Several 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 the southern Tamil Nadu.[1][2] 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
- Rev. Murdoch Mackenzie - originally from the Congregational Church; ordained in the Church of South India[3]
- Rev. Ellis O. Shaw - from the Church of Scotland; served in the Church of South India
- Rt. Rev. James Edward Lesslie Newbigin - Ordained in Church of Scotland; affiliated with the United Reformed Church; served in the Church of South India
- Rev. Arthur Margoschis - Nazareth, Tamil Nadu - SPG missionary
- Rev. Dr. J.M. Strachan - Medical Mission at Nazareth, Tamil Nadu - SPG missionary - Bishop of Rangoon
- Rev. Augustus Frederick Caemmerer - SPG missionary
- Ann Caemmerer - Started the first Girls High School in South India - St. Johns Girls High School, Nazareth - Daughter of Rev. Charles Mead - and Wife of Rev. A.F. Caemmerer
- Rev. Dr. Hermann Gundert - German linguist and Basel missionary to India
- Rev. Dr. Eugen Liebendörfer - German physician and Basel missionary to India
- Rev. Charles Mead - LMS Missionary to Travancore
- Rev Charles Mault - LMS Missionary to Travancore
- Rev. Volbrecht Nagel - German missionary to India
- George Pieritz - SPG missionary
- Rev. John Alfred Sharrock - SPG missionary
- Rev. A. Brotherton Vickers - SPG missionary
- Rev. Adam Compton Thomson - SPG missionary
- Rev. Luke Rivington - Missionary at Edeyengoody
- Rev. Simeon Wilberforce O'Neill
- Rev. Henry Constantine Huxtable - SPG missionary at Sawyerpuram and Christianagaram
- Rev. Christian Samuel Kohloff - SPG missionary at Christianagaram
- Rev. James Kershaw Best - SPG missionary at Christianagaram
- Rev. H. B. Norman - SPG missionary at Mudalur
- Rev. Graham Basanti - women missionary at Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Rev. James Hough - Chaplain of Palamcottah - Honourable East India Company[4]
- Rev. John Thomas - C.M.S. Missionary of Prakasapuram and Mengnanapuram - called as Apostle of South Tirunelveli
- Rev. Schaffter - C.M.S. Missionary
- Sarah Tucker - C.M.S. Missionary
- Rev. John Thomas Tucker - C.M.S. Missionary at Paneivilei, Tinnevelly
- Thomas Gajetan Ragland - C.M.S. Missionary at North Tinnevelly
- Rev. William Tobias Ringeltaube - LMS Missionary to Travancore
- Rev. James Duthie - LMS Missionary to Travancore
- J.T. Margoschis - SPG Missionary - Principal - SPG High School - Trichinopoly
- Reginald Heber - Bishop of Calcutta
- Christian Friedrich Schwarz - German S.P.C.K. Missionary
- Joseph Daniel Jaenicke - German S.P.C.K. Missionary
- Christian William Gericke - S.P.C.K. Missionary
- John Caspar Kohlhoff - S.P.C.K. Missionary
- Rev. Joseph Light Wyatt - SPG missionary - Bishop Heber College
- Isabella Wyatt - Wife of Rev. J.L. Wyatt, and the eldest daughter of Robert Caldwell
- Rev. G.T. Washburn - American Madura Mission
- Dr. C.S. Shelton - American Madura Mission
- Dr. Steele - American Madura Mission
- Rev. John Anderson - Missionary from Church of Scotland - Founder - Madras Christian College
- Rev. William Miller - Missionary from Church of Scotland - Madras Christian College
- Lady White - Methodist Missionary
- Miss Katie Wilcox - American Board of Congregational Churches - Founder of Lady Doak College, Madurai
- Miss Kathleen Nora Brockway - Founder of St. Christopher's College of Education, Chennai
- Miss Eleanor McDougall - Missionary Educator - Founder Principal of Women's Christian College - Madras
- George Trevor Spencer - Lord Bishop of Madras
- Paul Olaf Bodding
- Paul Wilson Brand
- Edith Mary Brown
- Nathan Brown
- Robert Caldwell
- Eliza Caldwell - Wife of Robert Caldwell, and Daughter of Rev. Charles Mault
- William Carey
- Amy Carmichael
- Alexander Crawford - first Presbyterian missionary to India (1823–29)[5]
- Alexander Duff
- James Glasgow (1805–90) - early missionary from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (1841-1864)[6][7]
- Anthony Norris Groves
- John Christian Frederick Heyer
- Sam Higginbottom
- John Nelson Hyde
- Lyman Jewett
- E. Stanley Jones
- Samuel H. Kellogg - translator of Hindi Bible
- Alexander Kerr - early missionary from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (1841)[8]
- James Long - Church Missionary Society missionary
- Joshua Marshman
- Henry Martyn - Church Missionary Society missionary
- Donald McGavran
- V. Nagel
- J. Waskom Pickett
- George Uglow Pope
- Ida S. Scudder
- Lars Olsen Skrefsrud
- Graham Staines
- Alfred Sturge
- Ralph T. Templin
- William Ward[9]
- Rev C. T. E. Rhenius - first Church Missionary Society missionary
- Rev. George Pettitt - Church Missionary Society missionary
- Bishop Edward Sargent - Church Missionary Society missionary
- Charlotte White - first unmarried American woman missionary
- H. U. Weitbrecht - Church Missionary Society missionary, author of "The Revision of the Urdu New Testament"
- Sister Joyce M. Woollard
- Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg
- Heinrich Plütschau
- Johann Ernst Gründler
- Rev. Benjamin Schultze - Translated and printed Old Testament - Bible, in Tamil.
- Johann Fabricius - Translated and printed New Testament - Bible, in Tamil
- Rev. Dr. J. P. Rottler - Danish Mission
- Dr. Christopher Samuel John - Danish Mission
- Rev. Peter Percival - Wesleyan Methodist Mission
- Rev. David Rosen - Danish Missionary - Has worked at Nicobar Islands, Nazareth and Mudalur
- Rev. John Ludovick Irion - Netherland Missionary Society - Has worked at Nazareth and Mudalur
- Rev. Thomas Brotherton - Missionary at Tanjore, Madras, and Nazareth
- Rev. Carlin Wilfred Weston - Missionary at Nazareth
- Rev. Cecil George Stapley - Missionary at Nazareth
- Rev. James F. Kearns - Missionary at Puthiamputhur
- Rev. Draviam Koilpillai - Headmaster of St. Aidan's College at Natal (S. Africa), Military Chaplain at Mesapotamia, & a friend of M.K. Gandhi - Missionary at Nazareth
- Rev. Stephen Charles Neill - Nazareth Station - Bishop of Tinnevelly
- Rev. Robert Carver - Methodist Missionary
- Rev. Charles Hubbard - First English Missionary employed by S.P.G. in Tinnevelly
- Mason Vaugh and Clara Pennington - Founder of Allahabad Agricultural Institute
- Elmer Whitcomb and Adella Rodeheffer - Founder of Evangelical Hospital, Tilda
- William Keith Whitcomb and Dorothy Vaugh - United Church Board for World Ministries
- Harwood W Raw, 1871-1905 - Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society served in Madras from 1896 until his premature death in 1905
- Rev. William Tobias Ringeltaube, (1770- ?) - London Missionary Society served in the then South Travancore, present revenue district of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu
- Rev. Robert Turlington Noble - Founder of Noble College, Machilipatnam
- Hopestill Pillow - Zenana Missionary to India
See also
References
- ↑ Church of South India, Tirunelveli Diocese. "Missionaries".
- ↑ Gore, David. "Faith and Family in South India".
- ↑ http://www.murdochmackenzieofargyll.com/
- ↑ Perry, Frank. "Chaplains in the HEIC 1805 to 1835, The Church In Madras 1904)".
- ↑ http://www.proni.gov.uk/introduction_crawford_d2003.pdf
- ↑ http://www.proni.gov.uk/introduction_crawford_d2003.pdf
- ↑ http://www.library.yale.edu/div/fa/Gujarat.html
- ↑ http://www.library.yale.edu/div/fa/Gujarat.html
- ↑ [1]
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
- Joshua Project India
- Literary contributions of select list of Tamil scholars from overseas
- https://books.google.com/books?id=Xi-tvrYbYxMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
- https://books.google.com/books?id=b9sHAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
- http://anglicanhistory.org/india/madras1897/