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Missionaries preaching under kukui groves, 1841

This is a list of missionaries to Hawaii. Before European exploration, the Hawaiian religion was brought from Tahiti by Paʻao according to oral tradition. Notable missionaries with written records below are generally Christian.

Protestant

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

Several groups were sent from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

The first ABCFM company arrived on March 30, 1820, on the Thaddeus from Boston:[1][2]

Hiram Bingham I
  • Rev. Hiram Bingham I (1789–1869), father of Hiram Bingham II and grandfather of Hiram Bingham III
  • Sybil Moseley Bingham (1792–1848), wife of Hiram Bingham I
  • Rev. Asa Thurston (1787–1868), grandfather of businessman and politician Lorrin A. Thurston
  • Lucy Goodale (1795–1876), wife of Asa Thurston

The second ABCFM company arrived on April 23, 1823, on the Thames from New Haven:[3]

Lorrin Andrews

The third ABCFM company arrived on March 30, 1828, on the Parthian from Boston:[4]

The fourth ABCFM company arrived June 7, 1831 on the New England from New Bedford:[5]

The fifth ABCFM company arrived May 17, 1832 on the Averick from Boston:[7]

The sixth ABCFM company arrived on May 1, 1833, on the Mentor:[8]

The seventh ABCFM company arrived on June 6, 1835, on the Hellespont:[9]

The eighth ABCFM company arrived on April 9, 1837, on the Mary Frasier from Boston:[11]

John D. Paris

The ninth ABCFM company arrived on May 21, 1841, on the Gloucester:[12]

The tenth ABCFM company arrived on September 24, 1842, on the Sarah Abagail from Boston:[13]

  • Rev. Samuel Chenery Damon (1815–1885), publisher of "The Friend". Arrived on October 19, 1842, on the Sarah Abagail from New York:[13]

Arrived on September 21, 1843, from Boston, originally intended on going to Oregon:[13]

The eleventh ABCFM company arrived July 15, 1844 on the Globe from Boston:[14]

The twelfth ABCFM company arrived February 26, 1848 on the Samoset from Boston:[15]

Arrived in 1854, intended for Micronesia on the Chaica:[16]

London Missionary Society

From the London Missionary Society (deputation of British missionaries and Tahitian teachers on their way to theMarquesas), they arrive from Tahiti on April 16 and returned to Tahiti on August 27, 1822, on the Mermaid:[17]

Anglican Church

Other groups

Native Hawaiian Protestant

Native Hawaiian missionary family, c. 1878

Tahitian Protestant

  • Auna, Tahitian teacher

Latter-day Saint

From the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, arriving on December 12, 1850, on the Imaum of Muscat from San Francisco:[20][21]

Roman Catholic

Episcopal arms of Bishop Rouchouze in a window at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, Honolulu

Arrived in 1827 on La Comète from France on an invitation issued by Jean Baptiste Rives:

Subsequent bishops and priests:

Father Damien, SS.CC., in his later years, already afflicted with Hansen's disease

Also:

  • Mother Marianne Cope, O.S.F., (1838–1918), who led a group of Sisters from her religious congregation in answer to a plea by the King for nursing care of leprosy victims, and who eventually went to Molokai to help Father Damien in his last days and continue his work; beatified by the Catholic Church in 2005, canonized in October 2012
  • Brother Joseph Dutton (1843–1931), a lay brother who assisted in Father Damien's work and lived on Molokai from 1886 to his death.
  • Sister Leopoldina Burns (1855–1942), O.S.F., companion of Mother Marianne Cope in Molokai who helped care for the lepers and served as educator for girls.

Hawaiian Catholics:

  • Helio Koaʻeloa (1815–1846), an early Catholic lay catechist known as the "Apostle of Maui".

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 1.
  2. ^ Orramel Hinckley Gulick (1918). The pilgrims of Hawaii: their own story of their pilgrimage from New England. Fleming H. Revell company. pp. 341–347. ISBN 0-524-09143-9.
  3. ^ Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 11.
  4. ^ Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 20.
  5. ^ Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 28.
  6. ^ Sheldon Dibble (1843). History of the Sandwich Islands. Lahainaluna: Press of the Mission Seminary.
  7. ^ Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 33.
  8. ^ Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 44.
  9. ^ Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 49.
  10. ^ Coan, Titus (1882). Life in Hawaii. New York: Anson Randolph & Company. ISBN 0-8370-6036-2.
  11. ^ Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 54.
  12. ^ Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 71.
  13. ^ a b c Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 76.
  14. ^ Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 81.
  15. ^ Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 86.
  16. ^ Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 93.
  17. ^ a b Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 9.
  18. ^ William Ellis (1823). A Journal of a Tour Around Hawaii, the Largest of the Sandwich Islands. Crocker and Brewster, New York, republished 2004, Mutual Publishing, Honolulu. ISBN 1-56647-605-4.
  19. ^ LDS Church Almanac 2010 Edition, p. 331
  20. ^ Bureau of Information, Hawaii Temple (1964), The Mormon temple, Laie, Hawaii, LDS Church, p. 3
  21. ^ "Hawaiian Mission". history.churchofjesuschrist.org. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  22. ^ "George Quayle Cannon". history.churchofjesuschrist.org. Retrieved 3 July 2021.

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