John Hind (Bishop in Fukien)

The Right Reverend
Father John Hind
DD, MA Dubl
Bishop of Fukien

The Bishop in the 1920s.
Church Church of Ireland
Orders
Ordination June 24, 1902
Education Trinity College
John Hind
Traditional Chinese 恒約翰
Simplified Chinese 恒约翰

John Hind was a missionary bishop of the Anglican Church in Fukien.

Life

Hind was born in Belfast, Ireland,[1] on 17 February 1879.[2] His grandfather William Marsden Hind (1815–1894) was an archaeologist and botanist.[3] Hind graduated from Trinity College, Dublin (gaining a Trinity Master of Arts) in 1901 and was ordained on June 24, 1902, the Nativity of St. John the Baptist.[4] On October 6 that year he was sent to Foochow, China as part of the Dublin University Mission to Fukien and was stationed at Xiapu.[5]

In 1903 John Hind was appointed an Archdeacon by the Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong, Father Joseph Hoare. On December 15, 1904 he married Miss Alice Carpenter[5] who died in 1908 and he later married his second wife, Winifred, who had trained as a doctor and come out to China as a missionary in 1920.[6]

Hind served in Xiapu until he was appointed in 1911 to Foochow to work at the Anglican Boys' schools. In the next year the Trinity College, Foochow, was founded and he was elected president. In 1918 he was elected Bishop in Fukien.[7] His assistant bishop was the Right Reverend Ding Ing Ong.[8]

The Bishop retired from the mission field in 1940.[9] He became a Doctor of Divinity.

Hind's book Fukien Memories was published in Belfast in 1951. He died on 7 July 1958.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Church of Ireland Overseas Missions
  2. ↑ “Who was Who” 1897–1990 London, A & C Black 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  3. ↑ Barr, W. N. C. (September 20, 1974). "Christ Church Derriaghy: a short history of the parish". Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  4. ↑ The Clergy List. London: Kelly’s, 1913
  5. 1 2 Y. Y. Huang (1972): Streams of Living Water
  6. ↑ Roddy Evans (2005): Glimpses Into the Past: Memoir of an Irish Anglican
  7. ↑ "New Bishop in Fukien" The Times; Saturday, Feb 23, 1918; p. 9; Issue 41721; col. A
  8. ↑ Page 125. Living Church Annual. Morehouse-Gorham Company. 1928. Google Books. Alphabet. Digitized 2009-02-29. Retrieved 2017-06-18.
  9. ↑ Sec. Fukien, Part Eighteen, Section One East Asia Missions, Church Missionary Society Archive.
  10. ↑ The Times, Tuesday, Jul. 08, 1958; p. 10; Issue 54197; col. D Bishop Hind
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Horace Price		 Bishop in Fukien
1918–1940 		Succeeded by
Christopher Sargent
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