Melanesian Mission c.1848-1981

Melanesian Mission

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Member of the Church of England Missionary and Ecumenical Council. From the description of Records of the Melanesian Mission, 1890-1932 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152310 ...

Southern Cross (missionary vessel) 1855-1855

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Codrington, R. H. (Robert Henry), 1830-1922

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Robert Henry Codrington was born on the 15 September 1830 in Wroughton, Wiltshire, England. He was educated at Charterhouse, and Wadham College, Oxford (he became a Fellow of the College in 1855). He was ordained as a Deacon in 1855 and as a Priest in 1857. In 1860 Codrington emigrated to Nelson, New Zealand, and joined the Melanesian Mission; he was head of the Mission from 1871 to 1877. He travelled throughout Melanesia making the first systematic study of Melanesian s...

Patteson, John Coleridge, 1827-1871

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John Coleridge Patteson, 1827-1871, first missionary bishop in Melanesia, was born in England and ordained in 1853. In 1855 he left England for Auckland and in 1856 made his first voyage to Melanesia where he initiated a scheme of educating Melanesian boys in New Zealand and Norfolk Island. In 1861 Patteson was consecrated bishop and in addition to his religious and educative pursuits, studied Melanesian languages. Patteson was killed on the island of Nukapu in 1871. From the descrip...

Selwyn, J. R., 1844-1898

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Epithet: Bishop of Melanesia British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x00020a ...

Church of the Province of Melanesia

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In 1854, at the recommendation of Bishop George Augustus Selwyn, Melanesia was created as a separate "See" which Bishop Selwyn toured in 1857 in the mission ship Southern Cross, visiting sixty-six of the islands. John Coleridge Patteson was consecrated Bishop of Melanesia in 1861. Patteson and several of his companions were killed on 20 September 1871 on the island of Nakapu, in the Santa Cruz group, after slave-raiders had visited the area. In 1867, the Mission college at Mission Bay, Auckland,...

Selwyn, George Augustus, 1809-1878

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Missionary, Bishop of New Zealand, metropolitan. From the description of Papers, 1838-1948 (inclusive) [microform]. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 81802700 Selwyn was the first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand, 1841-1868. He travelled widely throughout his vast diocese to promote Christainity among the Maoris and in Melanesia. From the description of George Augustus Selwyn papers [microform], 1831-1906. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702690794 ...