Christianity in Shaanxi

Christianity is a minority in Shaanxi, a province of China. Christianity in Xi'an includes St. Francis Cathedral of Xi'an. Churches in the province have grown rapidly.^[1] Catholicism has entered Shaanxi before 1700.^[2] In 1875, George King and Frederick Baller of the China Inland Mission became the first Protestant missionaries to visit Shaanxi.^[1] In 1892, Arthur Gostick Shorrock^[3] and Moir Duncan^[4] founded the Sianfu Mission, in present day Xi'an, Shaanxi Province.^[5][6][7] A Shaanxi Bible School exists since 1988.^[8] Zan Jia Cun is a village with a Catholic majority and which is the origin of priests. ^[9] Xiaoqiaopan is another village with a catholic majority. ^[10] Shaanxi has persecution of Christians.^[11]

List of Roman Catholic dioceses with seat in Shaanxi

• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Xi’an
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Fengxiang
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Hanzhong
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Sanyuan
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Yan’an
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Zhouzhi

See also

• Mentuhui

References

1. ^ ^{a b} http://www.prayforchina.com/province/Shaanxi.htm
2. ^ http://books.google.de/books?id=sOGSvo4VMPkC&pg=PA124&dq=Christians+Shaanxi&hl=de&ei=DGU8TYihO9WI4QbZufnxCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Christians%20Shaanxi&f=false
3. ^ Shorrock, Arthur Gostick (1926). Shensi in Sunshine and Shade. Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press. 
4. ^ "Duncan Papers (Mundus Gateway to missionary collections in the United Kingdom)". Angus Library, Regents Park College. http://www.mundus.ac.uk/cats/10/1004.htm. 
5. ^ Burt, Ernest Whitby (1925). Fifty Years in China: The Story of the Baptist Mission in Shantung, Shansi, and Shensi, 1875-1925. London: The Carey Press. 
6. ^ Glover, Richard (1914). Herbert Stanley Jenkins, medical missionary, Shensi, China: with some notices of the work of the Baptist Missionary Society in that country (1914). London: Carey Press. pp. 155. ISBN 0524071004. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924023085982. 
7. ^ Duncan, Moir Black (1900). The missionary mail to faithful friends and candid critics (the substance of letters written from Shên His). London: Elliot Stock. http://ia331408.us.archive.org/0/items/pts_missionarymailto_3721-1233/pts_missionarymailto_3721-1233.pdf. 
8. ^ http://www.globalministries.org/eap/projects/shaanxi-bible-school.html
9. ^ http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=28216&lan=eng
10. ^ http://www.kuleuven.be/verbiest/koerier/vK200209PDF.pdf
11. ^ http://www.christiansincrisis.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3591&Itemid=39