Gordon Dewolfe Barss

{{short description|Canadian Baptist missionary}}

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| honorific_prefix = The Reverend

| name = G. D. Barss, CBM

| honorific_suffix = D. D. Honoris causa (Acadia)

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| birth_name = Gordon Dewolfe Barss

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1916|02|13}}[http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Gordon-Barss&lc=3756&pid=147153814&mid=4478098 Dignity Memorial, In Memory of Gordon Dewolfe Barss, 2010]

| birth_place = Pithapuram, East Godavari district, Madras Presidency (India)

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2010|12|14|1916|02|13}}

| death_place = Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, (Canada)

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| nationality = Canadian

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| citizenship = Canadian

| education =

• B.A. (Acadia)
• B.D. (ANTS)Gordon D. Barss, The early eastward spread of Christianity, Andover, 1949. Cited in Xiaoxin Wup (Edited), Christianity in China: A Scholars' Guide to Resources in the Libraries and Archives in the United States, Second Edition, Routledge, New York, 2015, p.611. [https://books.google.com/books?id=NP0vCgAAQBAJ&dq=The+early+eastward+spread+of+Christianity+barss+andover+newton&pg=PA611]

| alma_mater =

- in Asia
Kodaikanal International School, Dundigal, Tamil Nadu (India)

- in North America

• Horton Academy, Wolfville, Kings County, Nova Scotia (Canada)
• Acadia University, Wolfville, Kings County, Nova Scotia (Canada) {{small|(1933[https://books.google.com/books?id=QITOAAAAMAAJ&q=Gordon+Dewolfe+Barss Calendar, Acadia University, 1933, Wolfville, p.139]-1936)}}
• Andover Newton Theological School, Newton, Massachusetts (United States) {{small|(1951Catalogue 1959-1950, Andover Newton Theological School, Andover, 1951, p.54. [https://books.google.com/books?id=eR84AAAAMAAJ&q=Gordon+Dewolfe+Barss])}}

| occupation = Ecclesiastical Administrator and Pastor

| years_active = 1939-1980 in India[https://books.google.com/books?id=dXTkAAAAMAAJ&q=gordon+barss+kenya Yearbook 1991, Baptist Union of Western Canada, 1991, p.401]

| religion = Christianity

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| church = Canadian Baptist Ministries

| ordained = 1938

| writings = 1949, The early eastward spread of ChristianityGordon D. Barss, The early eastward spread of Christianity, Andover, 1949. Cited in Archie R. Crouch, Steven Agoratus, et al., Christianity in China: A Scholars's Guide to Resources in the Libraries and archives of the United States, 1989, p.169. [https://books.google.com/books?id=eIebre3p6ZIC&dq=gordon+d.+barss&pg=PR1]

| congregations =

| offices_held = Principal, Baptist Theological Seminary, Kakinada (India), {{small|(1975-1977)C. L. Johnson (Edited), Canadian Baptist Mission 125 year's Jubilee Celebrations of Baptist Churches in Northern Circars, Baptist Theological Seminary, Kakinada, 1999, p.217-219.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/433990749]}}

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Gordon Dewolfe Barss (1916 – 2010) was a Baptist missionary who served in India during 1939W. G. Carder, Hand to the Indian Plow: Volume One, Carder, Hyderabad, 1976, Appendix II, p.5. [https://books.google.com/books?id=7AcxNAEACAAJ&q=hand+to+the+indian+plough+carder]-1980 through the Canadian Baptist Ministries.