Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui (CHSKH, Chinese :中華聖公會), known in English as the Holy Catholic Church in China or Anglican-Episcopal Province of China, was the Anglican Church in China from 1912 until about 1958, when it ceased operations.
Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui (CHSKH, Chinese :中華聖公會), known in English as the Holy Catholic Church in China or Anglican-Episcopal Province of China, was the Anglican Church in China from 1912 until about 1958, when it ceased operations.
The Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui was established on 26 April 1912 by the merger of the various mission activities of the Church of England, the Episcopal Church of the United States, Anglican Church of Canada and other Anglican provinces into one autonomous jurisdiction. [1] [2] The merger of the respective Anglican missionary initiatives in China into one national church echoed similar steps that were taken in 1887 to establish the Nippon Sei Ko Kai or Anglican Church in Japan.
After 1949, its dioceses in Hong Kong and Macao became the Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao, later reorganized as an independent Anglican province, the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. Those who fled to Taiwan with the Chinese Nationalists established the Episcopal Diocese of Taiwan, a diocese of the Episcopal Church of the United States. The CHSKH was never formally dissolved, but all activities had ended by 1958. [3]
Mo-Yung In was consecrated a bishop on 25 March 1950, to serve as Bishop of Guangzhou/Guangdong, in preparation for the severing of the Hong Kong diocese from the Chinese church. [11]
The Church in China is the name by which Anglican missions under the jurisdiction of the Church of England were called between 1849 and 1949. [12] Bishops' jurisdictions included
The Anglican Church in China was divided into eleven jurisdictions as of 1913. [13]
| Jurisdiction | Bishop | Maintained by |
|---|---|---|
| North China | C. P. Scott (1880) | Society for the Propagation of the Gospel |
| Shantung | G. D. Iliff (1903) | Society for the Propagation of the Gospel |
| Western China | W. W. Cassels (1895) | Church of England Missionary Society |
| Shanghai | F. R. Graves (1893) | American Episcopal Church |
| Hankow | L. H. Roots (1904) | American Episcopal Church |
| Wuhu | D. T. Huntington (1912) | American Episcopal Church |
| Honan | W. C. White (1909) | Church of England in Canada |
| Cheh-Kiang | H. J. Molony (1908) | Church of England Missionary Society |
| Kiangsi and Hunan | W. Banister (1909) | Church of England Missionary Society |
| Fuh-Kien | H. McC E. Price (1906) | Church of England Missionary Society |
| Victoria (Hong Kong) | G. H. Lander (1907) | Church of England Missionary Society |
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