Anglican 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 headquarters. Following Mr. Lockwood, the Rev. William Jones Boone went to Batavia in 1837. He afterwards moved to Amoy, but in 1843 he was appointed to Shanghai and was made the missionary bishop of Shanghai. Boarding and day schools were quickly established, a medical hospital opened, and Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky was commissioned 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 as well as 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 43 places of worship, ten missionaries, three medical agents, three women agents, seventeen ordained native ministers, three unordained helpers and about five hundred communicants.[1]

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  1. ↑ Townsend (1890), 236

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