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David Abeel

1804 ~ 1846

Pioneer American missionary to China.

Affiliation: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions  |  Locales: Guangzhou City‚  Xiamen City

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 Province

Giulio Aleni

1582 ~ 1647

Jesuit missionary in China.

Affiliation: Society of Jesus  |  Locales: Shanghai ‚  Zhejiang Province‚  Fujian Province

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 City

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 City‚  Singapore‚  Malaysia

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 Province

Antonio de Andrade

1580 ~ 1634

Jesuit missionary in India and Tibet.

Affiliation: Society of Jesus  |  Locales: Tibet Province‚  Quanzhou City

Andrew of Perugia

1270 ~ 1329

Franciscan missionary and bishop in China.

Affiliation: Order of Friars Minor  |  Locales: Beijing ‚  Quanzhou City

Johann Baptist von Anzer

1851 ~ 1903

Catholic missionary and bishop in China.

Affiliation: Society of the Divine Word  |  Locale: Shandong Province

Giovanni Aroccia

1566 ~ 1623

Portuguese Jesuit missionary who entered interior China in the late Ming Dynasty.

Affiliation: Society of Jesus  |  Locale: Jiangsu Province

William Ashmore

1824 ~ 1909

American Baptist missionary in China.

Affiliation: American Baptist Missionary Union  |  Locale: Shantou City

Gladys May Aylward

1902 ~ 1970

British missionary in China.

Affiliation: Independent Missionary  |  Locale: Shanxi Province

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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