Giovanni Aroccia
1566 ~ 1623
Portuguese Jesuit missionary who entered interior China in the late Ming Dynasty.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Jiangsu is a province of the People's Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. The name comes from jiang, short for the city of Jiangning (now Nanjing), and su, for the city of Suzhou.
Jiangsu borders Shandong in the north, Anhui to the west, and Zhejiang and Shanghai to the south. Jiangsu has a coastline of over one thousand kilometers along the Yellow Sea, and the Yangtze River passes through its southern parts.
Frederick William Baller
1852 ~ 1922
British missionary, educator, and translator in China.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission | Other Locales:
Lemuel Nelson Bell
1894 ~ 1973
Southern Presbyterian medical missionary in Tsingkiangpu (now Huaiyin), Jiangsu, China
Affiliation: American Southern Presbyterian Mission
Virginia Leftwich Bell
1892 ~ 1974
Wife of Southern Presbyterian missionary L. Nelson Bell
Affiliation: American Southern Presbyterian Mission
Lazzaro Cattaneo
1560 ~ 1640
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Other Locales:
Xaver-Ehrenbert Fridelli
1606 ~ 1682
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Other Locales:
James Robert Graham III
1898 ~ 1982
American Presbyterian missionary in China and Taiwan.
Affiliation: American Presbyterian Mission | Other Locales:
Lydia Brown Hipps
1890 ~ 1925
American missionary who served at Ginling (Jinling) College as the head of the Music Department (1917-21); Acting Dean of Women and head of the Music Department of Shanghai College (1921-25).
Affiliation: Jinling College | Other Locales:
Huang Su’e
For forty years, an inspiring teacher and leader of church-work among women in Shanghai and Jiangsu.
Affiliation: American Episcopal Church Mission | Other Locales:
Francis Price Jones
1890 ~ 1975
Missionary to China of the Methodist Episcopal Church (North).
Affiliation: American Methodist Episcopal Mission | Other Locales:
Kate Rodd Moffett
1882 ~ 1961
Homemaker and accomplished musician who ministered with her husband, Lacy Moffett, in Jiangsu.
Affiliation: Southern Presbyterian Church
Qu Tai Su
1549 ~
Well-known Catholic in China during the Ming period.
Affiliation: Catholic Church in China
Antonio Riberi
1897 ~ 1967
Vatican representative to China (1946-49) and Taiwan (1953-59).
Affiliation: Roman Catholic Church | Other Locales:
Francois de Rougemont
1624 ~ 1676
Jesuit missionary in China.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus | Other Locales:
Shen Tilan
1899 ~ 1976
Chinese Christian educator, supporter of democracy movements and signer of the "Three-Self Manifesto".
Affiliation: Young Men's Christian Association
James Hudson Taylor
1832 ~ 1905
Founder and director of the China Inland Mission.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission
Jenny Faulding Taylor
1843 ~ 1904
First woman missionary to travel deep into interior China, paving the way for women in pioneering roles.
Affiliation: China Inland Mission
Wu Yifang
1893 ~ 1985
Wu became China's first woman university president, at Jinling Women's College in Nanjing. Wu was the only woman in China's delegation at the founding of the United Nations.
Affiliation: Jinling College for Girls
Wu Yushan
1632 ~ 1718
First Chinese priest of the Society of Jesus in Jiangnan, China, and well-known landscape artist in the Qing dynasty.
Affiliation: Society of Jesus
Zhou Zhiyu
1889 ~
Delegate to several World Christian Conferences, superintendent of China Christian Mission Crusaders and founder of Tai Dong Bible College.
Affiliation: Chinese Anglican Church