Skip to main content
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity Home Home
中文 (简体) 中文 (繁體)

Collections

Holy Trinity Church Shanghai China

Anglican and Episcopal Missionaries

These are the stories of Anglican and Episcopal missionaries who brought the gospel to the people of China.

BDCC Amy Wilkinson

Amy Wilkinson (1868-1949) and George Wilkinson (1865-1951)

1868 — 1949

Amy was a pioneer educator of the blind in China. George was a medical missionary who founded the Foochow (Fuzhou) Mission Hospital.
BDCC Roland Allen

Roland Allen

1868 — 1947

Anglican missionary to China; writer; critic of Western missions; proponent of a new way to “do” church and missions.
BDCC Schereschewsky

Samuel Schereschewsky

1831 — 1906

First translator of the Old Testament into Mandarin and Easy Wenli, elected Bishop of China for the Anglican church.
BDCC William Jones Boone

William Jones Boone

1811 — 1864

The first Episcopalian missionary bishop of China and Japan, and the first bishop of China outside the Roman tradition.
BDCC William Cassels 1

William Wharton Cassels (part 1 of 3)

1858 — 1925

A member of the famed “Cambridge Seven” who joined the China Inland Mission in 1885; pioneer evangelist; Anglican missionary bishop of Western China (Sichuan). One of the foremost missionaries of his time, who possessed great gifts of organization, he understood the Chinese and was held in great veneration by them.
BDCC William Wharton Cassels 2

William Wharton Cassels (part 2 of 3)

1858 — 1925

A member of the famed “Cambridge Seven” who joined the China Inland Mission in 1885; pioneer evangelist; Anglican missionary bishop of Western China (Sichuan). One of the foremost missionaries of his time, who possessed great gifts of organization, he understood the Chinese and was held in great veneration by them.
BDCC William Cassels 1

William Wharton Cassels (part 3 of 3)

1858 — 1925

A member of the famed “Cambridge Seven” who joined the China Inland Mission in 1885; pioneer evangelist; Anglican missionary bishop of Western China (Sichuan). One of the foremost missionaries of his time, who possessed great gifts of organization, he understood the Chinese and was held in great veneration by them.