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[German Version] (Aug 25, 1799, Grennock, Inverclyde, Scotland – Aug 8, 1878, Sydney, Australia), Presbyterian minister, politician, educationalist, and propagandist. The first Presbyterian to the mainland of Australia (moving to Sydney in 1823), Lang helped local independent churches adapt to Presbyterian structures and link with the Established Church of Scotland. Evangelical, energetic if troublesome, Lang was responsible for the migration of most of the first generation of Australian Presbyter…

[German Version] (Jun 25, 1765, Bogly, England – May 12, 1838, Windsor, New South Wales, Australia), clergyman, agriculturist, and missionary leader. Marsden received an Anglican college education at Hull and Cambridge with the support of the Evangelical Elland Society (W. Wilberforce), which sent him to Australia in 1793 as second chaplain for the colony of New South Wales. The society considered the colony a potential base for the conversion not only of the convicts shipped to Australia but of t…

[German Version] (Nov 25, 1880, Moliagul, Australia – May 5, 1951, Sydney), son of a schoolteacher, attended University High School in Carlton and became a state schoolteacher in Victoria. Already entrusted with mission rural missions, Flynn trained for the Presbyterian ministry. His successful text, Bushman's Companion (1910), made Christianity relevant to land workers in the shearers' camps. His impressions of the vast Smith of Dunesk Mission (1911), which he conveyed to the Presbyterian Church in Australia, led to the founding of the Au…

[German Version] (Jan 24, 1879, Bendigo, Victoria – Jul 13, 1935, Sydney), an Anglican priest, converted under the influence of Herbert Smirnoff Begbie. He studied at the Moore Theological College in Sydney, Australia, and was ordained in 1905. Kirkby became well known as a pioneer of the Protestant mission and as a campaigner for political issues. In 1920, he was a founding missionary of the newly established Bush Church Aid Society, which aimed to meet the challenges facing the missions of the H…

[German Version] (IVF) is a worldwide evangelical Christian student movement, which emerged out of the British biblicist reaction to the ecumenical Student Christian movement. Formed in 1928 by three evangelical leaders, H.W. Guinness, Douglas Johnson, and Hugh Gough, and influenced by medical and faith missions, the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (CICCU), the Plymouth Brethren, and the Keswick Movement, the IVF formalized existing inter-university evangelical union links, which had be…

[German Version] (IFES). The IFES is an interdenominational evangelical fellowship uniting national networks of university Christian Unions. It emerged out of the formalization of links between Norwegian (Norges Kristelige Studentlag) and British (Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, IVF) evangelical university missions. Robert Wilder (formally Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Mission, SVM), H.W. Guinness, and Douglas Johnson (IVF) and Ole Hallesby (Norges Kristelige Studentlag Skoleungdomslag…

[German Version] John Northcote (Mar 12, 1875, London – May 10, 1957, Toronto) and Norman Cathcart (1882 – Aug 31, 1980) were brothers from a large missionary family belonging to the Bohemian and Moravian Brethren, which contributed significantly to the South Seas Evangelical Mission (also known as the Deck Mission) and the evangelization of the Pacific. N…

[German Version] (Nov 21, 1891, Sydney, Australia – Apr 8, 1974, Sydney), Baptist theologian. Educated at Sydney University, Morling taught at the Victorian Baptist College from 1915 and was among the first intake to transfer in to the newly opened New South Wales Baptist College. After two brief pastorates, he replaced Alexander Gordon as principal in 1922, a position he kept until 1960 (“Principal Morling”). He also taught in church history at his alma mater. By maintaining a balanced, non-confr…

[German Version] (Nov 22, 1903, London – Jul 28, 1979, Wentworth Falls, New South Wales, Australia) came from a family of noted Irish Brethren evangelists (Plymouth Brethren). Guinness trained in medicine, but never practiced, spending his life rather in missions to school children and university students around the world. He was a co-founder of the London Inter-Faculty Christian Union (LIFCU) and InterVarsity Fellowship (IVF). Sent to Canada in 1928, he worked among the remnants of the Student Vo…

[German Version] (Dec 26, 1916, Adelaide – Jan 14, 1994, Sydney) was an Anglican theological educator. An Oxford D.Phil established his expertise in Reformation historical theology and prepared him to return to Moore Theological College (MTC) as vice-principal (1954) and later principal (from the end of 1958). A strong proponent of preaching from the text, he shaped generations of Sydney Anglican clergy and, as virtual editor of the Anglican Church Record in the 1950s and 1960s, he shaped diocesan lay opinion in such a way as to deeply entrench neo-Reformed Biblic…

[English Version] Nash, Clifford Harris (16.12.1866 London – 27.9.1958 Melbourne), anglik. Geistlicher und evangelikale Führergestalt. Nach Ausbildung an der Oundle School und der Universität Cambridge wurde N. durch die Schule B.F. Westcotts, Handley Carr Glynn Moule u.a. zu einem konservativen Evangelikalismus der Mitte hin beeinflußt. Zu seinen Tätigkeiten gehörten Lehre und Predigt in: Musselburgh; Huddersfield, Yorkshire; seit 1897 Sydney (u.a. Church Hill, Redfern); Melbourne (St. Columb's, Ha…

[English Version] Perry, Charles (1807 London – 2.12.1891 Cambridge), anglik. Gründungsbischof von Melbourne; Studium in Cambridge, Ordination 1836. Auf Anraten des Sekretärs der Church Missionary Society, H. Venn, wurde P. am 29.6.1847 zum Bf. von Melbourne ernannt und erreichte seinen Amtssitz (43 000 Einwohner) am 23.1.1848. Die Phasen des Goldrausches machten Melbourne damals zum finanziellen Zentrum Australiens. P. teilte die Ansicht G.C. Gorhams über die Tauferneuerung im Gegensatz zur hochki…

[English Version] Paton, John Gibson (24.5.1824 Kirkmahoe, Schottland – 28.1.1907 Canterbury, Victoria, Australien), Missionar der Presbyterianer, Politiker und Sozialreformer. Zunächst Lehrer und Stadtmissionar in Glasgow, wurde P. nach Ausbildung an der Universität Glasgow und der Reformed Presbyterian Divinity Hall, Paisley, 1858 Missionar auf den Neuen Hebriden (heute Vanuatu). Seine Vertreibung aus Port Resolution, Tanna, durch die lokale Bevölkerung beantwortete P. 1862 mit einer international…

[English Version] Polding, John Bede (18.10.1794 Liverpool – 16.3.1877 Sydney), kath. Gründungsbischof und erster Erzbf. von Sydney. Ausbildung in Acton Burnell bei Shrewsbury, Eintritt in den Benediktinerorden, Apostolischer Vikar von Madras, Indien. 1834 erhielt P. das neugegründete Vikariat von New South Wales, das zu dieser Zeit den gesamten australischen Kontinent (Australien) umfaßte. Als P. im Jahr darauf in Sydney ankam, bestand das geistl. Personal der dortigen kath. Kirche lediglich aus vi…