Protestant missionary
Faith-spreading foreign worker
A Protestant missionary is a person sent by a Protestant church or organization to spread Christianity in other regions, typically through preaching, education, and humanitarian work.
The term often evokes 19th-century colonial-era figures establishing churches and schools in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific: Protestant missionaries translated the Bible into hundreds of indigenous languages.
Unlike Catholic missionaries organized under Rome, Protestant missionaries represent diverse denominations with varying approaches to evangelism.
- EvangelismSpreading religious belief systematically
- AfricaSecond-largest continent
- colonial eraAge of overseas dominion
- church plantingEstablishing new religious communities
- unreached peoplesGroups without indigenous believers
saving souls · Asia · Reformation · North America · David Livingstone · South America · Bible translation · native speakers · Bible study · Calvinism · Humanitarian aid · Europe · Oceania · Middle East · Lutheranism · Anglicanism · Methodism · Pentecostalism
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Religious converter sent abroad
Catholic priest · Buddhist monk · nun · imam · rabbi
Protestant missionarysecular humanist
One embracing nontheistic ethics
Protestant missionaryparish priest
Local church leader
cloistered nun · Catholic priest · nun · monk · hermit
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