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Channing Moore Williams (17 July 1829 – 2 December 1910) was an Episcopal Church missionary, later bishop, in China and Japan. Williams was a leading figure in the establishment of the Anglican Church in Japan. His saint's day in the Anglican calendar is 2 December. ==Early Life and education== Channing Williams was born in Richmond, Virginia, the fifth child of lawyer and delegate John Green Williams and Mary Anne Crignan. His father served on the vestry of Monumental Church and led its Sunday school. Channing's first and middle names reflected Virginia's second bishop, Richard Channing Moore, who also served as Monumental Church's rector due to the Episcopal Church's financial straits in Virginia after the Revolutionary War. John Williams died when Channing was three years old, so the devout Mary Williams raised her four sons and two daughters rather than marry again. When Channing turned 18, he went to Henderson, Kentucky, to work in his cousin Alex B. Barrett's general store, as well as save money for future studies. There, he was confirmed by Benjamin Bosworth Smith, Kentucky's first bishop, on 7 April 1849, and also studied Greek at night under the guidance of the rector of St. Paul's Church.〔Beverley D. Tucker, Chaning Moore Williams: Apostle to Japan, 1829-1910 (bound manuscript dated 2000) pp. 1-4 - 1-5〕 Then, like his older brother John (1823-1870, long-time rector of St. Peter's Church in Rome, Georgia), Channing attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He graduated with a master of arts degree in 1852, then attended the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. At VTS, Williams read ''The Spirit of Missions'' and other journals. Reports of VTS graduates who served as overseas missionaries, including Augustus Lyde, Henry Lockwood and Francis Hanson, inspired him. He also learned of Bishop William Boone, who had finally persuaded the Foreign Mission Board to sponsor his work in China, and had been elected Bishop for China by the General Convention in 1844 (after the 1842 treaty opened Shanghai to foreign missionaries), then sailed to his diocese with three recent VTS graduates and arrived in June 1845, and accepted another two recent graduates in 1851.〔Tucker pp. 1-7 - 1-15〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Channing Moore Williams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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