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Born July 21, 1814 • Wrotham • England
Died March 12, 1880 (aged 65) • London • England
William Tyndale
William Tyndale
English scholar
William Carey
William Carey
British missionary
Bible
John Eliot
British missionary
Robert Moffat, oil painting by William Scott, 1842; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Moffat
British missionary
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Saint Methodius
Christian theologian
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Saint Cyril
Christian theologian
Ulfilas teaching Christianity to the Goths, early 20th-century illustration.
Ulfilas
bishop of the Goths
Adoniram Judson, detail from an engraving by Alfred Jones after a painting by Chester Harding, 1846
Adoniram Judson
American missionary
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Saint Stephen of Perm
Russian Orthodox missionary
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Robert Morrison
British missionary
John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe
English theologian
Patron saint of Ireland
St. Patrick
bishop and patron saint of Ireland
St. Boniface
St. Boniface
English missionary
George Fox
George Fox
English preacher and missionary
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Alexander Crummell
American scholar and minister
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Nicholas Of Hereford
English scholar
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Saint Chad
English clergyman
Rogers, John
John Rogers
English religious reformer
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Saint Cuthbert
bishop of Lindisfarne
St. Edmund Campion
St. Edmund Campion
English saint