Early Christian Missionaries
These are missionaries that predate the Second Council of Nicaea so it may be claimed by both Catholic and Orthodoxy or belonging to an early Christian groups.
- Alopen – First missionary to China (Nestorian)
- Augustine of Canterbury – Missionary to England
- Apollos
- Saint Barnabas
- Saint Boniface – Influential in the conversion of German peoples
- Brieuc
- Columba – Early missionary to Scotland
- David of Basra– Early missionary to India
- Denis – Early missionary to France
- Frumentius – Early missionary to Ethiopia
- Saint Kilian – Irish missionary killed in Franconia
- Mark the Evangelist
- Saint Patrick – Early missionary to Ireland
- Paul of Tarsus
- Pantaenus – Early missionary to India
- Twelve Apostles – All of the twelve are considered missionaries at some level
- Ulfilas – Missionary to the Goths
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