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Diocese Of North China
The Diocese of North China ( zh, t=聖公會華北教區, w=Shêng Kung Hui Hua Pei Chiao Chʽü, l=Anglican Diocese of North China), also known as Hua Pei Diocese (), was an Anglican diocese in China established under the supervision of the Church of England. From 1875 till the establishment of the Anglican-Episcopal Province of China in 1912, the diocesan headquarters were located in the compound of Holy Trinity Church, Shanghai. Bishops of the Diocese *1872–1879: William Armstrong Russell, who also had some functions in the region before the creation of the diocese. *1880–1913: Charles Perry Scott *1914–1940: Francis Lushington Norris Assistant Bishops * Tsae-seng Sing, Assistant Bishop in the Diocese 1918–1940 See also * All Saints' Church, Tianjin * Dalian Anglican Church * :Anglican dioceses in China References Church Work in North China: A Sketch of the Church of England mission in North China, together with an Account of the Formation of the Diocese(18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Saviour's Cathedral (Beijing)
Holy Saviour's Cathedral is a former Anglican cathedral in Xicheng District of Beijing, China. History English evangelism started in Beijing in 1862 with the arrival of missionaries John Burdon (bishop), John Shaw Burdon and Samuel Isaac Schereschewsky. In 1880, the Diocese of North China was founded to serve the city's growing Anglican population. The property on which the cathedral is situated was originally owned by Ying Keting, an official who worked in the Criminal Department of the Qing dynasty, Qing Dynasty. Charles Scott (bishop), Charles Perry Scott, Bishop of the Diocese of North China, purchased with the intention to build a Cathedral for the burgeoning Diocese. The church was built in 1907, and is the oldest surviving Anglican church in Northern China. It was the seat of the Diocese of North China. Anglican worship at the cathedral ended following the Chinese Communist Revolution, Communist takeover in 1949. The building fell into disrepair, but was restored in 1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Russell (bishop Of North China)
William Armstrong Russell (1821–1879) was an Irish people, Irish Protestant Christianity, Christian missionary to Qing dynasty, China, and served as the Anglican Bishop of Diocese of North China, North China. Russell, son of Marcus Carew Russell, by Fanny Potts, was born at Ballydavid House, Littleton, County Tipperary, Littleton, County Tipperary, Ireland, in 1821, and was educated at Midleton College, Midleton School, County Cork, and at Trinity College, Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained by Bishop Charles James Blomfield in 1847, and as a missionary in connection with the Church Missionary Society went to China in that year in company with Robert Henry Cobbold, afterwards archdeacon of Ningbo. These two men were the first Protestant missionaries in Ningbo. Russell translated into the Ningbo dialect the greater part of the New Testament, portions of the Old Testament, and the Book of Common Prayer, besides writing many tracts and essays. He was appointed the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Dioceses In China
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Anglican Dioceses Established In The 19th Century
Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Most are members of national or regional ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, one of the largest Christian bodies in the world, and the world's third-largest Christian communion. When united churches in the Anglican Communion and the breakaway Continuing Anglican movement were not counted, there were an estimated 97.4 million Anglicans worldwide in 2020. Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The provinces within the Anglican Communion are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and thus with the archbis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Organizations Established In 1891
A Christian () is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism, monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus Christ. Christians form the largest religious community in the world. The words ''Christ (title), Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title (), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term ''mashiach'' () (usually rendered as ''messiah'' in English). While there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term ''Christian'' used as an adjective is descriptive of anything associated with Christianity or Christian churches, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.3 billion Christians around the world, up from about 600 million in 1910. Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the Americas, about 26% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Dioceses China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuguang Street Church
Yuguang Street Church ( zh, t=玉光街禮拜堂, s=玉光街礼拜堂) is a Protestant church in Dalian, China. It is the former Dalian Anglican Church ( zh, t=大連聖公會教堂, s=大连圣公会教堂, first=t, links=no; ) and the building is a Historical Protected Building of Dalian City. Brief history In the early 20th century an Anglican church was built on the premises of the British consulate in Dalian. In 1928 the second-generation church building was built by a joint effort of the Church of England and the Anglican-Episcopal Church of Japan, and named Dalian Anglican Church. Services were held in English and Japanese. The church belonged to the North China Diocese of the Anglican-Episcopal Province of China. At the end of the Second World War, all Japanese-owned buildings were confiscated by the Chinese, the religious buildings were never used as such; as Britain owned half of the church, it was left as a Christian church and was renamed "Yuguang Street Church" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Saints' Church, Tianjin
All Saints' Church ( zh, t=諸聖堂, s=诸圣堂, first=t, w=Chu1-shêng4 tʻang2, p=Zhūshèng táng), also known as the Episcopal Church of Tianjin or, simply the Anglican Church ( zh, t=安里甘教堂, s=安里甘教堂, w=An1-li3-kan1 chiao4-tʽang2, p=Ānlǐgān jiàotáng, links=no), is a small, redundant Anglican church on Race Course Road (today's Zhejiang Road), in the former British concession of the city of Tianjin, north China. History In 1893, for building an English church in the concession, the gave to the Church a marshland near the junction of Meadours Road and Race Course Road. Being capable of holding only 60 people, the church had soon become too small due to the increase in British migration. The first stone of a new church was laid in 1900, but construction was suspended due to the Boxer Rebellion. After the insurrection subsided in 1901, construction had been resumed under the supervision of Charles Scott, the then missionary bishop of the Diocese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsae-seng Sing
Shen Zaichen ( zh, t=沈載琛, w=Shên Tsai-chʽên, p=Shěn Zàichēn, also romanized Sing Tsae-seng; 1861–1940) was an Anglican bishop in China. Shen's father was the first clergyman in Zhejiang. He was educated at Trinity College, Ningbo and ordained in 1890.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 pp1181/2: London, OUP, 1929 He was Headmaster of his old college for 29 years. He was also Archdeacon of Chekiang (Zhejiang) from 1910 to 1918. In that year he was consecrated at Holy Trinity Church, Shanghai to be an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of North China, making him the first person of Chinese descent to be made a Bishop in the Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is a Christian Full communion, communion consisting of the Church of England and other autocephalous national and regional churches in full communion. The archbishop of Canterbury in England acts as a focus of unity, .... References 1864 births 1940 deaths People from Zhejiang Alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Norris (bishop)
Francis Lushington Norris (1 September 1864 – 2 July 1945) was an Anglican missionary bishop. Norris was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1888, his first ministry position was as a curate at Tewkesbury Abbey. after which he went to China as an SPG missionary, serving largely in Peking. In 1914 he became the Bishop of North China. He retired in 1940 and died of pneumonia on 2 July 1945 in the Japanese Prisoner of War Camp, Shanghai.''Obituary'' The Times ''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its si ... 24 July 1945; pg. 6; Issue 50202; col E References 1864 births People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Anglican missionary bishops in China 1945 deaths 20th-century Anglican bishops in China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Scott (bishop)
Charles Perry Scott (7 June 1847, in Kingston upon Hull, Hull – 13 February 1927, in Shanghai) was an Anglican missionary bishop. Scott was born into an ecclesiastical family: his father was the Rev. John Scott, sometime Vicar of St Mary's Church, Hull. He was named for his godfather, Charles Perry (bishop), Charles Perry (Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, Bishop of Melbourne) and educated at Charterhouse School, Charterhouse and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1870. Ordained in 1871, he was a Curate at St Peter, Eaton Square before going to China as a missionary. In 1880 he was appointed bishop in North China, a post he held until 1913. His diocese included five Chinese provinces. In 1889 he married Frances Emily Burrows, daughter of the Oxford historian Montagu Burrows and grand-daughter of Montagu Burrows (British Army officer), General Montagu Burrows. Scott died on 13 February 1927.''Obituary. Bishop C. P. Scott. Our Peking Correspondent telegraphs'' The T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Trinity Church, Shanghai
Holy Trinity Church, Shanghai ( zh, t=上海聖三一堂, s=上海圣三一堂, p=Shànghǎi shèng sānyī táng), is a Protestant (and formerly Anglican) church in Huangpu District of Shanghai. The church, consecrated in 1869 was designed in a Gothic Revival style by British architect Sir George Gilbert Scott. After 1875, upon the appointment of Bishop William Russell as the first Church of England Bishop in the Diocese of North China, the church was commonly referred to as a cathedral, and the senior priest was known as the Dean. This cathedral designation was however mainly by way of common convention than fact as the titular bishop of the Anglican Communion located in Shanghai at the time was Channing Moore Williams of the Episcopal Church. The church has recently undergone restoration and has been serving as the main church and headquarters of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement in Shanghai since 2006. However, as of June 2018, the church was still not open for worship. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
