionary to Korea (Chonju, Korea)
Other Protestant
- Paul Wilson Brand – Missionary surgeon in India
- Jonathan Edwards
- Hans EgedeHans EgedeHans Poulsen Egede was a Norwegian-Danish Lutheran missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland. He established a successful mission among the Inuit and is credited with revitalizing Dano-Norwegian interest in the island after contact...
– Norwegian Lutheran missionary called "The Apostle of GreenlandGreenlandGreenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...
" - Aril EdvardsenAril EdvardsenAril Snorre Edvardsen was a Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary, considered one of the most influential Christian figures of all time from Scandinavia....
– Norwegian evangelicalEvangelismEvangelism refers to the practice of relaying information about a particular set of beliefs to others who do not hold those beliefs. The term is often used in reference to Christianity....
preacherPreacherPreacher is a term for someone who preaches sermons or gives homilies. A preacher is distinct from a theologian by focusing on the communication rather than the development of doctrine. Others see preaching and theology as being intertwined...
and missionaryMissionaryA missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to do evangelism or ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care and economic development. The word "mission" originates from 1598 when the Jesuits sent members abroad, derived from the Latin... - Torill Selsvold NyborgTorill Selsvold NyborgTorill Selsvold Nyborg is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party, since 2003 county mayor of Hordaland....
– Norwegian Lutheran missionary in ArequipaArequipaArequipa is the capital city of the Arequipa Region in southern Peru. With a population of 836,859 it is the second most populous city of the country...
from 1977 to 1982 - Reinhard BonnkeReinhard BonnkeReinhard Bonnke is a German charismatic Christian evangelist, principally known for his Great Gospel Crusades throughout the Continent of Africa.-Early life:...
– German charismatic ChristianChristianA Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
evangelistEvangelismEvangelism refers to the practice of relaying information about a particular set of beliefs to others who do not hold those beliefs. The term is often used in reference to Christianity.... - John Eliot (missionary)John Eliot (missionary)John Eliot was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians. His efforts earned him the designation “the Indian apostle.”-English education and Massachusetts ministry:...
– Puritan missionary to the American Indians - Leung Faat – Chinese convert who did missionary work in Southeast Asia and his homeland
- James LeggeJames LeggeJames Legge was a noted Scottish sinologist, a Scottish Congregationalist, representative of the London Missionary Society in Malacca and Hong Kong , and first professor of Chinese at Oxford University...
– SinologistSinologySinology in general use is the study of China and things related to China, but, especially in the American academic context, refers more strictly to the study of classical language and literature, and the philological approach...
and missionary to China - Ludwig Ingwer NommensenLudwig Ingwer NommensenLudwig Ingwer Nommensen was a German Lutheran missionary to Sumatra who also translated the New Testament into the native Batak language. Stephen Neill, a historian of missions, considered Nommensen one of the greatest missionaries of all time...
– Lutheran missionary to SumatraSumatraSumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the sixth largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 with a population of 50,365,538... - Helen RoseveareHelen RoseveareDr. Helen Roseveare was an English Christian missionary to the Congo from 1953 to 1973. She went to the Congo through WEC International and practised medicine and also trained others in medical work. She stayed through the hostile and dangerous political instability in the early...
– Missionary physician in the Congo - John Smith (missionary)John Smith (missionary)John Smith was a missionary whose experiences in the West Indies attracted the attention of the anti-slavery campaigner, William Wilberforce.-Biography:...
– West Indies - Hudson TaylorHudson TaylorJames Hudson Taylor , was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission . Taylor spent 51 years in China...
– Missionary in China - Jason FrennJason FrennJason Frenn is an international evangelist, author, and conference speaker, whose live ministry events have attracted a cumulative worldwide audience of over 3 million people. As a bilingual evangelist, he is widely known throughout the Spanish-speaking areas in the United States and Latin America...
– Contemporary missionary to Latin America - Johannes Maas – Founder and current president of Worldwide Faith MissionsWorldwide Faith MissionsWorldwide Faith Missions is a non-governmental international Christian relief and development church missionary organization based in the United States of America with mission branches in India, Burma , and Thailand. It is a part of the worldwide missions church movement.- History:Worldwide Faith...
Other Christian
- Sigurd BratlieSigurd BratlieSigurd Rudolf Gudbrandsen Bratlie was the leader of Brunstad Christian Church from 1976 until his death in 1996.Bratlie was born in Nordstrand, Norway and was the youngest of nine children....
– Brunstad Christian Church - Stephen GrelletStephen GrelletStephen Grellet was a prominent French Quaker missionary.He was born Étienne de Grellet du Mabillier in Limoges, the son to a counsellor of King Louis XVI. Raised as a Roman Catholic he was educated at the military College of Lyons, and at the age of seventeen he entered the body-guard of Louis XVI...
– Quaker missionary - Thomas R. KellyThomas R. KellyThomas Raymond Kelly was an American Quaker educator. He taught and wrote on the subject of mysticism. His books are widely read, especially by people interested in spirituality....
– Quaker - Raphael MorganRaphael MorganVery Rev. Raphael Morgan was a Jamaican-American priest of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, designated as "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies, later the founder and superior of the Order of the Cross of Golgotha, and thought to be the first Black Orthodox clergyman in America.He spoke...
– Greek Orthodox. - Robert PierceRobert PierceRobert Pierce is best known as the founder of the international charity organization World Vision in 1950...
– founder, World VisionWorld VisionWorld Vision, founded in the USA in 1950, is an evangelical relief and development organization whose stated goal is "to follow our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of... - Heidi BakerHeidi BakerHeidi Baker is a Christian missionary and with her husband Rolland co-founder of IRIS Ministries and the author of several books.With her husband Rolland, Heidi founded IRIS Ministries in 1980, a non-profit Christian ministry dedicated to Jesus and service, especially among the poor...
– co-founder IRIS ministries - Terje Liverod – co-founder World Outreach Ministries
- John & Perla Sweeney – Missionaries to Haiti with Christian Haitian Outreach