Several mission societies, including the Baptist Missionary Society, SPCK, LMS, Basel Mission, CMS, SPG, Zenana mission, Medical Mission, American Mission, Danish Mission, and Methodist Mission missionaries have contributed for the progressive Christian community in India. These missionaries have made a vast contributions in the districts of Tinnevelly and Travancore, which covers most of southern India Kerala. These missions were mostly influenced under the direct control of the Church of England.
The following is an incomplete list of Protestant missionaries in India.
Missionaries
- John Anderson – Missionary from Church of Scotland – Founder – Madras Christian College
- Elizabeth Baring-Gould
- B. Baring-Gould – CMS Missionary
- Graham Basanti – women missionary at Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Paul Olaf Bodding
- Paul Wilson Brand
- Edith Mary Brown
- Nathan Brown
- William Tobias Ringeltaube, (1770- ?) – LMS Missionary to south Travancore (first Missionary to South Travancore 1806)
- Robert Caldwell
- Eliza Caldwell – Wife of Robert Caldwell, and Daughter of Rev. Charles Mault
- William Carey
- Amy Carmichael
- Alexander Duff
- James Edward Lesslie Newbigin – Ordained in Church of Scotland; affiliated with the United Reformed Church; served in the Church of South India
- Cynthia Farrar - One of first unmarried women missionaries. Worked as an educator.
- Anthony Norris Groves
- Hermann Gundert – German linguist and Basel missionary to India
- John Christian Frederick Heyer
- Sam Higginbottom
- John Nelson Hyde
- Lyman Jewett
- E. Stanley Jones
- Samuel H. Kellogg – translator of Hindi Bible
- Eugen Liebendörfer – German physician and Basel missionary to India
- James Long – Church Missionary Society missionary
- Joshua Marshman
- Henry Martyn – Church Missionary Society missionary
- Arthur Margoschis – Nazareth, Tamil Nadu – SPG missionary
- Julia Lore McGrew - medical missionary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
- Volbrecht Nagel – German missionary to India
- Jessie Kelp (later Jessie Pigott) in Allahabad and Delhi (1887–9)
- Charles Frederick Reeve-commenced the non-denominational Poona and Indian Village Mission in 1893
- Ida S. Scudder
- Lars Olsen Skrefsrud
- Graham Staines
- Alfred Sturge
- J.M. Strachan – Medical Mission at Nazareth, Tamil Nadu – SPG missionary – Bishop of Rangoon
- Ralph T. Templin
- Henry Constantine Huxtable – SPG missionary at Sawyerpuram and Christianagaram
- Reginald Heber – Bishop of Calcutta
- Christian Friedrich Schwarz – German S.P.C.K. Missionary
- William Miller – Missionary from Church of Scotland – Madras Christian College
- George Trevor Spencer (Wikisource) – Lord Bishop of Madras
- Donald McGavran
- V. Nagel
- J. Waskom Pickett
- George Uglow Pope
- C. T. E. Rhenius – first Church Missionary Society missionary
- George Pettitt – Church Missionary Society missionary
- Bishop Edward Sargent – Church Missionary Society missionary
- Heinrich Plütschau
- Benjamin Schultze – Translated and printed Old Testament – Bible, in Tamil.
- Peter Percival – Wesleyan Methodist Mission
- Robert Turlington Noble – Founder of Noble College, Machilipatnam
- Hopestill Pillow – Zenana Missionary to India
- William Arthur Stanton – American Baptist Missionary in South Indian town of Kurnool of Andhra Pradesh.
- William Ward
- Charlotte White – first unmarried American woman missionary
- H. U. Weitbrecht – Church Missionary Society missionary, author of "The Revision of the Urdu New Testament"
- Joyce M. Woollard
- Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg
See also
References
- Church of South India, Tirunelveli Diocese. "Missionaries".
- Gore, David. "Faith and Family in South India".
- Bickers, Robert (2004-09-23). "Pigott [née Kemp], (Emily) Jessie (1851–1900), missionary". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1 (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/49154. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- "Rev. William Ward / Home page".
Further reading
- In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V. S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India by Susan Billington Harper
External links
- Mission India
- Literary contributions of select list of Tamil scholars from overseas
- Google Books website, A History of Christianity in India: 1707-1858, by Bishop Stephen Neill
- Google Books website, The Missionary conference: south India and Ceylon, 1879, Volume 2
- Anglican History website, Our Oldest Indian Mission: A Brief History of the Vepery (Madras) Mission, by The Rev. A. WESTCOTT, M.A. (1897) (online copy)