Andrew of Perugia
1270 ~ 1329
Franciscan missionary and bishop in China.
Affiliation: Order of Friars Minor | Other Locales:
Beijing, a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It was formerly known in English as Peking.
John of Marignolli
Franciscan and papal emissary to the emperor of China.
Affiliation: Franciscan Order
Roland Allen
1868 ~ 1947
Missiologist and radical critic of the church.
Affiliation: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
Jean Joseph Marie Amiot
1718 ~ 1793
Jesuit missionary and author at the court of the Chinese emperor.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Iakinf Bichurin
1777 ~ 1853
Outstanding Russian sinologist and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Affiliation: Russian Orthodox Church
Eliza Jane Gillett Bridgman
1805 ~ 1871
Pioneer educational missionary in China.
Affiliation: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions | Other Locales:
Lodovico Buglio
1606 ~ 1682
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Other Locales:
John S. Burdon
1826 ~ 1907
Missionary of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East.
Affiliation: Church Missionary Society | Other Locales:
Giuseppe Castiglione
1683 ~ 1766
Jesuit missionary and painter at the imperial court of China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Cheng Jingyi
1881 ~ 1939
Manchu Christian and founder of the China for Christ movement.
Affiliation: Church of Christ in China
Thomas Cochrane
1866 ~ 1953
Medical missionary in China and promoter of mission surveys.
Affiliation: London Missionary Society | Other Locales:
Lucinda L. Coombs
1849 ~ 1919
American Methodist medical missionary in China.
Affiliation: American Methodist Episcopal Mission | Other Locales:
Emmanuel Diaz
1574 ~ 1659
Portuguese Jesuit missionary to China in the late Ming period.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Other Locales:
John Dudgeon
1837 ~ 1901
Scottish medical missionary to China from Britain.
Affiliation: London Missionary Society
Joseph Edkins
1823 ~ 1905
British missionary, translator, and sinologist.
Affiliation: London Missionary Society | Other Locales:
Ernst Johann Eitel
1838 ~ 1908
An early German missionary, Dr. Ernst Johann Eitel served with the Basel German Evangelical Society (or Basel Mission) in South China from 1862-65. He then served with the London Missionary Society in Beijing from 1865-78, and baptised the first Protestant...
Affiliations: Basel Mission , London Missionary Society | Other Locales:
Pierre-Marie Alphonse Favier
1837 ~ 1905
Missionary pastor and vicar apostolic of Beijing (Peking).
Affiliation: Congregation of the Mission
Fei Qihao
1879 ~ 1953
Chinese Christian educator.
Affiliation: Young Men's Christian Association | Other Locales:
Innokentii Figurovskii
1864 ~ 1931
Russian Orthodox missionary to China.
Affiliation: Russian Orthodox Church
Jean-Francois Foucquet
1665 ~ 1741
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Other Locales:
Alice Seymour Browne Frame
1878 ~ 1941
American Congregationalist missionary and dean of Women's College, Yenching University.
Affiliation: Yenching University
Xaver-Ehrenbert Fridelli
1606 ~ 1682
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Other Locales:
Frank D. Gamewell
1857 ~ 1950
American Methodist educational missionary in China.
Affiliation: American Methodist Episcopal Mission
Philippus Maria Grimaldi
1639 ~ 1712
Italian Jesuit missionary who worked in the Qing government during the reign of Emperor Kangxi.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Maurus Heinrichs
1904 ~ 1996
Franciscan missionary in China and Japan.
Affiliation: Order of Friars Minor | Other Locales:
Henry Theodore Hodgkin
1877 ~ 1933
Quaker missionary and administrator in China.
Affiliation: Friends' Foreign Missionary Association
Leonora Howard
1851 ~ 1925
Methodist medical missionary in China.
Affiliation: Woman's Foreign Missionary Society | Other Locales:
Evariste-Regis Huc
1813 ~ 1860
Vincentian missionary in Mongolia and Tibet.
Affiliation: Congregation of the Mission | Other Locales:
Stanislas Francois Jarlin
1856 ~ 1933
Vincentian missionary in China.
Affiliation: Congregation of the Mission
Pierre Jartoux
1669 ~ 1720
Jesuit mathematician and cartographer in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
John of Montecorvino
1247 ~ 1328
First Roman Catholic missionary to reach China proper and first bishop of Khanbaliq (Beijing).
Affiliation: Order of Friars Minor
Petr Ivanovich Kafarov
1817 ~ 1878
Russian Orthodox sinologist and missionary.
Affiliation: Russian Orthodox Church
Eliza Ellen Leonard
1866 ~ 1924
American medical missionary, formerly of the American Presbyterian Mission, Beijing (Peking), later a member of the medical staff of Shantung (Shandong) Christian University at Jinan (Tsinan).
Affiliation: American Presbyterian Mission | Other Locales:
Maxim Leontiev
d. 1698
Russian Orthodox missionary priest in China.
Affiliation: Russian Orthodox Church
Lin Qiaozhi
1901 ~ 1983
Beloved Doctor for Women and Babies
Affiliation: Peking Union Medical School
Liu Tingfang
1891 ~ 1947
Chinese Christian educator, hymn writer and indigenous church leader.
Affiliation: Yenching University
Nicolò Longobardo
1559 ~ 1654
Longest-serving Jesuit missionary in China during the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Henry Winters Luce
1868 ~ 1941
Missionary educator in China.
Affiliation: Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions | Other Locales:
Joseph Marie Anne de Moyriac de Mailla
1669 ~ 1748
Jesuit missionary, cartographer, and historian in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
William Alexander Parsons Martin
1827 ~ 1916
American Presbyterian missionary in China.
Affiliation: American Presbyterian Mission | Other Locales:
Mei Yibao
1900 ~ 1996
Chinese Philosophy professor and university administrator.
Affiliation: Yenching University | Other Locales:
Mei Yiqi
1889 ~ 1962
Mei became president of Tsinghua University in Beijing in 1931. During the difficult years of the Anti-Japanese War, he was president of Southwest United University (a consortium of China's best universities) in Kunming, Yunnan.
Affiliation: Young Men's Christian Association | Other Locales:
Carlo Ambrogio Mezzabarba
1685 ~ 1741
Second papal legate in Peking (Beijing), China.
Affiliation: Roman Catholic Church
Luella Miner
1861 ~ 1935
American missionary educator in China.
Affiliation: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions | Other Locales:
Joseph Martial Mouly
1807 ~ 1863
French Vincentian missionary and bishop in China and Mongolia.
Affiliation: Congregation of the Mission
William H. Murray
1843 ~ 1911
Developer of a system for the blind to read Chinese.
Affiliation: Scottish Bible Society
Odoric of Pordenone
1286 ~ 1331
Italian Franciscan who went to China as a tourist during the Yuan dynasty.
Affiliation: Franciscan Order
Didace de Pantoja
1571 ~ 1618
Spanish Jesuit missionary to China during the late Ming period.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Thomas Pereira
1645 ~ 1708
Portuguese Jesuit missionary serving the Qing government of Emperor Kangxi.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Lucius Chapin Porter
1880 ~ 1958
American missionary educator in China.
Affiliation: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Nicolas Joseph Raux
1754 ~ 1801
French Vincentian missionary (CM) who went to China during the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing dynasty.
Affiliation: Vincentians
Jean-Baptiste Regis
1663 ~ 1738
Jesuit missionary and cartographer in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Matteo Ricci
1552 ~ 1610
Founder of modern Roman Catholic missions in China and Western sinologist.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Randolph C. Sailer
1898 ~ 1981
Missionary in China, commended by Zhou En Lai as a "friend of the Chinese people".
Affiliation: Yenching University
Johann Adam Schall von Bell
1592 ~ 1666
Jesuit missionary and astronomer in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Arthur Henderson Smith
1845 ~ 1932
American author and missionary to China.
Affiliation: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions | Other Locales:
John Leighton Stuart
1876 ~ 1962
Missionary educator, first president of Yenching University and American ambassador to the Republic of China.
Affiliation: Yenching University | Other Locales:
Tang Guo’an
1858 ~ 1913
Pioneer in modern education; early diplomat
Affiliations: Young Men's Christian Association , Tsinghua School | Other Locales:
Johann Terrenz
1576 ~ 1630
First Jesuit missionary to help the Ming court revise the Chinese calendar.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
David Toong
1895 ~ 1998
Prominent Chinese educator
Affiliations: St. John’s University , Young Men's Christian Association | Other Locales:
Charles Thomas Maillard de Tournon
1668 ~ 1710
First papal legate to the court of China in the modern period.
Affiliation: Roman Catholic Church
Sabbatino de Ursis
1575 ~ 1620
Italian Jesuit missionary to China in the late Ming dynasty.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Ferdinand Verbiest
1623 ~ 1688
Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and diplomat at the court of China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Claude Visdelou
1656 ~ 1737
Jesuit missionary in China and one of the royal mathematicians sent by Louis XIV to the court of China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Other Locales:
Wang Mingdao
1900 ~ 1991
Outspoken Chinese fundamentalist, independent evangelist, and martyr.
Affiliation: Beijing Christian Tabernacle
Wang Zheng
1521 ~ 1644
Well-known Chinese Catholic in the late Ming period.
Affiliation: Catholic Church in China | Other Locales:
Wang Zhengting
1882 ~ 1961
Chinese Christian politician, businessman, and diplomat.
Affiliation: Young Men's Christian Association | Other Locales:
John Wherry
1837 ~ 1918
American missionary, Christian educator and Bible translator who served in China for nearly fifty years.
Affiliation: Presbyterian Mission | Other Locales:
Samuel Wells Williams
1812 ~ 1884
American missionary in China, scholar, and diplomat.
Affiliation: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Wu Leichuan
1870 ~ 1944
Notable Chinese Christian scholar.
Affiliation: Yenching University | Other Locales:
Xu Baoqian
1892 ~ 1944
Chinese Christian leader in education.
Affiliation: Young Men's Christian Association
Xu Guangqi
1562 ~ 1633
Grand minister of the Ming dynasty and significant member of the Catholic Church who contributed much to the propagation of Christianity during the late Ming period.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Other Locales:
Xu Qian
1871 ~ 1940
Chinese scholar and reformer of the judiciary system in China.
Affiliation: Chinese Anglican Church | Other Locales:
Yan Huiqing
1877 ~ 1950
Distinguished civil servant under many Chinese governments over several decades.
Affiliation: Chinese Government | Other Locales:
Yang Chongrui
1891 ~ 1983
A pioneer in modern OB-GYN medicine
Affiliation: Peking Union Medical College
Yang Tingyun
1557 ~ 1627
Famous Chinese Catholic converted from Buddhism in the late Ming dynasty.
Affiliation: Catholic Church in China | Other Locales:
Yu Rizhang
1882 ~ 1936
Chinese general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association in China for 16 years.
Affiliation: Young Men's Christian Association | Other Locales:
Zhang Xueyan
1901 ~ 1950
Chinese Christian scholar and social activist, one of five representatives from the religious sector to participate in the National Political Consultative Meeting.
Affiliation: Presbyterian Church in China | Other Locales:
Zhao Zichen
1888 ~ 1979
Chinese Christian theologian, writer and educator who worked to make Christianity relevant to the needs of Chinese culture and society.
Affiliation: National Christian Council of China
Zhu Youyu
1885 ~ 1986
Educator, chaplain, church leader
Affiliation: Episcopal Church | Other Locales:
Polycarpe de Souza
1697 ~ 1757
First bishop in Beijing following the banning of Christianity by the Qing emperor Yongzheng.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus