Missionaries in India
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Early missionaries
- Thomas the ApostleThomas the ApostleThomas the Apostle, also called Doubting Thomas or Didymus was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is best known for questioning Jesus' resurrection when first told of it, then proclaiming "My Lord and my God" on seeing Jesus in . He was perhaps the only Apostle who went outside the Roman...
. - Saint Bartholomew
- St. Francis Xavier.
- Roberto de NobiliRoberto de NobiliRoberto de Nobili was an Italian Jesuit missionary to Southern India. He used a novel method of adaptation to preach Christianity, adopting many local customs of India which were, in his view, not contrary to Christianity.Born in Montepulciano, Tuscany in September 1577, Roberto de Nobili arrived...
. - Edward H Noel. (Founder of Noel Memorial Schools in Kerala, India.)
Protestant missionaries
These include:- Paul Olaf BoddingPaul Olaf BoddingPaul Olaf Bodding was a Norwegian missionary, linguist and folklorist. He served in India for 44 years , and operated mainly from the town Dumka in the Santhal Parganas-district...
. - Paul Wilson Brand.
- Dame Edith Mary BrownDame Edith Mary BrownDame Edith Mary Brown, OBE, LRCP, LRCS , LRFPS was the founder of the Christian Medical College Ludhiana, the first medical training facility for woman in Asia.Brown was born in Whitehaven in 1864...
. - William Carey.
- Amy CarmichaelAmy CarmichaelAmy Wilson Carmichael was a Protestant Christian missionary in India, who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur...
. - Alexander Crawford - first presbyterian missionary to India (1823-29)
- Alexander Duff.
- James Glasgow (1805-90) - early missionary from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. (1841-1864)See: PRONI files.
- Alexander Kerr - early missionary from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. (1841-184?)
- Anthony Norris GrovesAnthony Norris GrovesAnthony Norris Groves has been described as the "father of faith missions". He launched the first Protestant mission to Arabic-speaking Muslims, and settled in Baghdad, now the capital of Iraq, and later in southern India. His ideas influenced a circle of friends who became leaders in the Plymouth...
. - Lyman JewettLyman JewettLyman Jewett DD was an American Baptist missionary and first translator of the Bible into Telugu....
- James LongJames Long (Anglican priest)James Long was an Anglo-Irish priest of the Anglican Church. A humanist, educator, evangelist, translator, essayist, philanthropist and a missionary to India, he resided in the city of Calcutta, India, from 1840 to 1872 as a member of the Church Mission Society, leading the mission at...
- Dr Johannes Maas founder, Worldwide Faith MissionsWorldwide Faith MissionsWorldwide Faith Missions is a non-governmental international Christian relief and development church missionary organization based in the United States of America with mission branches in India, Burma , and Thailand. It is a part of the worldwide missions church movement.- History:Worldwide Faith...
- Carl Caeser Menge (1811 - 1885), Missionary in Nasik
- John Philippp Menge (1815 - 1878), Missionary in Gorakhpur
- John Christian Frederick HeyerJohn Christian Frederick HeyerJohn Christian Frederick Heyer was the first missionary sent abroad by Lutherans in the United States. He founded the Guntur Mission in Andhra Pradesh, India...
. - John Nelson HydeJohn Nelson HydeJohn Nelson Hyde was an American missionary who preached in the Punjab.Born in Illinois, the son of a Presbyterian minister. This minister prayed that God would raise up more missionaries. John Hyde passed college and became a member of the faculty. Strangly, he resigned and entered into McCormick...
. - Samuel H. KelloggSamuel H. KelloggDr Samuel Henry Kellogg was an American Presbyterian missionary in India who played the major role in revising and retranslating the Hindi Bible...
, translator of Hindi Bible - Joshua Marshman.
- Henry MartynHenry MartynHenry Martyn was an Anglican priest and missionary to the peoples of India and Persia. Born in Truro, Cornwall, he was educated at Truro Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. A chance encounter with Charles Simeon led him to become a missionary...
. - Donald McGavranDonald McGavranDonald A. McGavran was the founding Dean and Professor of Mission, church growth, and South Asian studies at the School of World Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California...
. - V. NagelV. NagelVolbrecht Nagel, commonly known as V. Nagel, was a German missionary to the Malabar coast of India.-Birth and Early Years:Volbrecht Nagel was born on 3 November 1867 in Hesse, North German Confederation. He grew up in a pious family, but lost his parents at a young age...
- George Uglow PopeGeorge Uglow PopeGeorge Uglow Pope popularly known as Rev. G.U. Pope or G.U. Pope was a Christian missionary who spent many years in Tamil Nadu and translated many Tamil texts into English. His popular translations include Tirukkural and Tiruvachagam. His efforts were recognized by the Royal Asiatic Society in the...
. - Ida S. ScudderIda S. ScudderDr. Ida Sophia Scudder was a third-generation American medical missionary in India of the Reformed Church in America. She dedicated her life to the plight of Indian women and the fight against bubonic plague, cholera and leprosy., In 1918 she started one of Asia's foremost Teaching hospitals,...
. - Lars Olsen SkrefsrudLars Olsen SkrefsrudLars Olsen Skrefsrud was a Norwegian missionary and language researcher in India. Together with Hans Peter Børresen he is regarded as the founder of the Norwegian missionary organization Santalmisjonen...
. - Graham StainesGraham StainesDr. Graham Stuart Staines was an Australian Christian missionary who along with his two sons Philip and Timothy were burnt to death by a gang while sleeping in his station wagon at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district in Orissa, India on January 1999...
. - Alfred SturgeAlfred SturgeAlfred Sturge was a Baptist missionary and minister who served in Devon, India and Kent.-Ancestry and early life:Alfred Sturge was born at Bishopsgate in London in 1816....
. - William WardWilliam Ward (missionary)William Ward was an English pioneer Baptist missionary, author, printer and translator. On 10 May 1802 he was married at Serampore to the widow of John Fountain, another missionary, by whom he left two daughters.-Early life:...
http://www.wmcarey.edu/carey/wmward/index.html - Rev. C T E Rhenius - First CMS Missionary
- Sister Joyce M WoollardSister Joyce M WoollardSister Joyce Mansfield Woollard was a missionary who served with the London Missionary Society / C.W.M. in Coimbatore Diocese of the Church of South India from 1948 and at Vishranthi Nilayam, Bangalore from 1988...
- E. Stanley JonesE. Stanley JonesE. Stanley Jones was a 20th century Methodist Christian missionary and theologian.He is remembered chiefly for his interreligious lectures to the educated classes in India, thousands of which were held across the Indian subcontinent during the first decades of the 20th century...
- Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg
See also
- List of Roman Catholic missionaries in India
- Mission (Christian)Mission (Christian)Christian missionary activities often involve sending individuals and groups , to foreign countries and to places in their own homeland. This has frequently involved not only evangelization , but also humanitarian work, especially among the poor and disadvantaged...
- Christianity in IndiaChristianity in IndiaChristianity is India's third-largest religion, with approximately 24 million followers, constituting 2.3% of India's population. The works of scholars and Eastern Christian writings and 14th century Portuguese missionaries created an illusion to convert Indians that Christianity was introduced to...
Further reading
- In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V. S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India by Susan Billington Harper.