List of missionaries to the South Pacific

This is a list of missionaries to the South Pacific islands. See also Bible translations into Oceanic languages.

Protestant

  • Charles Scarborough (1927–2002) from England to Gilbert Islands
  • Samuel Marsden (1765–1838) - from England to Australia
  • Henry Nott (1774–1844) - from Britain to Tahiti
  • Thomas Kendall (1778–1832) - from England to New Zealand
  • Lancelot Edward Threlkeld (1788–1859) - from England to Tahiti and Australia
  • Henry Williams (1792–1867) - from England to New Zealand
  • John Williams (1796–1839) - from England to Tahiti and Samoa
  • Robert Clark Morgan (1798–1864) - ship captain to South Australia, New Hebrides
  • George Platt (missionary) - from England? to Tahiti and Samoa (not to be confused with George Pratt)
  • Aaron Buzacott (1800–1864) - from England to Rarotonga
  • Alfred Nesbitt Brown (1803–1884) - from England to New Zealand
  • William Gilbert Puckey (1805–1878) - from England to New Zealand
  • George Augustus Selwyn (1809–1878) - first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand
  • Thomas Powell (botanist) (1809–1887) - from England to Samoa
  • William Colenso (1811–1899) - from England to New Zealand
  • Samuel Wilson (missionary translator) (c.1812 – after 1840) - from Tahiti (English) to Samoa
  • William Charles Cotton (1813–1879) - from England to New Zealand
  • Octavius Hadfield (1814–1904) - from Isle of Wight to New Zealand
  • John Geddie (missionary) (1815–1872) - from Canada to Vanuatu
  • Charles Hardie (c.1816 – after 1843) - from England to Samoa
  • George Pratt (1817–1894) - from England to Samoa
  • George Turner (missionary) (1818–1891) - from England to Samoa
  • Carl Sylvius Völkner (c. 1819–1865) - from Germany to New Zealand
  • Carl Wilhelm Schmidt (?–1864) - from Germany to Queensland and Samoa
  • William Bambridge (1820–1879) - from England to New Zealand
  • Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso (1821–1904) - from England to New Zealand
  • George N. Gordon (1822–1861) - from Canada to Vanuatu
  • John Gibson Paton (1824–1907) - from Scotland to New Hebrides
  • John Coleridge Patteson (1827–1871) - from England to Bishop of Melanesia
  • Peter Milne (missionary) (1834-1924) - from Scotland to New Hebrides
  • George Brown (1835–1917) - from England to Samoa
  • Shirley Waldemar Baker (1836–1903) - from England to Australia and Tonga
  • James Cosh (1838–1900) - from Scotland to Vanuatu
  • William George Lawes (1839–1907) - from England to Papua New Guinea
  • James Chalmers (1841–1901) - from Scotland to New Hebrides and New Guinea
  • Oscar Michelsen (1844–1936) - from Norway to Vanuatu
  • Florence Young (1856–1940) - from New Zealand to China and the Solomon Islands
  • Joseph Copeland (1866-1876) - from Scotland to Vanuatu (Tanna, Aneityum, Futuna)
  • John William Gunn (1883-1918) - from Scotland to Vanuatu (Futuna)
  • Philip Delaporte - from Germany to Nauru
  • David Hand (1918–2006) - first Anglican Bishop of Papua New Guinea
  • J. Graham Miller (1913–2008) - from New Zealand and Australia, to New Hebrides
  • Don Richardson (1935–2018) - from Canada, to Netherlands New Guinea

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