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Samuel Hugh Moffett

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Samuel Hugh Moffett

Henry Winters Luce Emeritus Professor of Ecumenics and Mission, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Alopen

Alopen

第七世紀

The first recorded Christian missionary to have reached China, during the Tang Dynasty.
Montecorvino John

John of Montecorvino

1247 — 1328

First Roman Catholic missionary to reach China proper and first bishop of Khanbaliq (Beijing).
Thomas Robert Jermain

Robert Jermain Thomas

1839 — 1866

Missionary to China and Bible distributer in hostile Korea, becoming the first Protestant martyr in Korea.