This is a list of missionaries to the South Pacific islands. See also

Bible translations into Oceanic languages Bible translations into Oceanic languages have a relatively closely related and recent history. Language family Oceanic The Oceanic languages tree also encompasses other languages, such as Fijian language, Fijian. Pama-Nyungan and other Indigeno ...

Protestant

* Charles Scarborough (1927–2002) from England to Gilbert Islands *

Samuel Marsden Samuel Marsden (25 June 1765 – 12 May 1838) was an English-born priest of the Church of England in Australia and a prominent member of the Church Missionary Society, believed to have introduced Christianity to New Zealand. Marsden was a prom ...

(1765–1838) - from England to Australia *

Henry Nott Henry Nott (1774–1844) was a British Protestant Christian missionary who lived and worked in Tahiti, in the Society Islands in Polynesia. Life Nott was one of the first missionaries sent out by the London Missionary Society, arriving in Tahiti a ...

(1774–1844) - from Britain to

Tahiti Tahiti (; Tahitian ; ; previously also known as Otaheite) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. It is located in the central part of the Pacific Ocean and the nearest major landmass is Austr ...

Thomas Kendall Thomas Kendall (13 December 1778 – 6 August 1832) was a New Zealand missionary, recorder of the Māori language, schoolmaster, arms dealer, and Pākehā Māori. Early life: Lincolnshire and London, 1778–1813 A younger son of farmer Edw ...

(1778–1832) - from England to

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

Lancelot Edward Threlkeld Lancelot Edward Threlkeld (20 October 1788 – 10 October 1859) was an English missionary, primarily based in Australia. He was married twice and survived by sons and daughters from both marriages. Thelkeld is known for his work with Biraban i ...

(1788–1859) - from England to Tahiti and Australia *

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(1792–1867) - from England to New Zealand *

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(1796–1839) - from England to

and

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono an ...

Robert Clark Morgan Robert Clark Morgan (13 March 1798 – 23 September 1864) was an English sea captain, whaler, diarist, and, in later life, a missionary. He captained the ''Duke of York (1817 ship), Duke of York'', bringing the first settlers to South Australia ...

(1798–1864) - ship captain to South Australia, New Hebrides * George Platt (missionary) - from England? to Tahiti and Samoa (not to be confused with George Pratt) *

Aaron Buzacott Aaron Buzacott the elder (4 March 1800 – 20 September 1864) was a British missionary, Congregationalist colleague of John Williams (the 'Martyr of Erromanga'), author of ethnographic works and co-translator of the Bible into Cook Islands ...

(1800–1864) - from England to

Rarotonga Rarotonga is the largest and most populous of the Cook Islands. The island is volcanic, with an area of , and is home to almost 75% of the country's population, with 13,007 of a total population of 17,434. The Cook Islands' Parliament buildings a ...

Alfred Nesbitt Brown Alfred Nesbit Brown (23 October 1803 – 7 September 1884) was a member of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) and one of a number of missionaries who travelled to New Zealand in the early 19th century to bring Christianity to the Māori pe ...

(1803–1884) - from England to New Zealand *

William Gilbert Puckey William Gilbert Puckey (5 May 1805 – 27 March 1878), born in Penryn, England, was a missionary in New Zealand. He accompanied his parents to New Zealand at the age of 14. He became widely regarded as one of the best interpreters of Māori i ...

(1805–1878) - from England to New Zealand *

George Augustus Selwyn George Augustus Selwyn (5 April 1809 – 11 April 1878) was the first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand. He was Bishop of New Zealand (which included Melanesia) from 1841 to 1869. His diocese was then subdivided and Selwyn was Metropolitan (later ...

(1809–1878) - first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand *

Thomas Powell (botanist) Thomas Powell (18 June 1817 – 6 April 1887) was a British missionary sent by the London Missionary Society (LMS) in 1844 to Samoa where he remained for 43 years. He was interested in botany, zoology and anthropology and was elected as a Fello ...

(1809–1887) - from England to Samoa *

William Colenso William Colenso (17 November 1811 – 10 February 1899) FRS was a Cornish Christian missionary to New Zealand, and also a printer, botanist, explorer and politician. He attended the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and later wrote an accou ...

(1811–1899) - from England to New Zealand *

Samuel Wilson (missionary translator) Samuel Wilson (September 13, 1766 – July 31, 1854) was an American meat packer who lived in Troy, New York, whose name is purportedly the source of the personification of the United States known as "Uncle Sam". Biography Wilson was born in the ...

(c.1812 – after 1840) - from Tahiti (English) to Samoa * William Charles Cotton (1813–1879) - from England to New Zealand *

Octavius Hadfield Octavius Hadfield (6 October 1814 – 11 December 1904) was Archdeacon of Kapiti, Bishop of Wellington from 1870 to 1893 and Primate of New Zealand from 1890 to 1893. He was a member of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) for thirty years. H ...

(1814–1904) - from Isle of Wight to New Zealand *

John Geddie (missionary) John Geddie (10 April 1815 – 14 December 1872) was a Scots-Canadian missionary who was known as "the father of Presbyterian missions in the South Sea Islands, South Seas."Eugene Myers Harrison, ''John Geddie: Messenger of the Love of Christ in E ...

(1815–1872) - from Canada to

Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of no ...

Charles Hardie Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...

(c.1816 – after 1843) - from England to Samoa * George Pratt (1817–1894) - from England to Samoa *

George Turner (missionary) George Turner (1818 – 19 May 1891) was an English missionary, active in Samoa and elsewhere in the South Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the ...

(1818–1891) - from England to Samoa *

Carl Sylvius Völkner Carl Sylvius Völkner ( – 2 March 1865) was a German-born Protestant missionary in New Zealand who was hanged and decapitated at his church grounds on the east coast of the North Island in what became known as the Völkner Incident. Biograp ...

(c. 1819–1865) - from Germany to New Zealand *

Carl Wilhelm Schmidt Reverend Carl Wilhelm Schmidt (died 1864), also known as Karl Schmidt, was a German missionary, and an ordained minister of the Prussian United Church. Schmidt's missionary work took him to Queensland and Samoa, where he founded a number of Luth ...

(?–1864) - from Germany to Queensland and Samoa *

William Bambridge William Samuel Bambridge (24 October 1819 – 1 May 1879) was a school-teacher who accompanied George Augustus Selwyn and William Charles Cotton in the Te Waimate mission, New Zealand, before returning to England where he became photograph ...

(1820–1879) - from England to New Zealand *

Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso Elizabeth Colenso (; 29 August 1821 – 2 September 1904) was a missionary, teacher and Bible translator in New Zealand. Early life Elizabeth Fairburn was born at the New Zealand Church Missionary Society, Church Missionary Society (CMS) statio ...

(1821–1904) - from England to New Zealand * George N. Gordon (1822–1861) - from Canada to

John Gibson Paton John Gibson Paton (24 May 1824 – 28 January 1907), born in Scotland, was a Protestant missionary to the New Hebrides Islands of the South Pacific. He brought to the natives of the New Hebrides education and Christianity. He developed small in ...

(1824–1907) - from Scotland to New Hebrides *

John Coleridge Patteson John Coleridge Patteson (1 April 1827 – 20 September 1871) was an English Anglicanism, Anglican bishop, missionary to the South Sea Islands, and an accomplished linguist, learning 23 of the islands' more than 1,000 languages. In 1861, P ...

(1827–1871) - from England to

Bishop of Melanesia The Archbishop of Melanesia is the spiritual head of the Church of the Province of Melanesia, which is a province of the Anglican Communion in the South Pacific region, covering the nations of Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. From 1861 until the inaugu ...

* Peter Milne (missionary) (1834-1924) - from

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

to New Hebrides *

George Brown George Brown may refer to: Arts and entertainment * George Loring Brown (1814–1889), American landscape painter * George Douglas Brown (1869–1902), Scottish novelist * George Williams Brown (1894–1963), Canadian historian and editor * G ...

(1835–1917) - from England to Samoa *

Shirley Waldemar Baker Shirley Waldemar Baker (1836 – 16 November 1903) was a Methodist missionary in Tonga. He was the founder of the Free Church of Tonga and enjoyed significant influence during the reign of George Tupou I, who made him prime minister. Early life ...

(1836–1903) - from England to Australia and

Tonga Tonga (, ; ), officially the Kingdom of Tonga ( to, Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is a Polynesian country and archipelago. The country has 171 islands – of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about , scattered over in ...

* James Cosh (1838–1900) - from Scotland to Vanuatu * William George Lawes (1839–1907) - from England to

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

* James Chalmers (1841–1901) - from

to New Hebrides and New Guinea * Oscar Michelsen (1844–1936) - from Norway to Vanuatu *

Florence Young Florence Selina Harriet Young (10 October 1856 – 28 May 1940) was a New Zealand-born missionary who established the Queensland Kanaka Mission in order to convert Kanaka (Pacific Island worker), Kanaka labourers in Queensland, Australia. In addit ...

(1856–1940) - from New Zealand to China and the Solomon Islands * Joseph Copeland (1866-1876) - from Scotland to Vanuatu ( Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna) * John William Gunn (1883-1918) - from Scotland to Vanuatu ( Futuna) * Philip Delaporte - from Germany to

Nauru Nauru ( or ; na, Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru ( na, Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Oceania, in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Ki ...

* David Hand (1918–2006) - first Anglican Bishop of

* J. Graham Miller (1913–2008) - from New Zealand and Australia, to New Hebrides * Don Richardson (1935–2018) - from Canada, to

Netherlands New Guinea Dutch New Guinea or Netherlands New Guinea ( nl, Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea, id, Nugini Belanda) was the western half of the island of New Guinea that was a part of the Dutch East Indies until 1949, later an overseas territory of the Kingdo ...

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