List of Christian missionaries

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The following are notable Christian missionaries:

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
• David of Basra– Early missionary to India
• 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

Medieval to modern missionaries

Anglican

• Geoffrey Bingham – Mission in Pakistan
• James Blair (Virginia) — Scottish-born American clergyman in the Virginia Colony, founder of The College of William & Mary
• William Duncan – Worked with the Tsimshians
• James Hannington – Saint in Anglicanism who was killed in Uganda
• Richard Johnson – First Christian cleric in Australia
• Robert Machray – clergyman and missionary and first Primate of the Church of England in Canada
• 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 in West Africa
• Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe – Missionary in Kashmir
• Walter Weston – Missionary to Japan, popularized the term Japanese Alps
• John Burdett Wittenoom – Missionary to Australia
• Gladys Aylward – Missionary to China and Taiwan
• George Whitefield – Missionary/evangelist to colonial US
• John Wesley – Missionary/evangelist in Europe and America
• Samuel Lyde – Misionary to the Alawites of Syria

Baptist

• Lauran Bethell – missionary to Thailand and Eastern Europe
• 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
• George Lisle (Baptist) First American missionary. Served in Jamaica.
• Isaac McCoy Missionary to the American Indians
• Lottie Moon – 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
• Charlotte White – A widow, the first unmarried American female foreign missionary; arrived India 1816.^[1]

Plymouth Brethren

• Anthony Norris Groves
• George Müller – preached in various countries
• Jim Elliot – Missionary to Ecuador

Congregationalists

• William Scott Ament Controversial missionary to China
• David Bogue – Missionary to India, convert from Church of Scotland
• Hedley Bunton – 20th-century missionary in China who lived under Japanese occupation for a time
• Samuel Dyer – In 19th-century China
• William Ellis (author) – Missionary to the South Pacific and an author
• Cynthia Farrar Missionary to India, 1827-1862
• 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 19th-century China
• Betsey Stockton - Missionary to Hawaii; a freed slave who was one of the first American single women 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

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint (Mormon)

• Samuel Smith – Brother to Joseph Smith, first LDS missionary
• Brigham Young – Missionary in British Isles, became 2nd President of the Church
• John Taylor – Missionary in his native country of Britain, became 3rd President of the Church
• Wilford Woodruff – Missionary in British Isles, became 4th President of the Church
• Heber C. Kimball – Missionary in British Isles
• Dan Jones – Missionary in his native country of Wales, translated many materials into Welsh
• Orson Hyde – Missionary across Europe and into the Holy Land
• Parley P. Pratt – Missionary to southern and Midwestern US, Canada, South America
• Joseph F. Smith – Missionary to Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) at age 15
• Matthew Cowley – Missionary to New Zealand's Maori people. Translated the Book of Mormon into Maori

Methodist

• Young John Allen – Missionary in Qing China
• Francis Burns – Missionary to Liberia
• Thomas Coke (Methodist)
• Sioeli Nau – Missionary work in Fiji and Tonga
• Francis Dunlap Gamewell Chief of Fortification, Boxer Rebellion, China
• George Richmond Grose – Missionary to China
• Joseph Crane Hartzell – Missionary work in Africa
• E. Stanley Jones – Missionary to India
• Pilipo Miriye – Missionary to Nigeria
• Walter Russell Lambuth – Established missionary schools and hospitals in East Asia
• J. P. Martin – Children's book writer and missionary in Africa
• Dorothy Ripley – Missionary to the US
• Samuel Evans Rowe– Missionary work in Africa
• Isaiah Benjamin Scott – African-American missionary to Liberia

Moravian

• Christian David Moravian missionary in Greenland, Livland and Pennsylvania
• Anna Nitschmann – Moravian missionary
• David Nitschmann der Bischof – Moravian bishop and missionary in Pennsylvania
• August Gottlieb Spangenberg head of the Moravian Church in America in its early days
• David Zeisberger – Moravian missionary known for his role in the history of the Christian Munsee
• Nicolas Ludwig Count von Zinzendorf, Renewer of the Moravian Church

Presbyterian

• Hunter Corbett – pioneer American missionary to Yantai, Shandong China and Moderator of the General Assembly 1906
• William Chalmers Burns – Missionary to China
• Alexander Duff – Missionary in India
• John Lawrence Goheen – Presbyterian missionary, administer of Ichalkaranji state of British India.
• William Imbrie – American missionary to Japan
• 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^[2]
• George Leslie Mackay – Among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan
• Bill Majors – American missionary in Korea
• James Laidlaw Maxwell – Also among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan
• Robert Morrison – The first Protestant missionary in China
• John Gibson Paton – Scottish missionary to "the New Hebrides" (now part of Vanuatu)
• Mary Slessor – Scottish Presbyterian missionary in Nigeria
• Absalom Sydenstricker – Presbyterian missionary to China, father of Pearl S. Buck
• Sir William James Wanless M.D., F.A.C.S – founded the first missionary medical school in India in 1897.
• Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams – (B. 17 February 1886 / D. December 1971)^[3] Church of Scotland minister, writer and a poet. Aeneas was a missionary in the Eastern Himalayas^[4] and China. He was Bursar at St. Andrew's Colonial Homes (later named Dr. Graham's Homes) in Kalimpong, India, from 1910 - 1923 and Headmaster at the Church of Scotland Mission in Yichang (Ichang),^[5] China, from 1924 - 1927. In 1929, Aeneas returned to India to work as a missionary for the Church of Scotland Guild Mission in Matelli in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal. In 1930, Hymn Book in Jalpaiguri Mech by Aeneas Francon Williams was published. The book was intended for the use of Christians of the Mech Tribes living at the foot of the Himalayas in the Jalpaiguri district and was the first Hymn Book to be published in this regional dialect of Hindi.^[6] Aeneas and his family lived in Matelli until 1947, after which the family returned to Edinburgh in Scotland to live.
• Clara Anne Williams (ne. Rendall) – (B. 24 July 1887 / D. 1959) ^[3] married Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams in Kalimpong, India, in 1914. She was a missionary in the Eastern Himalayas. Clara was a teacher at St. Andrew's Colonial Homes (later named Dr. Graham's Homes) in Kalimpong, India, from 1912 - 1923. With her two children, Alfred Francon Williams and Beatrice Clara Williams, she accompanied her husband Aeneas when he was stationed at the Church of Scotland Mission in Yichang (Ichang), China, where they lived from 1924 - 1927 and in Matelli in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, where the family lived until 1947.

Other Protestant

• Paul Wilson Brand – Missionary surgeon in India
• Jonathan Edwards
• Hans Egede– Norwegian Lutheran missionary called "The Apostle of Greenland"
• Aril Edvardsen – Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary
• Torill Selsvold Nyborg– Norwegian Lutheran missionary in Arequipa from 1977 to 1982
• Reinhard Bonnke – German charismatic Christian evangelist
• 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
• Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen – Lutheran missionary to Sumatra
• Helen Roseveare – Missionary physician in the Congo
• John Smith (missionary) – West Indies
• Hudson Taylor – Missionary in China
• Jason Frenn – Contemporary missionary to Latin America
• J. A. Pérez, Contemporary missionary to Latin America

Other Christian

• Sigurd Bratlie – Brunstad Christian Church
• Stephen Grellet – Quaker missionary
• Thomas R. Kelly – Quaker
• Raphael Morgan – Jamaican-American Greek Orthodox priest, thought to be the first Black Orthodox clergyman in America.
• Robert Pierce – founder, World Vision
• Heidi Baker – co-founder IRIS ministries
• William Burton — Missionary Pioneering in Congo Forests
• Wayman Mitchell - Missionary and Pioneer,founder of Christian Fellowship Ministries

See also

• List of Protestant missionaries in China
• List of Protestant missionaries in India
• List of Roman Catholic Missionaries
• List of Roman Catholic missionaries in China
• List of Roman Catholic missionaries in India
• List of Eastern Orthodox Missionaries
• List of missionaries to Hawaii
• List of missionaries to the South Pacific
• List of Slovenian missionaries
• List of Russian Orthodox missionaries
• List of Protestant Missionaries to Southeast Asia
• List of Eastern Orthodox missionaries
• List of SVD missions
• List of Roman Catholic missions in Africa
• Christian missionaries in New Zealand
• Christian missionaries in Oceania
• Timeline of Christian missions

References