John Patteson
Deceased Person
1827 – 1871
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Who was John Patteson?
John Coleridge Patteson was an English Anglican bishop and martyr. He studied at Oxford University and did more study of languages in Germany, becoming ordained as a priest in England in 1854.
A missionary to the South Seas from 1855, Patteson became an accomplished linguist, learning 23 of the islands' more than 1,000 languages. In 1861, he was selected as the first Bishop of Melanesia. Patteson was killed by natives on Nukapu, in the Solomon Islands. He is commemorated in the Church of England on 20 September.
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- Born
- Apr 1, 1827
London - Religion
- Anglicanism
- Education
- Balliol College
- Eton College
- Died
- Sep 20, 1871
Nukapu
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on July 23, 2013
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