American Protestant Episcopal Mission

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American Protestant Episcopal Mission was an American Protestant Christian missionary society that was involved in sending workers to countries such as China during the late Qing Dynasty.

Contents 1 American Protestant Episcopal Mission in China 2 References 3 Notes 4 See also

[edit] American Protestant Episcopal Mission in China

The Protestant Episcopal Mission had its head quarters in Shanghai. Following Mr. Lockwood, Rev. W. J. Boone, D.D., went out in 1837 to Batavia. He afterwards removed to Amoy, but in 1843 he was appointed to Shanghai, and made the missionary bishop of China. Speedily, boarding and day schools were established, a medical hospital opened, and Dr. Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky was set apart to prepare a new version of the Bible, in the Mandarin dialect, which he completed in 1875. There was also in Shanghai a medical school for the training of native physicians, surgeons and nurses, and a college for the training of native missionaries. There were other stations at Wuchang, Hankow, Yantai, and Beijing, which, including those at Shanghai, in 1890 comprised forty-three places of worship, ten missionaries, three medical agents, three lady agents, seventeen ordained native ministers, three unordained helpers, and about five hundred communicants. ^[1]

[edit] References

• Townsend, William (1890). Robert Morrison : the pioneer of Chinese missions. London: S.W. Partridge. 

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[edit] See also

• Protestant missionary societies in China during the 19th Century
• Timeline of Chinese history
• 19th Century Protestant Missions in China
• List of Protestant missionaries in China
• Christianity in China