List of Christian Missionaries
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The following are notable Christian missionaries:
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[edit] Early Christian missionaries
These are missionaries that predate the Second Council of Nicaea so it may be claimed by both Catholic and Orthodoxy or belonging to an early Christian groups.
- Alopen – First missionary to China (Nestorian)
- Augustine of Canterbury – Missionary to England.
- Apollos
- Saint Barnabas
- Saint Boniface – Influential in the conversion of German peoples.
- Brieuc
- Columba – Early missionary to Scotland.
- Denis – Early missionary to France.
- Frumentius – Early missionary to Ethiopia.
- Saint Kilian – Irish missionary killed in Franconia.
- Mark the Evangelist
- Saint Patrick – Early missionary to Ireland.
- Paul of Tarsus
- Pantaenus – Early missionary to India.
- Twelve Apostles – All of the twelve are considered missionaries at some level.
- Ulfilas – Missionary to the Goths.
[edit] Medieval to modern missionaries
[edit] Anglican
- Geoffrey Bingham – Mission in Pakistan.
- James Blair (clergyman)
- William Duncan (missionary) – Worked with the Tsimshians.
- James Hannington – Saint in Anglicanism who was killed in Uganda.
- Samuel Marsden – Missionary to Australia.
- Henry Martyn – Missionary to India.
- William Mitchell (Reverend) – Missionary to India.
- Charles William Pearson – Pioneer of the Church of Uganda.
- Henry Townsend (missionary) – Missionary in West Africa.
- Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe – He worked in Kashmir.
- Walter Weston – Missionary to Japan, popularized the term Japanese Alps.
- John Burdett Wittenoom – Missionary to Australia.
[edit] Baptist
- John Birch (missionary) – Baptist missionary killed in China.
- Joseph Booth – Missionary to what is now Malawi.
- William Carey – Linked to India and a founder of the Baptist Missionary Society
- Issachar Jacox Roberts – Baptist missionary who, at first unintentionally, inspired Hong Xiuquan.
- Adoniram Judson – 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 Judson – wife of Adoniram whose writings home made the couple celebrities
- Lottie Moon – famous Southern Baptist missionary to China. The Lottie Moon Christmas offering is still an important event in the Southern Baptist calendar.
- Anna Seward Pruitt – part of the "missionary generation" in America, Southern Baptist missionary who worked with Lottie Moon in North China.
- C.W. Pruitt – husband and fellow Southern Baptist missionary to North China.
[edit] Congregationalists
- David Bogue – Missionary to India, convert from Church of Scotland.
- Hedley Bunton – Twentieth century missionary in China who lived under Japanese occupation for a time.
- Samuel Dyer – In 19th c. China.
- William Ellis (author) – Missionary to the South Pacific and an author.
- Cyrus Hamlin – American missionary in Turkey.
- David Livingstone – Missionary and explorer in Africa.
- Walter Henry Medhurst – Revised versions of the Bible for his mission in China.
- Robert Moffat – Scottish missionary to Africa.
- Peter Parker (physician) – Missionary and doctor in nineteenth c. China.
- Betsey Stockton - Missionary to Hawaii; a freed slave that was the first American single woman to go on a foreign mission
- L. E. Threlkeld – Linguist and missionary linked to the Lake Macquarie mission.
- John Williams (missionary) – Congregationalist in the South Pacific.
[edit] Methodist
- Young John Allen – Missionary in Qing China.
- Francis Burns – Missionary to Liberia.
- Thomas Coke (Methodist)
- George Richmond Grose – Missionary to China.
- Joseph Crane Hartzell – Missionary work in Africa.
- E. Stanley Jones – Missionary to India.
- Walter Russell Lambuth – Established missionary schools and hospitals in East Asia.
- J.P. Martin – Children's book writer.
- Dorothy Ripley – Missionary to the US.
- Isaiah Benjamin Scott – African-American missionary to Liberia.
- George Whitefield – Missionary/evangelist to colonial US.
[edit] Moravian
- Anna Nitschmann – Moravian missionary.
- David Nitschmann der Bischof – Moravian bishop and missionary in Pennsylvania.
- David Zeisberger – Moravian missionary known for his role in the history of the Christian Munsee.
Note: Although they are a relatively small denomination missionary work to American Indians and others is important to their history.
[edit] Presbyterian
- William Chalmers Burns – Missionary to China.
- Alexander Duff – Missionary in India.
- Samuel Kirkland – American Revolution figure who did missionary work among the Tuscarora.
- Eric Liddell – Olympic athlete who became a Scottish missionary in China.
- Alexander Murdoch Mackay – Presbyterian missionary to Uganda.
- George Leslie Mackay – Among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan.
- James Laidlaw Maxwell – Also among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan.
- Robert Morrison – The first Protestant missionary in China.
- Mary Slessor – Scottish Presbyterian missionary in Nigeria.
[edit] Other Protestant
- Jonathan Edwards
- Hans Egede – Norwegian Lutheran missionary called "The Apostle of Greenland."
- John Eliot (missionary) – Puritan missionary to the American Indians.
- Leung Faat – Chinese convert who did missionary work in Southeast Asia and his homeland.
- James Legge – Sinologist and missionary to China.
- George Müller – Plymouth Brethren member who preached in various countries.
- Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen – Lutheran missionary to Sumatra.
- John Gibson Paton – Scottish missionary to "the New Hebrides." (now part of Vanuatu)
- Helen Roseveare – Missionary in the Congo.
- John Smith (missionary) – West Indies.
- Hudson Taylor – Missionary in China.
[edit] Other Christian
- Johnny Appleseed – Missionary for The New Church.
- Stephen Grellet – Quaker missionary.
- Thomas R. Kelly – Quaker.
