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
- 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
- Dr. Mattie b Tate- second Presbyterian US missionary to Korea ( Chonju, Korea)
[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
- 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) – 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
- Gladys Aylward – Missionary to China and Taiwan
[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
- 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
[edit] Plymouth Brethren
- Anthony Norris Groves
- George Müller – preached in various countries
- Jim Elliot – Missionary to Ecuador
- Christian Rockwood-Bong – Missionary to Nova Scotia
[edit] Congregationalists
- William Scott Ament Controversial missionary to China.
- 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)
- 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
- George Whitefield – Missionary/evangelist to colonial US
- John Wesley– Missionary/evangelist in Europe and America
[edit] Moravian
- 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
[edit] Presbyterian
- Sir William James Wanless M.D., F.A.C.S founded the first missionary medical school in India in 1897.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Bill Majors – American missionary in Korea
- John Lawrence Goheen Presbyterian missionary, administer of Ichalkaranji state of British India.
- Dr. Mattie B Tate 2nd Presbyterian US missionary to Korea (Chonju, Korea)
[edit] 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
- Johannes Maas – Founder and current president of Worldwide Faith Missions
[edit] Other Christian
- Sigurd Bratlie – Brunstad Christian Church
- Stephen Grellet – Quaker missionary
- Thomas R. Kelly – Quaker
- Raphael Morgan – Greek Orthodox.
- Robert Pierce – founder, World Vision
- Heidi Baker – co-founder IRIS ministries
- Terje Liverod – co-founder World Outreach Ministries
- John & Perla Sweeney – Missionaries to Haiti with Christian Haitian Outreach
- Steve Peter & Jenny Ruth Kok – Missionaries in Asia and founder Faith-With-You Christian Ministries
- Samual Morris – Missionary to US.
