This is alist of missionaries to Hawaii. Before European exploration, theHawaiian religion was brought from Tahiti byPaʻao according to oral tradition. Notable missionaries with written records below are generallyChristian.

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

The first ABCFM company arrived on March 30, 1820, on theThaddeus fromBoston:^[1][2]

• 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
• Dr. Thomas Holman (1793-1826), first missionary physician to Hawaii
• Lucia Ruggles Holman (1793-1886), wife of Thomas Holman; teacher, letter writer

The second ABCFM company arrived on April 23, 1823, on theThames fromNew Haven:^[3]

• Rev.William Richards (1793–1847)
• Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart (1798–1830), wife of Charles Samuel Stewart
• Betsey Stockton (1798–1865), the firstAfrican American and unmarried female missionary

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

• Rev.Lorrin Andrews (1795–1868), founder ofLahainaluna Seminary and judge
• Rev.Ephraim Weston Clark (1799–1878), third pastor of Kawaiahaʻo Church
• Rev.Jonathan Smith Green (1796–1878), who foundedMakawao Union Church
• Rev.Peter Johnson Gulick (1796–1877)
• Dr.Gerrit P. Judd (1803–1873), physician and diplomat
• Laura Fish (1804–1872), wife of Gerrit P. Judd

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

• Rev.Dwight Baldwin (1798–1886), physician onMaui island
• Charlotte Fowler (1805–1873), wife of Dwight Baldwin
• Rev.Sheldon Dibble (1809–1845), historian and Bible translator^[6]

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

• Rev.William Patterson Alexander (1805–1884), whose son foundedAlexander & Baldwin
• Rev.Richard Armstrong (1805–1860), various missions, second pastor ofKawaiahaʻo Church
• Clarissa Chapman (1805–1891), wife of Richard Armstrong
• Ursula Sophia Newell (1806–1888), wife of John Smith Emerson
• Rev.Harvey Rexford Hitchcock (1800–1855), who founded the first church onMolokaʻi island
• Rev.David Belden Lyman (1803–1868), who founded the Hilo Boarding School
• Rev.Lorenzo Lyons (1807–1886), who builtImiola Church inWaimea, Hawaii County, Hawaii

The sixth ABCFM company arrived on May 1, 1833, on theMentor:^[8]

• Rev. Lowell Smith
• Mrs.Abigail Willis Tenney Smith (1809–1885), President of the Woman's Board of Missions for the Pacific Islands
• Rev. Benjamin Wyman Parker
• Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Barker Parker
• Rev. John Diell, first seaman's chaplain and first pastor of the Bethel
• Mrs. Caroline Platt Diell
• Lemuel Fuller, printer

The seventh ABCFM company arrived on June 6, 1835, on theHellespont:^[9]

• Rev.Titus Coan (1808–1881), first pastor ofHaili Church inHilo^[10]
• Edwin Oscar Hall (1810–1883), printer

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

• Edward Bailey (1814–1903), teacher
• Samuel Northrup Castle (1808–1894), who co-foundedCastle & Cooke
• Amos Starr Cooke (1810–1871), who founded theRoyal School in Honolulu
• Abner Wilcox (1808–1869), teacher

The ninth ABCFM company arrived on May 21, 1841, on theGloucester:^[12]

• Rev.Elias Bond (1813–1896), founded Kalahikiola Church and Kohala Seminary
• Rev.Daniel Dole (1808–1878), who founded ofPunahou School
• Rev.John Davis Paris (1809–1892), who foundedKahikolu Church andHale Halawai O Holualoa
• William Harrison Rice (1813–1862), teacher
• Mary Sophia Hyde (1816–1911), wife of William Harrison Rice

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

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

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

• Rev.Asa Bowen Smith (1809–1886)
• Mrs.Melicent Knapp Smith (1816-1891)
• Sarah Gilbert White (1813–1855), wife of Asa Bowen Smith
• Rev. George Berkeley Rowell (1815-1884)
• Mrs. Malvina J. Chapin Rowell (1816-1893)

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

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

• Maria Louisa Walsworth (1822–1858), wife of Henry Kinney and teacher. She married businessmanBenjamin Pitman after her husband's death

Arrived in 1854, intended for Micronesia on theChaica:^[16]

• William Cornelius Shipman (1824–1861), stationed in Waiohinu

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

• Rev,Daniel Tyerman
• Rev.George Bennet
• Rev.William Ellis (1794–1872), who returned on February 4, 1823, on theActive, toured the islands, and published a book about the tour. He left after about eighteen months in the islands.^[17][18]

• BishopThomas Nettleship Staley (1823–1898), the first Anglican bishop, arrived in 1862.
• BishopAlfred Willis (1836–1920), the second Anglican bishop, arrived in 1872

• Merriman Colbert Harris (1846–1921), the firstMethodist bishop

• David Malo (1793–1853), historian, built Kilolani Church
• Henry Opukahaia, who traveled via China to New England and inspired ABCFM
• James Kekela, first ordained Hawaiian Protestant minister
• Bartimeus Lalana Puaʻaiki, first Hawaiian licensed to preach
• Jonathan Napela, Uaua and Kaleohano, early Mormon converts, who would later serve as prominent missionaries and leaders in the LDS Church.^[19]
• William Hoapili Kaʻauwai (1835–1874), only Native Hawaiian to be ordained a priest of the Anglican Church of Hawaii in 1864

• Auna, Tahitian teacher

Fromthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, arriving on December 12, 1850, on theImaum of Muscat fromSan Francisco:^[20][21]

• George Q. Cannon (1827–1901).^[22]

Arrived in 1827 onLa Comète from France on an invitation issued byJean Baptiste Rives:

• FatherAlexis Bachelot,SS.CC. (1796–1837), with FathersPatrick Short, SS.CC., andAbraham Armand, SS.CC., and sixlay Brothers of theCongregation

Subsequent bishops and priests:

• BishopEtienne Jerome Rouchouze, SS.CC. (?–1843), lost at sea
• BishopLouis Desiré Maigret, SS.CC. (1804–1882)
• BishopHerman Koeckemann, SS.CC. (1828–1892)
• BishopGulstan Ropert, SS.CC. (1839–1903)
• Father Damien de Veuster, SS.CC., (1840–1889),canonized by theRoman Catholic Church in 2009 for dedicating his life to the care ofleprosy victims on Molokai, eventually succumbing to the disease himself
• BishopLibert H. Boeynaems, SS.CC. (1857–1926)
• BishopStephen Alencastre, SS.CC. (1876–1940)

Also:

• MotherMarianne 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
• BrotherJoseph Dutton (1843–1931), a lay brother who assisted in Father Damien's work and lived on Molokai from 1886 to his death.
• SisterLeopoldina 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".

• Thomas G. Thrum (1876).Hawaiian almanac and annual for 1876. Black & Auld, Honolulu.hdl:10524/665.
• Hawaiian Mission Children's Society (1901).Portraits of American Protestant Missionaries to Hawaii. Honolulu: The Hawaiian Gazette Co.OCLC 11796269.
• Hawaiian Mission Children's Society (1969).Missionary Album: Portraits and Biographical Sketches of the American Protestant Missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu: Hawaiian Mission Children's Society.OCLC 462800869.
• Forbes, David W.; Kam, Ralph Thomas; Woods, Thomas A. (2018).Partners in Change: A Biographical Encyclopedia of American Protestant Missionaries in Hawaiʻi and Their Hawaiian and Tahitian Colleagues, 1820–1900. Honolulu: Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site & Archives.ISBN 978-0-692-18267-3.OCLC 1088735785.

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