Diocese of Shanghai

The Diocese of Shanghai was an American Anglican bishopric that was involved in missionary work in China during the late Qing Dynasty.

Episcopal mission in China

The bishopric at Shanghai served as the mission's national head quarters. Following Mr. Lockwood, Rev. William Jones Boone‎ went out in 1837 to Batavia. He afterwards removed to Amoy, but in 1843 he was appointed to Shanghai, and was made the missionary bishop of Shanghai. Speedily, boarding and day schools were established, a medical hospital opened, and Dr. Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky was set apart to prepare a new version of the Bible, in the Mandarin dialect, which he completed in 1875. There was also in Shanghai a medical school for the training of native physicians, surgeons and nurses, and a college for the training of native missionaries. There were other stations at Wuchang, Hankow, Yantai, and Beijing, which, including those at Shanghai, in 1890 comprised forty-three places of worship, ten missionaries, three medical agents, three lady agents, seventeen ordained native ministers, three unordained helpers, and about five hundred communicants. [Townsend (1890), 236]

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See also

*Timeline of Chinese history
*Christianity in China