List of missionaries to the South Pacific

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

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