VTS and the Global Community

From Missionaries to an Indigenous Church

The Rt. Rev.

Channing Moore Williams

The Rev. James J. Chapman in traditional Japanese dress

Elizabeth Chapman with her son, and her godson with his mother.

The Most Rev. Henry St. George Tucker

The Most Reverend Henry St. George Tucker, 19th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, leaves Seminary for the foreign mission field immediately upon graduation. Over his 25 years in Japan, he serves as President of St. Paul’s College (eventually the aforementioned Rikkyo University), the Bishop of Osaka, and subsequently the Bishop of Kyoto.

Back in the United States, Tucker serves as Professor at Virginia Seminary, Bishop of Virginia, and Chairman of the VTS Board of Trustees before being elected Presiding Bishop in 1938.

Letter from The Rev. Ken Heim (VTS 1955) advising how to get admitted to St. Paul’s College.

The Rev. Jacob K. Kobayashi, D.D. (VTS 1894)

Professor of Apologetics at Rikkyo University.

First Asian to be awarded an honorary D.D. by VTS.

Christmas edition of newsletter

informing the Episcopal Church on the work of missionaries in Japan.

The Rt. Rev. John Yasutaro Naide

(VTS 1909)

First native Japanese Bishop of Osaka

Silk Burse

“Presented to Virginia Seminary by Bishop Williams Seminary, Kyoto, Japan with love and gratitude, June 1959.”

The Rev. Isaac Yokoyama (VTS 1877)

The Rev. Paul N. Abe (VTS 1916)

Japan Comes To Alexandria

The Rt. Rev. John Yasuturo Naide

(VTS 1902)

The Rev. Tuheshi Naide (VTS 1922)

The Rev. J. A. Welbourn (VTS 1899)

The Rev. Paul Nagata (VTS 1924)

The Rev. Motoo Sobatoke

(VTS 1929)

Bishop Tucker's Japanese Edict

Shanghai, VTS, and the Chinese Presiding Bishop

The Rt. Rev. William Jones Boone

Bishop Boone’s

Travel Cutlery Set

Chinese Ancestor Totem

St. John’s College, Shanghai

Graduates and Faculty

The Rt. Rev. Philip Lendel Tsen

The Holy Hill and the World’s Largest Continent

The Rt. Rev. John Payne,

first missionary bishop of Liberia

The Rt. Rev.

Bravid Washington Harris,

8th Bishop of Liberia

Tri-pod with Elephants

Gift to Seminary

Epiphany Hall

Liberia

Epiphany Hall

Seminarians

Gift to Dean Martha Horne

Kenyan Candleholder

Photos from VTS trip to Bishop Tucker Seminary in Uganda

Anglicanism in Spanish and Portuguese

Prof. Richard Jones on trip to Dominican Republic

James Morris (VTS 1889) & Lucien Kinsolving (VTS 1889) accepted a call to serve as missionaries in Brazil in 1889. The Foreign Mission Board did not endorse this, because TEC wished to stay out of predominately Roman Catholic, Central & South America.

Chalice and Paten from the Anglican Church of Brazil for VTS’ Centennial

However, TEC created the Missionary District of Cuba in 1901, and three of its missionaries came from the seminary. By 1908, the Brazilian church was creating its own native expression of Anglicanism.

The Rev. Lindon Ferreira

The early 20th century saw the rise of indigenous clergy. Except for the Bishop and three missionaries, all the clergy were Brazilian. Brazilian missionary, Lindon Ferreira, would come to VTS in 1915.

Photo of Latin American Students, including: Melchor Saucedo Mendoza, José Guadalupe Saucedo, & José Augustin Gonzalez

Many Latin & South Americans have graced VTS since the days of mission, including: the first Bishop of Western Mexico, Melchor Saucedo Mendoza;

José Guadalupe Saucedo, Bishop of Cuernavaca and first Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Mexico; and José Augustin Gonzalez Martinez, Bishop of Cuba.

Palestine, the Holy Land, and Virginia Seminarians