Several mission societies, including the Baptist Missionary Society, SPCK, LMS, Basel Mission, CMS, SPG, Zenana mission, Medical Mission, American Mission, Danish Mission, and Methodist Mission missionaries have contributed for the progressive Christian community in India. These missionaries have made a vast contributions in the districts of

Tinnevelly Tirunelveli (, ta, திருநெல்வேலி, translit=Tirunelveli) also known as Nellai ( ta, நெல்லை, translit=Nellai) and historically (during British rule) as Tinnevelly, is a major city in the Indian state of Tami ...

and

Travancore The Kingdom of Travancore ( /ˈtrævənkɔːr/), also known as the Kingdom of Thiruvithamkoor, was an Indian kingdom from c. 1729 until 1949. It was ruled by the Travancore Royal Family from Padmanabhapuram, and later Thiruvananthapuram. At ...

, which covers most of the southern

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...

. These missions were mostly influenced under the direct control of the

Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain ...

. The following is an incomplete list of Protestant missionaries in India.

Missionaries

* Rev.

John Anderson John Anderson may refer to: Business *John Anderson (Scottish businessman) (1747–1820), Scottish merchant and founder of Fermoy, Ireland * John Byers Anderson (1817–1897), American educator, military officer and railroad executive, mentor of ...

- Missionary from Church of Scotland - Founder - Madras Christian College * Elizabeth Baring-Gould * Rev. B. Baring-Gould - CMS Missionary * Rev.

Graham Basanti Graham Basanti a.k.a. M. G. Basanti is a Silver jubilee Woman priest and the first''Four women ordained as pastors at Indian Lutheran Church - A dream come true in the service of the Church of India - Historical ordination of four women at Mad ...

- women missionary at

Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church is a major Lutheran Christian denomination in India. It was established in 1882. At that time, the founder of The Schleswig Holstein Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society of Germany (SHELM) in Germany was Pastor ...

* Rev. James Kershaw Best - SPG missionary at Christianagaram *

Paul Olaf Bodding Paul Olaf Bodding (2 November 1865 – 25 September 1938) was a Norwegian missionary, linguist and folklorist. Biography Paul Olaf Bodding was born at Gjøvik in Oppland, Norway. He was the son of Edward Olsen Bodding (1825–1905) and Betz ...

* Paul Wilson Brand * Miss Kathleen Nora Brockway - Founder of St. Christopher's College of Education, Chennai * Edith Mary Brown * Nathan Brown * Rev. Augustus Frederick Caemmerer - SPG missionary * Ann Caemmerer - Started the first Girls High School in South India - St. Johns Girls High School, Nazareth - Daughter of Rev. Charles Mead - and Wife of Rev. A.F. Caemmerer *

Robert Caldwell Robert Caldwell (7 May 1814 – 28 August 1891) was a missionary for London Missionary Society. He arrived in India at age 24, studied the local language to spread the word of Bible in a vernacular language, studies that led him to author a tex ...

* Eliza Caldwell - Wife of Robert Caldwell, and Daughter of Rev. Charles Mault * William Carey *

Amy Carmichael Amy Beatrice Carmichael (16 December 1867 – 18 January 1951) was an Irish Christian missionary in India who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur. She served in India for 55 years and wrote 35 books about her work as a miss ...

* Rev. Robert Carver - Methodist Missionary * Alexander Crawford - first Presbyterian missionary to India (1823–29) * Alexander Duff * Rev. James Duthie - LMS Missionary to Travancore * Rt. Rev. James Edward

Lesslie Newbigin James Edward Lesslie Newbigin (8 December 1909 – 30 January 1998) was a British theologian, missiologist, missionary and author. Though originally ordained within the Church of Scotland, Newbigin spent much of his career serving as a mis ...

- Ordained in

Church of Scotland The Church of Scotland ( sco, The Kirk o Scotland; gd, Eaglais na h-Alba) is the national church in Scotland. The Church of Scotland was principally shaped by John Knox, in the Scottish Reformation, Reformation of 1560, when it split from t ...

; affiliated with the

United Reformed Church The United Reformed Church (URC) is a Protestant Christian church in the United Kingdom. As of 2022 it has approximately 40,000 members in 1,284 congregations with 334 stipendiary ministers. Origins and history The United Reformed Church resulte ...

; served in the

Church of South India The Church of South India (CSI) is a united Protestant Church in India. It is the result of union of a number of mainline Protestant denominations in South India after independence. The Church of South India is the successor of a number of Pr ...

* Abraham Friesen & Maria Friesen -

Mennonite Brethren The Mennonite Brethren Church is an evangelical Mennonite Anabaptist movement with Wiktionary:congregation, congregations. History The conference was established among Plautdietsch language, Plautdietsch-speaking Russian Mennonites in 1860. Durin ...

Missionary from South Russia in

Nalgonda Nalgonda is a city and municipality in the Indian state of Telangana. It is the headquarters of the Nalgonda district, as well as the headquarters of the Nalgonda mandal in the Nalgonda revenue division. It is located about from the state ca ...

Hyderabad State Hyderabad State () was a princely state located in the south-central Deccan region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and t ...

. * Christian William Gericke - S.P.C.K. Missionar * James Glasgow (1805–90) - early missionary from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (1841-1864) *

Anthony Norris Groves Anthony Norris Groves (1 February 1795 – 20 May 1853) was an English Protestant missionary, who has been called the "father of faith missions". He launched the first Protestant mission to Arabic-speaking Muslims, and settled in Baghdad, and la ...

* Johann Ernst Gründler * Rev. Dr.

Hermann Gundert Hermann Gundert ( Stuttgart, 4 February 1814 – 25 April 1893 in Calw, Germany) was a German missionary, scholar, and linguist, as well as the maternal grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse. Gundert is chiefly kno ...

- German linguist and Basel missionary to India * John Christian Frederick Heyer *

Sam Higginbottom Samuel Higginbottom (27 October 1874 – 11 June 1958) was an English-born Christian missionary in Allahabad (now Prayagraj), India, where he founded the Allahabad Agricultural Institute. Higginbottom was born in Manchester, England.

John Nelson Hyde John Nelson Hyde (November 9, 1865 – February 17, 1912), known as John Hyde, was an American missionary who preached in the Punjab. Biography Born in Illinois, the son of a Presbyterian minister, this minister prayed that God would raise up mor ...

Lyman Jewett Lyman Jewett (March 9, 1813 – January 7, 1897) was an American Baptist Churches USA, American Baptist missionary known for translating the Bible into Telugu language, Telugu. Background Born in Waterford, Maine, Jewett studied at Worceste ...

* E. Stanley Jones * Rev. James F. Kearns - Missionary at Puthiamputhur * Samuel H. Kellogg - translator of Hindi Bible * Alexander Kerr - early missionary from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (1841) * Rev. Draviam Koilpillai - Headmaster of St. Aidan's College at Natal (S. Africa), Military Chaplain at Mesapotamia, & a friend of M.K. Gandhi - Missionary at Nazareth * Rev. Dr.

Eugen Liebendörfer Eugen Liebendörfer (born 16 February 1852 in Leutkirch; died 3 October 1902 in Stuttgart) was the first German missionary doctor in India as part of the Basel Mission. He was also a co-founder of the Association for Medical Mission at Stuttgar ...

- German physician and Basel missionary to India * James Long -

Church Missionary Society The Church Mission Society (CMS), formerly known as the Church Missionary Society, is a British mission society working with the Christians around the world. Founded in 1799, CMS has attracted over nine thousand men and women to serve as mission ...

missionary *

Joshua Marshman Joshua Marshman (20 April 1768 – 6 December 1837) was a British Christian missionary in Bengal, India. His mission involved social reforms and intellectual debates with educated Hindus such as Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Origins Joshua Marshman was b ...

Henry Martyn Henry Martyn (18 February 1781 – 16 October 1812) was an Anglican priest and missionary to the peoples of India and Persia. Born in Truro, Cornwall, he was educated at Truro Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. A chance encount ...

missionary * Rev. Charles Mead - LMS Missionary to Travancore * Rev Charles Mault - LMS Missionary to Travancore * Rev.

Arthur Margoschis Benjamin Henry Arthur Margoschis (24 December 1852 – 27 April 1908) was a Protestant Christian missionary in India. He served the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) as an overseas missionary in India. The inhabitant ...

Nazareth, Tamil Nadu Nazareth is a town in the Thoothukudi district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Geography Nazareth is situated near the southern tip of the country. It was named by early Christian missionaries in memory of the city of Nazareth Israel, whe ...

- SPG missionary * Rev. Murdoch Mackenzie - originally from the

Congregational Church Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches or Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Calvinist tradition practising congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its ...

; ordained in the

* Rev. Volbrecht Nagel - German missionary to India * George Pieritz - SPG missionary * Jessie Kelp (later Jessie Pigott) in Allahabad and Delhi (1887-9) * Rev. Luke Rivington - Missionary at Edeyengoody *

Ida S. Scudder Dr. Ida Sophia Scudder (December 9, 1870 – May 24, 1960) was a third-generation American medical missionary in India. She dedicated her life to the plight of Indian women and the fight against bubonic plague, cholera and leprosy. In 1918, sh ...

Lars Olsen Skrefsrud Lars Olsen Skrefsrud (4 February 1840 – 11 December 1910) was a Norwegian Lutheran missionary and language researcher in India. Biography Skrefsrud came from the parish of Fåberg situated north of Lillehammer in Oppland, Norway. As a youn ...

Graham Staines Graham Stuart Staines (18 January 1941 – 23 January 1999) was an Australian Christian missionary, who along with his two sons, Philip (aged 10) and Timothy (aged 6), was burnt to death in India by members of a Hindu fundamentalist group named ...

* Alfred Sturge * Rev. Ellis O. Shaw - from the

; served in the

* Rev. Dr. J.M. Strachan - Medical Mission at

- SPG missionary - Bishop of Rangoon * Rev. John Alfred Sharrock - SPG missionary * Ralph T. Templin * Rev. Adam Compton Thomson - SPG missionary * Rev. Simeon Wilberforce O'Neill * Rev.

Henry Constantine Huxtable Henry Constantine Huxtable (8 March 1826 – 1871) was Bishop of Mauritius The Bishop of Mauritius () has been the Ordinary of the Anglican Church in Mauritius in the Indian Ocean since its inception in 1854. The current bishop is Ian Ernest, w ...

- SPG missionary at Sawyerpuram and Christianagaram * Rev. Christian Samuel Kohloff - SPG missionary at Christianagaram * Rev. H. B. Norman - SPG missionary at

Mudalur Mudalur is a village in the Thoothukudi District of India. It was the first purely Christian settlement. It was formed by Mission (Christianity), missionaries in South India with 28 Christians. Today it has a population of more than 4,500 people ...

* Rev. James Hough - Chaplain of Palamcottah - Honourable East India Company * Rev. John Thomas - C.M.S. Missionary of Prakasapuram and Mengnanapuram - called as Apostle of South Tirunelveli * Rev. Schaffter - C.M.S. Missionary * Sarah Tucker - C.M.S. Missionary * Rev. John Thomas Tucker - C.M.S. Missionary at Paneivilei, Tinnevelly * Thomas Gajetan Ragland - C.M.S. Missionary at North Tinnevelly * Rev.

William Tobias Ringeltaube William Tobias Ringeltaube, or Wilhelm Tobias Ringeltaube (1770- ?) was the first Protestant missionary in the far south of India. He spent much of his time in Travancore. He was the first child of Gottlieb Ringeltaube, Vicar of Scheidelwitz (tod ...

- LMS Missionary to Travancore * J.T. Margoschis - SPG Missionary - Principal - SPG High School - Trichinopoly *

Reginald Heber Reginald Heber (21 April 1783 – 3 April 1826) was an English Anglican bishop, man of letters and hymn-writer. After 16 years as a country parson, he served as Bishop of Calcutta until his death at the age of 42. The son of a rich lando ...

- Bishop of Calcutta *

Christian Friedrich Schwarz Christian Frederick Schwarz (with spellings including Friedrich and Schwartz or Swartz) (8 October 1726 – 13 February 1798) was a German Lutheran missionary to India. He was known for his linguistic skills, with knowledge of Latin, Greek, Hebre ...

- German S.P.C.K. Missionary * Joseph Daniel Jaenicke - German S.P.C.K. Missionary * Dr. Christopher Samuel John - Danish Mission * John Caspar Kohlhoff - S.P.C.K. Missionary * Dr. C.S. Shelton - American Madura Mission * Dr. Steele - American Madura Mission * Rev. William Miller - Missionary from Church of Scotland - Madras Christian College * Lady White - Methodist Missionary * Miss Katie Wilcox - American Board of Congregational Churches - Founder of Lady Doak College, Madurai * Miss Eleanor McDougall - Missionary Educator - Founder Principal of Women's Christian College - Madras
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* Rev.

Benjamin Schultze Benjamin Schultze (1689-1760) was a Christian missionary of the Danish-Halle Mission in South India"Schultze, Benjamin" in Gerald H. Anderson (ed), ''Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions'' (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1999) p.604 ...

- Translated and printed Old Testament - Bible, in Tamil. * Johann Fabricius - Translated and printed New Testament - Bible, in Tamil * Rev. Dr. J. P. Rottler - Danish Mission * Rev.

Peter Percival Peter Percival (24 July 1803 – 11 July 1882) was a British born missionary and educator who opened religious schools in Sri Lanka and South India during the British colonial era.) During his stay in Jaffna, he led the effort to translate the ...

- Wesleyan Methodist Mission * Rev. David Rosen - Danish Missionary - Has worked at Nicobar Islands, Nazareth and Mudalur * Rev. John Ludovick Irion - Netherland Missionary Society - Has worked at Nazareth and Mudalur * Rev. Thomas Brotherton - Missionary at Tanjore, Madras, and Nazareth * Rev. Carlin Wilfred Weston - Missionary at Nazareth * Rev. Cecil George Stapley - Missionary at Nazareth * Rev. Stephen Charles Neill - Nazareth Station - Bishop of Tinnevelly * Rev. Charles Hubbard - First English Missionary employed by S.P.G. in Tinnevelly * Mason Vaugh and Clara Pennington - Founder of Allahabad Agricultural Institute * Elmer Whitcomb and Adella Rodeheffer - Founder of Evangelical Hospital, Tilda * Harwood W Raw, 1871-1905 - Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society served in Madras from 1896 until his premature death in 1905 * Rev. William Tobias Ringeltaube, (1770- ?) - London Missionary Society served in the then South Travancore, present revenue district of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu * Dr. Boaz Kok Ph.D - Assemblies of God * Rev. Robert Turlington Noble - Founder of Noble College, Machilipatnam *

Hopestill Pillow Hopestill Harland Pillow (28 June 1857 – 28 May 1895) was a Baptist missionary to India. Early life Pillow was born in 1857 in Lewisham, Kent, England. She was the third child of Thomas Pillow and Ann Aspin. New Zealand Pillow emigrated wi ...

- Zenana Missionary to India * William Arthur Stanton -

American Baptist American Baptist may refer to: * American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA), formed (as the Northern Baptist Convention) in 1907 * American Baptist Association, formed 1924 * American Baptist College, Nashville, Tennessee, formed 1924 by the National B ...

Missionary in South Indian town of Kurnool of Andhra Pradesh. * N N Hiebert - Mennonite Brethren Missionary from south Russia in Hyderabad State * Elizabeth Neufeld - Mennonite Brethren Missionary in Hyderabad * Anna Suderman - Mennonite Brethren Missionary in Hyderabad * John H. and Maria Pankratz - Mennonite Brethren Missionary in Hyderabad * Rev. A. Brotherton Vickers - SPG missionary * William Ward * Rev. G.T. Washburn - American Madura Mission * William Keith Whitcomb and Dorothy Vaugh - United Church Board for World Ministries *

Charlotte White Charlotte White (July 13, 1782 – December 25, 1863), also known as Charlotte Atlee and Charlotte Rowe, was the first American woman appointed as a missionary and sent to a foreign country. She was sponsored by the Baptist Board of Foreign Mission ...

- first unmarried American woman missionary * H. U. Weitbrecht -

missionary, author of "The Revision of the Urdu New Testament" * Sister Joyce M. Woollard * Rev. Joseph Light Wyatt - SPG missionary - Bishop Heber College * Isabella Wyatt - Wife of Rev. J.L. Wyatt, and the eldest daughter of Robert Caldwell *

Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (10 July 1682 – 23 February 1719) was a member of the Lutheran clergy and the first Pietist missionary to India. Early life Ziegenbalg was born in Pulsnitz, Saxony, on 10 July 1682 in a devout Christian family. His f ...

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