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Christianity
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is a minority faith in
Shanghai
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, a municipality in China.
Shanghai has the highest proportion of
Catholic
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residents of any province-level division in mainland China (2003).
[According to Johnstone, Patrick; Schirrmacher, Thomas (2003). Gebet für die Welt. Hänssler. .] 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
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. The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, which is close to the governing party
Christian Democratic Union (Germany)
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of
Germany
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, has an office in Shanghai.
List of Protestant missionaries in Shanghai
Below is a selection of historic Protestant missionaries in Shanghai:
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Young John Allen
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William Jones Boone
*
William Jones Boone, Jr.
*
Joseph Edkins
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*
Frederick Rogers Graves
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Walter Russell Lambuth
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William Lockhart
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Walter Lowrie
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Walter Henry Medhurst
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William Muirhead
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Francis Lister Hawks Pott
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Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky
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James Hudson Taylor
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Matthew Tyson Yates
See also
*
Shanghighlander
* Christianity in Shanghai's neighbouring provinces
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Christianity in Jiangsu
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Christianity in Zhejiang
References
External links
List of Shanghai churches
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