A Church is Born: Church of South India Inauguration

First Protestant Missionaries > Explorers

Among the early Europeans in India were the Danes

Whose stations included this one on the southeast coast. The British Company, for reasons of trade, opposed all missionary endeavors, dot so the Danes who sent to this outpost at Tranquehar, in 1706,

Bartholomew Ziegenbalg to be the first Protestant missionary to India.

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