Famous Missionaries Flashcards
Ulfilas
Bishop, Missionary, and Bible translator. From Cappadocia who spent time inside the Roman Empire at the peak of the Arian Controversy. Migrated to modern northern Bulgaria and translated the bible from Greek into the Gothic language.
Martin of Tours
Soldier turned missionary. Destroyed pagan shrines in Gaul and replaced them with churches. Evangelized rural areas and introduced monasticism.
Patrick of Ireland
Taken to Ireland at age 16. Returned after an angelic vision and then worked in Ireland for three decades.
Augustine
A Theologian. His writings influenced Western Christianity and Western Philosophy. He was viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity for his writings in the Patristic Era. He wrote City of God and Confessions. North Africa
Boniface
Leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon Mission to the German parts of the Frankish Empire in the 8th century. He established the first organized Christianity in many parts of Germany.
Ramon Lull
Majorcan writer and philosopher, logician, and Franciscan tertiary. He wrote the first major work of Catalan literature.
Francis Xavier
Roman Catholic Missionary born in Xavier. Co-founder of the Society of Jesus, study companion of Ignatius of Loyola. He was one of the first 7 Jesuits who took vows of poverty and chastity ay Montmartre. He was influential in evangelization mostly in India, but also served in Asia, Japan, Borneo, the Maluku Islands and other areas that had not been visited by missionaries.
Bartholomew De las Casas
Reformed Dominican friar. He was the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, first appointed protector of the Indians. He chronicled the first decades of colonization of the West Indies and focused particularly on the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the indigenous people.
Count Zinzendorf
Commemorated as a hymn-writer and a renewer of the church by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Sending Moravian Missionaries
William Carey
Anglican upbringing became a Baptist through the influence of Andrew Fuller. Cobbler; self-taught in languages and geography, sailed to India in 1793. Had a global view of missions and widespread teaching and distribution of the Bible in 35 local languages.
Father of Modern Missions
Baptist - BMS
Mostly in India
Adoniram Judson
Born in Mass. Congregationalist. He and Luther Rice became Baptists on their way to India, 1812-1813. He was a missionary to Burma, waited 8 years for his first convert. In 1840 he finished translating the Bible.
Luther Rice
Became a Baptist with Adoniram Judson on the way to India in 1812.
David Livingstone
Scottish Congregationalist medical missionary with the London Missionary Society. He explored Africa, looking for source of Nile.
Mary Slessor
A Scottish missionary to Nigeria. She spread Christianity by gaining the trust and acceptance of the locals.
Lottie Moon
A Southern Baptist Missionary to China with the Foreign Mission Board, she spent nearly 40 years living and working in China. She laid the foundations as a teacher and evangelist for missions among Baptists in America.
