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List of missionaries to the South Pacific

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This is a list of missionaries to the South Pacific islands. See also Bible translations into Oceanic languages.

Protestant

  • Samuel Marsden (1765–1838) from England to Australia
  • Henry Nott (1774–1844) from Britain to Tahiti
  • Thomas Kendall (1778–1832) from England to New Zealand
  • Lancelot Edward Threlkeld (1788–1859) from England to Tahiti and Australia
  • Henry Williams (1792–1867) from England to New Zealand
  • John Williams (1796–1839) from England to Tahiti and Samoa
  • Robert Clark Morgan (1798–1864) ship captain to South Australia, New Hebrides
  • Aaron Buzacott (1800–1864) from England to Rarotonga
  • Alfred Nesbitt Brown (1803–1884) from England to New Zealand
  • William Gilbert Puckey (1805–1878) from England to New Zealand
  • George Augustus Selwyn (1809–1878) first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand
  • William Colenso (1811–1899) from England to New Zealand
  • William Charles Cotton (1813–1879) from England to New Zealand
  • Octavius Hadfield (1814–1904) from Isle of Wight to New Zealand
  • John Geddie (missionary) (1815–1872) from Canada to Vanuatu
  • Carl Sylvius Völkner (c. 1819–1865) from Germany to New Zealand
  • Carl Wilhelm Schmidt (?–1864) from Germany to Queensland and Samoa
  • William Bambridge (1820–1879) from England to New Zealand
  • Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso (1821–1904) from England to New Zealand
  • George N. Gordon (1822–1861) from Canada to Vanuatu
  • John Gibson Paton (1824–1907) from England to New Hebrides
  • John Coleridge Patteson (1827–1871) from England to Bishop of Melanesia
  • George Brown (1835–1917) from England to Samoa
  • Shirley Waldemar Baker (1836–1903) from England to Australia and Tonga
  • James Cosh (1838–1900), from Scotland to Vanuatu
  • George Pratt (?-after 1862) from England to Samoa
  • William George Lawes (1839–1907) from England to Papua New Guinea
  • James Chalmers (1841–1901) from Scotland to New Hebrides and New Guinea
  • Oscar Michelsen (1844–1936) from Norway to Vanuatu
  • Florence Young (1856–1940) from New Zealand to China and the Solomon Islands
  • Philip Delaporte (?) from Germany to Nauru
  • David Hand (1918–2006) first Anglican Bishop of Papua New Guinea
  • J. Graham Miller (1913–2008) from New Zealand and Australia, to New Hebrides
  • Don Richardson (born 1935) from Canada, to Netherlands New Guinea

    • References

    List of missionaries to the South Pacific Wikipedia
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