LIST OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES

The following are notable Christian missionaries:

Contents

Early Christian missionaries

Medieval to modern missionaries

Anglican

Baptist

Plymouth Brethren

Congregationalists

Methodist

Moravian

Presbyterian

Other Protestant

Other Christian

See also

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.

Medieval to modern missionaries

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.

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.

★ Modern Day Missionaries-Example [[1]]Missionary Barry Ritchie and Family to Honduras

Plymouth Brethren

★ Anthony Norris Groves

★ George Müller – preached in various countries.

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.

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.

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.

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.

★ John Gibson Paton – Scottish missionary to "the New Hebrides." (now part of Vanuatu)

★ Mary Slessor – Scottish Presbyterian missionary in Nigeria.

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.

★ Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen – Lutheran missionary to Sumatra.

★ Helen Roseveare – Missionary in the Congo.

★ John Smith (missionary) – West Indies.

★ Hudson Taylor – Missionary in China.

Other Christian

★ Johnny Appleseed – Missionary for The New Church.

★ Stephen Grellet – Quaker missionary.

★ Thomas R. Kelly – Quaker.

See also

★ List of Protestant missionaries in China

★ List of Protestant missionaries in India

★ List of Roman Catholic Missionaries

★ List of Eastern Orthodox Missionaries