List of missionaries to Hawaii

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

The first ABCFM company arrived on March 30, 1820, on the Thaddeus from Boston:{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=1}}{{cite book |title=The pilgrims of Hawaii: their own story of their pilgrimage from New England |author=Orramel Hinckley Gulick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ehE3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA341 |pages=341–347 |publisher=Fleming H. Revell company |year=1918 |isbn=0-524-09143-9}}

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• 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 the Thames from New Haven:{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=11}}

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

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The third ABCFM company arrived on March 30, 1828, on the Parthian from Boston:{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=20}}

• Rev. Lorrin Andrews (1795–1868), founder of Lahainaluna Seminary and judge
• Rev. Ephraim Weston Clark (1799–1878), third pastor of Kawaiahaʻo Church
• Rev. Jonathan Smith Green (1796–1878), who founded Makawao 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 the New England from New Bedford:{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=28}}

• Rev. Dwight Baldwin (1798–1886), physician on Maui island
• Charlotte Fowler (1805–1873), wife of Dwight Baldwin
• Rev. Sheldon Dibble (1809–1845), historian and Bible translator{{cite book |author=Sheldon Dibble |author-link=Sheldon Dibble |title= History of the Sandwich Islands |publisher= Press of the Mission Seminary |year= 1843 |location= Lahainaluna |url= https://archive.org/details/historysandwich00dibbgoog }}

The fifth ABCFM company arrived May 17, 1832 on the Averick from Boston:{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=33}}

• Rev. William Patterson Alexander (1805–1884), whose son founded Alexander & Baldwin
• Rev. Richard Armstrong (1805–1860), various missions, second pastor of Kawaiahaʻo 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 on Molokaʻi island
• Rev. David Belden Lyman (1803–1868), who founded the Hilo Boarding School
• Rev. Lorenzo Lyons (1807–1886), who built Imiola Church in Waimea, Hawaii County, Hawaii

The sixth ABCFM company arrived on May 1, 1833, on the Mentor:{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=44}}

• 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 the Hellespont:{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=49}}

• Rev. Titus Coan (1808–1881), first pastor of Haili Church in Hilo{{Cite book | title = Life in Hawaii | last = Coan| first = Titus | year = 1882| publisher = Anson Randolph & Company | location = New York | url =http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/COAN/coan-intro.html | isbn = 0-8370-6036-2 }}
• Edwin Oscar Hall (1810–1883), printer

The eighth ABCFM company arrived on April 9, 1837, on the Mary Frasier from Boston:{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=54}}

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

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The ninth ABCFM company arrived on May 21, 1841, on the Gloucester:{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=71}}

• Rev. Elias Bond (1813–1896), founded Kalahikiola Church and Kohala Seminary
• Rev. Daniel Dole (1808–1878), who founded of Punahou School
• Rev. John Davis Paris (1809–1892), who founded Kahikolu Church and Hale 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 the Sarah Abagail from Boston:{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=76}}

• Rev. Samuel Chenery Damon (1815–1885), publisher of "The Friend". Arrived on October 19, 1842, on the Sarah Abagail from New York:{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=76}}

Arrived on September 21, 1843, from Boston, originally intended on going to Oregon:{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=76}}

• 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 the Globe from Boston:{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=81}}

The twelfth ABCFM company arrived February 26, 1848 on the Samoset from Boston:{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=86}}

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

Arrived in 1854, intended for Micronesia on the Chaica:{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=93}}

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

From the London 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 the Mermaid:{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=9}}

• Rev, Daniel Tyerman
• Rev. George Bennet
• Rev. William Ellis (1794–1872), who returned on February 4, 1823, on the Active, toured the islands, and published a book about the tour. He left after about eighteen months in the islands.{{sfn|Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|1901|page=9}}{{cite book| author=William Ellis |title=A Journal of a Tour Around Hawaii, the Largest of the Sandwich Islands |year=1823 |publisher=Crocker and Brewster, New York, republished 2004, Mutual Publishing, Honolulu |url=https://archive.org/details/ajournalatourar00elligoog |isbn=1-56647-605-4 }}

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

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

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• 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.LDS Church Almanac 2010 Edition, p. 331
• William Hoapili Kaʻauwai (1835–1874), only Native Hawaiian to be ordained a priest of the Anglican Church of Hawaii in 1864

• Auna, Tahitian teacher

From the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, arriving on December 12, 1850, on the Imaum of Muscat from San Francisco:{{Citation | last = Bureau of Information | first = Hawaii Temple | title = The Mormon temple, Laie, Hawaii | publisher = LDS Church | year = 1964 |page=3}}{{cite web |title=Hawaiian Mission |url=https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/organization/mission/hawaiian-1850?lang=eng |website=history.churchofjesuschrist.org |publisher=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |access-date=3 July 2021}}

• George Q. Cannon (1827–1901).{{cite web |title=George Quayle Cannon |url=https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/individual/george-quayle-cannon-1827?timelineTabs=all-events |website=history.churchofjesuschrist.org |access-date=3 July 2021}}

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Arrived in 1827 on La Comète from France on an invitation issued by Jean Baptiste Rives:

• Father Alexis Bachelot, SS.CC. (1796–1837), with Fathers Patrick Short, SS.CC., and Abraham Armand, SS.CC., and six lay Brothers of the Congregation

Subsequent bishops and priests:

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• Bishop Etienne Jerome Rouchouze, SS.CC. (?–1843), lost at sea
• Bishop Louis Desiré Maigret, SS.CC. (1804–1882)
• Bishop Herman Koeckemann, SS.CC. (1828–1892)
• Bishop Gulstan Ropert, SS.CC. (1839–1903)
• Father Damien de Veuster, SS.CC., (1840–1889), canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in 2009 for dedicating his life to the care of leprosy victims on Molokai, eventually succumbing to the disease himself
• Bishop Libert H. Boeynaems, SS.CC. (1857–1926)
• Bishop Stephen Alencastre, SS.CC. (1876–1940)

Also:

• Mother Marianne 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
• Brother Joseph Dutton (1843–1931), a lay brother who assisted in Father Damien's work and lived on Molokai from 1886 to his death.
• Sister Leopoldina 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".

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• Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary
• Church of Hawaii
• Edict of Toleration (Hawaii)
• List of Buddhist temples in Hawaii
• List of Roman Catholic missionaries
• Orthodox Church in Hawaii
• Prefecture Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands
• Roman Catholic Bishop of Honolulu
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii
• Vicar Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands

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• {{cite book |title=Hawaiian almanac and annual for 1876 |hdl=10524/665 |author=Thomas G. Thrum |year=1876 |publisher=Black & Auld, Honolulu }}
• {{cite book|author=Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|title=Portraits of American Protestant Missionaries to Hawaii|year=1901|location=Honolulu|publisher=The Hawaiian Gazette Co.|url=https://archive.org/details/portraitsofameri00hawarich|oclc=11796269}}
• {{cite book|author=Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|title=Missionary Album: Portraits and Biographical Sketches of the American Protestant Missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VW1LAAAAIAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Hawaiian Mission Children's Society|location=Honolulu|oclc=462800869}}
• {{cite book|last1=Forbes|first1=David W.|last2=Kam|first2=Ralph Thomas|last3=Woods|first3=Thomas A.|title=Partners in Change: A Biographical Encyclopedia of American Protestant Missionaries in Hawaiʻi and Their Hawaiian and Tahitian Colleagues, 1820–1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0R10uwEACAAJ|year=2018|publisher=Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site & Archives|location=Honolulu|isbn=978-0-692-18267-3|oclc=1088735785}}

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