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Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
Stories of Chinese Christianity

Introduction to the BDCC Project
Background

Christianity has an ancient history in China, dating back at least to 635 A.D. when an official mission of the Church of the East was invited to the Tang court. The first Roman Catholic presence was recorded in the 13th-century; the Russian Orthodox faith entered China in the late 17th-century and Protestantism with Robert Morrison in 1807.

One hundred fifty years later, Chinese Christians numbered about 1,700,000. During the past fifty years, Christians in China have not merely survived severe persecution, but have multiplied themselves many times, with estimates ranging from fifty to a hundred million. Christianity has spread its influence in Chinese communities around the world, where Chinese churches are growing rapidly.
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• David Abeel - 1804 ~ 1846 - Pioneer American missionary to China. - Affiliation: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions | Locales: Guangzhou, Xiamen
• David Howard Adeney - 1911 ~ 1994 - Missionary and university evangelist in China and East Asia. - Affiliations: China Inland Mission, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship | Locales: China, Singapore
• Mary Ann Aldersey - 1797 ~ 1868 - Independent pioneer woman missionary in China. - Affiliation: Independent Missionary | Locale: Zhejiang
• Giulio Aleni - 1582 ~ 1647 - Jesuit missionary in China. - Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locales: Shanghai, ZhejiangFujian
• Roland Allen - 1868 ~ 1947 - Missiologist and radical critic of the church. - Affiliation: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel | Locale: Beijing
• Young John Allen - 1836 ~ 1907 - American missionary, educator, and translator in China. - Affiliation: American Southern Methodist Episcopal Mission | Locale: Shanghai
• Alopen - 7th Century - Persian Nestorian missionary to China. - Locale: Xian
• Louis Ambrosi - 1829 ~ 1867 - Fourth prefect apostolic of the Hong Kong Catholic Church (1855-67). - Affiliation: Roman Catholic Church | Locale: Hong Kong
• Jean Joseph Marie Amiot - 1718 ~ 1793 - Jesuit missionary and author at the court of the Chinese emperor. - Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Beijing
• Alan S. Moore Anderson - 1876 ~ 1959 - English Presbyterian missionary to China, Malaysia, and Singapore. - Affiliation: English Presbyterian Mission | Locales: Xiamen, SingaporeMalaysia
• David Gordon Anderson - 1908 ~ 1939 - Medical missionary of the China Inland Mission. Served at the Wilmay Memorial Hospital in Changzhi, Shanxi Province as an attending physician and hospital director. Died at a young age after contracting typhoid from a wounded soldier he treated. - Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Locale: Shanxi
• Antonio de Andrade - 1580 ~ 1634 - Jesuit missionary in India and Tibet. - Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locales: Tibet, Quanzhou
• Andrew of Perugia - 1270 ~ 1329 - Franciscan missionary and bishop in China. - Affiliation: Order of Friars Minor | Locales: Beijing, Quanzhou
• Johann Baptist von Anzer - 1851 ~ 1903 - Catholic missionary and bishop in China. - Affiliation: Society of the Divine Word | Locale: Shandong
• Giovanni Aroccia - 1566 ~ 1623 - Portuguese Jesuit missionary who entered interior China in the late Ming Dynasty. - Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Locale: Jiangsu
• William Ashmore - 1824 ~ 1909 - American Baptist missionary in China. - Affiliation: American Baptist Missionary Union | Locale: Shantou
• Gladys May Aylward - 1902 ~ 1970 - British missionary in China. - Affiliation: Independent Missionary | Locale: Shanxi
• João Paulino de Azevedo e Castro - 1852 ~ 1918 - Bishop of Macau (1902-18) who guided the church through the fall of the Chinese Empire and World War I. - Affiliation: Roman Catholic Church | Locale: Macau

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