Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui
Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui (Chinese: 中華聖公會), known in English as the Holy Catholic Church in China or Anglican-Episcopal Province of China, was the name of the Anglican church in China from 1912 to the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949.
The Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui was established on 26 April 1912 by the merger of the various mission activities of the Church of England, the Episcopal Church of the United States, Anglican Church of Canada and other Anglican provinces into one autonomous jurisdiction.[1] The merger of the respective Anglican missionary initiatives in China into one national church echoed similar steps that were taken in 1887 to establish the Nippon Sei Ko Kai or Anglican Church in Japan.
After 1949, its dioceses in Hong Kong and Macao became the Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao, later reorganized as an independent Anglican province, the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. Those who fled to Taiwan with the Chinese Nationalists established the Episcopal Diocese of Taiwan, a diocese of the Episcopal Church of the United States.
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Anglican mission initiatives in China prior to 1912
- Church of England missionary initiatives referred to as The Church in China (1849 - 1912)
- Episcopal Church missionary initiatives referred to as the Protestant Episcopal Church Mission (1835 - 1912)
Dioceses
- Victoria Diocese (1842) had the church of St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong
- Hong Kong-Macao Diocese (South China Mission, 1849)
- Che Kiang Diocese (Chekiang Mission, 1872) had the church of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai under the Bishop of Chekiang.
- Hua Pei Diocese (1880) had the churches of Holy Saviour's Cathedral - the Diocesan Cathedral) in Beijing, All Saints' Church in Tianjin, and Dalian Anglican Church in Dalian.
- Hua Hsi Diocese (West China Mission, 1895)
- Shan Tung Diocese (Shantung Mission, 1903)
- Fu Kien Diocese (Fukien Mission, 1906)
- Kui Hsiang Diocese (Kwanghsi-Hunan Mission, 1909)
- Yun Kui Diocese (Yunnan-Kuichou Mission, 1947)
Church in China
The Church in China is the name by which Anglican Missions under the jurisdiction of the Church of England were called between 1849 and 1949.[2] Bishops' jurisdictions included
- Shensi
- Chekiang
- Diocese of North China
- Szechwan
- Shantung
- Fukien
- Honan
- Kwangsi and Hunan
- Mid-China
- Western China
See also
- Christianity in China
- Protestantism in China
- Diocese of North China
- Anglican diocese of Shanghai
- Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao
- Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong
- Anglican Communion
- Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui
- Taiwan Episcopal Church
- Church of England Zenana Missionary Society
References
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- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory. OUP, 1948; pp. 2000-2003
External links
- CSCA Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui Source Documents
- A Short History of Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui (in Chinese)
- Historical documents on Anglicanism in China from Project Canterbury
