Christianity in Shanghai
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Christianity is a minority faith in Shanghai, a large city in East China.
Shanghai has the highest proportion of Catholic residents of any province-level division in Mainland China (2003).[1][unreliable source] The Roman Catholic Diocese of Shanghai has churches including St. Ignatius Cathedral of Shanghai and She Shan Basilica. Shanghai has far more Christians than Jews. The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, which is close to the governing party Christian Democratic Union (Germany) of Germany, has an office in Shanghai. [2]
List of Protestant missionaries in Shanghai
Below is a selection of historic Protestant missionaries in Shanghai:
- Young John Allen
- William Jones Boone
- William Jones Boone, Jr.
- Joseph Edkins
- Frederick Rogers Graves
- Walter Russell Lambuth
- William Lockhart
- Walter Lowrie
- Walter Henry Medhurst
- William Muirhead
- Francis Lister Hawks Pott
- Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky
- James Hudson Taylor
- Matthew Tyson Yates
See also
References
- ↑ According to Johnstone, Patrick; Schirrmacher, Thomas (2003). Gebet für die Welt. Hänssler. ISBN 978-0-8133-4275-7.
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