The Right Reverend Samuel J. Schereschewsky translating the bible in China, 1902.

Schereschewsky, translator and scholar, served as Bishop for China from 1879-1883. In 1879 he established the school later to become St. John’s University, one of China’s outstanding educational centers. The Episcopal Church’s mission in China endured from 1835-1951.


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