29th June 1864: Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther becomes the first African to be consecrated by the Church Missionary Society as Bishop of the Niger territory.
29th June, 1929: Charles Fox Parnham passed on to glory. He was an American Preacher and Evangelist whom together with William J. Seymour, was one of the two central figures in the development and early spread of American Pentecostalism.
29th June, 1629: Samuel Skelton and Francis Higginson, Presbyterian Reverends, arrive on the ship Talbot to Massachusetts, the first clergymen of that sect in what will become the United States.
29th June, 1900: Pastor Meng Ch’ang-ch’un is seized and beheaded at Pao ting Fu, having refused to flee, declaring he will stand by foreign missionaries whose lives were threatened during the Boxer Rebellion, an angry reaction against western interference in China.
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