Shanghai, Missionary District of
William Jones Boone was consecrated the first Missionary Bishop of China on Oct. 26, 1844. The 1874 General Convention changed the title from China to the “Missionary Bishop of Shanghai, having Episcopal jurisdiction in China.” The 1901 General Convention divided China into the Missionary Districts of Shanghai and Hankow. On Apr. 26, 1912, the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui, the Holy Catholic Church in China, was formed by the merger of American, Canadian and English missionary districts. In 1949 it became the Diocese of Kiangsu in the Holy Catholic Church in China.
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