|
Diocese Of North China
The Diocese of North China ( zh, t=聖公會華北教區, w=Shêng Kung Hui Hua Pei Chiao Chʽü, l=Anglican Diocese of North China), also known as Hua Pei Diocese (), was an Anglican diocese in China established under the supervision of the Church of England. From 1875 till the establishment of the Anglican-Episcopal Province of China in 1912, the diocesan headquarters were located in the compound of Holy Trinity Church, Shanghai. Bishops of the Diocese *1872–1879: William Armstrong Russell, who also had some functions in the region before the creation of the diocese. *1880–1913: Charles Perry Scott *1914–1940: Francis Lushington Norris Assistant Bishops *Tsae-seng Sing, Assistant Bishop in the Diocese 1918–1940 See also * All Saints' Church, Tianjin * Dalian Anglican Church * Diocese of Western China References Church Work in North China: A Sketch of the Church of England mission in North China, together with an Account of the Formation of the Diocese(1891)(So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Saviour's Cathedral (Beijing)
Holy Saviour's Cathedral is a former Anglican cathedral in Xicheng District of Beijing, China. History English evangelism started in Beijing in 1862 with the arrival of missionaries John Shaw Burdon and Samuel Isaac Schereschewsky. In 1880, the Diocese of North China was founded to serve the city's growing Anglican population. The property on which the cathedral is situated was originally owned by Ying Keting, an official who worked in the Criminal Department of the Qing Dynasty. Charles Perry Scott, Bishop of the Diocese of North China, purchased with the intention to build a Cathedral for the burgeoning Diocese. The church was built in 1907, and is the oldest surviving Anglican church in Northern China. It was the seat of the Diocese of North China. Anglican worship at the cathedral ended following the Communist takeover in 1949. The building fell into disrepair, but was restored in 1990 by the Saiweng Information and Consulting Center. In 2003, the building was listed as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Scott (bishop)
Charles Perry Scott (7 June 1847, in Hull – 13 February 1927, in Shanghai) was an Anglican missionary bishop. Scott was born into an ecclesiastical family: his father was the Rev. John Scott, sometime Vicar of St Mary, Hull. He was named for his godfather, Charles Perry ( Bishop of Melbourne) and educated at Charterhouse and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1870. Ordained in 1871, he was a Curate at St Peter, Eaton Square before going to China as a missionary. In 1880 he was appointed bishop in North China, a post he held until 1913. His diocese included five Chinese provinces. In 1889 he married Frances Emily Burrows, daughter of the Oxford historian Montagu Burrows. He died on 13 February 1927.''Obituary. Bishop C. P. Scott. Our Peking Correspondent telegraphs'' The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Dioceses In China
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The majority of Anglicans are members of national or regional ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, which forms the third-largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. These provinces are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and thus with the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom the communion refers to as its '' primus inter pares'' (Latin, 'first among equals'). The Archbishop calls the decennial Lambeth Conference, chairs the meeting of primates, and is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Dioceses Established In The 19th Century
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The majority of Anglicans are members of national or regional ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, which forms the third-largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. These provinces are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and thus with the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom the communion refers to as its ''primus inter pares'' (Latin, 'first among equals'). The Archbishop calls the decennial Lambeth Conference, chairs the meeting of primates, and is the presi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Religious Organizations Established In 1891
Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements; however, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacred things, faith,Tillich, P. (1957) ''Dynamics of faith''. Harper Perennial; (p. 1). a supernatural being or supernatural beings or "some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest of life". Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities or saints), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, public service, or other aspects of human culture. Religions have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese Of Western China
The Diocese of Western China ( zh, t=聖公會華西教區, w=Shêng Kung Hui Hua Hsi Chiao Chʽü, l=Anglican Diocese of Western China), also known as Diocese of Szechwan ( zh, t=聖公會四川教區, w=Shêng Kung Hui Ssu Chʽuan Chiao Chʽü, l=Anglican Diocese of Szechwan, links=no) or Hua Hsi Diocese (), was an Anglican diocese in late-Qing-dynasty and Republican China, established in 1895, under the supervision of the Church of England. It had belonged to the Church in China since its outset, and had been part of the Chinese Anglican Church since 1912. In 1936, it was divided into the Diocese of East Szechwan () and Diocese of West Szechwan (). History The Cambridge Seven, who were missionaries to China through the China Inland Mission (CIM), arrived in Shanghai in 1885. Three of them —William Cassels, Arthur T. Polhill-Turner and Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp— were sent up by the CIM into the Western Province of Szechwan, where they established a proper Church of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuguang Street Church
Yuguang Street Church ( zh, t=玉光街禮拜堂, s=玉光街礼拜堂) is a Protestant church in Dalian, China. It is the former Dalian Anglican Church ( zh, t=大連聖公會教堂, s=大连圣公会教堂, first=t, links=no; ja, 大連聖公会教会) and its church building is now a Historical Protected Building of Dalian City. Brief history * From 1905 to 1945, the southern half of the present-day Greater Dalian was Japan's leased territory. Due to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance at that time, the British Consulate General was given a location at Zhongshan Square, the best place in downtown Dalian, and an Anglican church was built in its premises. It was a black brick building. * In 1928, the second-generation red-brick church building was built by a joint effort of the Church of England and the Anglican-Episcopal Church of Japan, which was named Dalian Anglican Church. On Sunday, the English-language service started at 9:00 am and the Japanese-language service at 10:30 am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Saints' Church, Tianjin
All Saints' Church ( zh, t=諸聖堂, s=诸圣堂, first=t, w=Chu1-shêng4 tʻang2, p=Zhūshèng táng), also known as the Episcopal Church of Tianjin or, simply the Anglican Church ( zh, t=安里甘教堂, s=安里甘教堂, w=An1-li3-kan1 chiao4-tʽang2, p=Ānlǐgān jiàotáng, links=no), is a small, redundant Anglican church on Race Course Road (today's Zhejiang Road), in the former British concession of the city of Tianjin. History In 1893, for building an English church in the concession, the gave to the Church a marshland near the junction of Meadours Road and Race Course Road. Being capable of holding only 60 people, the church had soon become too small due to the increase in British migration. The first stone of a new church was laid in 1900, but construction was suspended due to the Boxer Rebellion. After the insurrection subsided in 1901, construction had been resumed under the supervision of Charles Scott, the then missionary bishop of the Diocese of North Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsae-seng Sing
Tsae-seng Sing ( zh, t=沈載琛, w=Tsai-chʽên Shên; 1861–1940) was an Anglican bishop in China. Sing's father (Name Romanized as Shen) was the first clergyman in Chekiang Province. He was educated at Trinity College, Ningpo and ordained in 1890. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 pp1181/2: London, OUP, 1929 He was Headmaster of his old college for 29 years. He was also Archdeacon of Chekiang from 1910 to 1918. In that year he was consecrated at Holy Trinity Church, Shanghai to be an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of North China, making him the first person of Chinese descent to be made a Bishop in the Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other .... References 1864 births 1940 deaths People from Zhejiang Alumni of Trinity College, Nin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Norris (bishop)
Francis Lushington Norris (1 September 1864 – 2 July 1945) was an Anglican missionary bishop. Norris was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1888, his first ministry position was as a curate at Tewkesbury Abbey. after which he went to China as an SPG missionary, serving largely in Peking. In 1914 he became the Bishop of North China. He retired in 1940 and died of pneumonia on 2 July 1945 in the Japanese Prisoner of War Camp, Shanghai.''Obituary'' The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ... 24 July 1945; pg. 6; Issue 50202; col E References 1864 births People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Anglican missionary bishops in China 1945 deaths 20th-century Anglican bishops in China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Russell (bishop Of North China)
William Armstrong Russell (1821–1879) was an Irish people, Irish Protestant Christianity, Christian missionary to Qing dynasty, China, and served as the Anglican Bishop of Diocese of North China, North China. Russell, son of Marcus Carew Russell, by Fanny Potts, was born at Ballydavid House, Littleton, County Tipperary, Littleton, County Tipperary, Ireland, in 1821, and was educated at Midleton College, Midleton School, County Cork, and at Trinity College, Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained by Bishop Charles James Blomfield in 1847, and as a missionary in connection with the Church Missionary Society went to China in that year in company with Robert Henry Cobbold, afterwards archdeacon of Ningbo. These two men were the first Protestant missionaries in Ningbo. Russell translated into the Ningbo dialect the greater part of the New Testament, portions of the Old Testament, and the Book of Common Prayer, besides writing many tracts and essays. He was appointed the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North China
North China, or Huabei () is a List of regions of China, geographical region of China, consisting of the provinces of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia. Part of the larger region of Northern China (''Beifang''), it lies north of the Qinling–Huaihe Line, with its heartland in the North China Plain. In modern times, the area has shifted in terms of socio-political and economic composition. Nowadays unique, embracing a North Chinese culture, it is influenced by Marxism, Soviet Union, Soviet systems of industry while preserving a traditional Chinese indigenous culture. Agriculturally, the region cultivates wheat. Most inhabitants here speak variants of Northern Chinese languages such as Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin, which includes Beijing dialect and its cousin variants. The Beijing dialect is largely the basis of Standard Chinese (or Standard Mandarin), the official language of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Jin Chinese and Mongolian language, Mongolian ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Anglican Dioceses Established In The 19th Century")
