Christianity in Shanghai

Christianity is a minority faith in Shanghai, a municipality in China.

Shanghai has the highest proportion of Catholic residents of any province-level division in mainland China (2003).^{[1][unreliable source]} The Roman Catholic Diocese of Shanghai has churches including St. Ignatius Cathedral of Shanghai and She Shan Basilica. Shanghai has far more Christians than Jews. The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, which is close to the governing party Christian Democratic Union (Germany) of Germany, has an office in Shanghai.^[2]

List of Protestant missionaries in Shanghai

Below is a selection of historic Protestant missionaries in Shanghai:

• Young John Allen
• William Jones Boone
• William Jones Boone, Jr.
• Joseph Edkins
• Frederick Rogers Graves
• Walter Russell Lambuth
• William Lockhart
• Walter Lowrie
• Walter Henry Medhurst
• William Muirhead
• Francis Lister Hawks Pott
• Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky
• James Hudson Taylor
• Matthew Tyson Yates

See also

• Shanghighlander
• Christianity in Shanghai's neighbouring provinces
  • Christianity in Jiangsu
  • Christianity in Zhejiang