Christopher Sargent

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Rev. Christopher Birdwood Roussel Sargent

Headmaster of the Diocesan Boys' School
In office 1932–1938
Preceded by	Rev. William T. Featherstone
Succeeded by	Gerald Archer Goodban

Personal details
Born	(1904-06-04)4 June 1904 United Kingdom of GB & I
Died	8 August 1943(1943-08-08) (aged 37) Fuzhou, Republican China
Cause of death	Malaria
Education	St.Paul's School St. Catherine's College
Occupation	Schoolmaster Bishop

Christopher Birdwood Roussel Sargent (舒展; 4 June 1906 – 8 August 1943) was a schoolmaster, missionary, and bishop of the Anglican Church.

Sargent was born into an ecclesiastical family on 4 June 1906, the son of Church of England priest Douglas Harry Grose Sargent.^[1] He was educated at St Paul's School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, then worked as a schoolmaster teaching physics at Wellington College until 1932. At the invitation of Charles Ridley Duppuy, Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong, in 1932 he became the headmaster of the Diocesan Boys' School, Hong Kong. He was ordained as a deacon in 1934^[2] and took up the post of assistant bishop of the Diocese of Fukien in 1938;^[3]^[4] he was consecrated by Ronald Hall, Bishop of Victoria.^[5] He became diocesan bishop of the same diocese, the Bishop in Fukien, in 1940.^[6] Sargent died of malaria in Fuzhou on 8 August 1943.^[7]

Materials for a biography of Reverend Sargent were collected by Reverend Robert W. Howard.

References

^ Who Was Who 1897–1990 (London, A & C Black 1991, ISBN 0-7136-3457-X)
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940–1941 Oxford, OUP,1941
^ Ecclesiastical News Assistant Bishop In Fukien DioceseThe Times Tuesday, Jun 21, 1938; pg. 21; Issue 48026; col G
^ "New Assistant Bishop to the Bishop in Fukien". Church Times. No. 3935. 24 June 1938. p. 749. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via UK Press Online archives.
^ Chan-Yeung, Moira M. W. (December 2015). The Practical Prophet: Bishop Ronald O. Hall of Hong Kong and His Legacies. Hong Kong University Press. p. 215. ISBN 9789888208777.
^ "New Bishop of Fukien". Church Times. No. 4054. 4 October 1940. p. 649. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via UK Press Online archives.
^ Obituary The Rt Rev C. B. R. Sargent The Times Wednesday, Aug 11, 1943; pg. 7; Issue 49621; col E

Church of England titles
Preceded by John Hind	Bishop in Fukien 193401943	Succeeded by Michael Chang

v t e Anglican Missionary Bishops in China, 1849–1949
Shensi	Shen Zigao Newton Liu
Chekiang	William Russell George Moule Herbert Molony John Curtis Kimber Den
North China	Charles Scott Frank Norris Thomas Scott
Western Szechwan	John Holden Song Cheng-tsi
Eastern Szechwan	William Cassels Howard Mowll John Holden Frank Houghton Kenneth Bevan
Shantung	Geoffrey Iliff Thomas Scott John Wellington
Fukien	Horace Price John Hind Christopher Sargent Michael Chang
Honan	William White Lindel Tsen
Kwangsi and Hunan	William Banister John Holden Percy Stevens

v t e Protestant missionaries in Fuzhou
ABCFM	Caleb Cook Baldwin Willard Livingstone Beard Justus Doolittle Charles Hartwell Emily Susan Hartwell Lewis Hodous Stephen Johnson Alden E. Matthews Dauphin William Osgood Lyman Burt Peet
AME	Stephen Livingstone Baldwin James Whitford Bashford Elizabeth Fisher Brewster Judson Dwight Collins Otis Gibson Elizabeth Chamberlain Gibson John W. Gowdy William Henry Lacy George Carleton Lacy Hiram Harrison Lowry Robert Samuel Maclay James Simester Nathan Sites Erastus Wentworth Moses Clark White Isaac William Wiley
CMS	John Shaw Burdon John Hind Joseph Charles Hoare W. S. Pakenham-Walsh Horace MacCartie Eyre Price C. B. R. Sargent George Smith (bishop) Robert Warren Stewart
Swedish Lutheran	Carl Joseph Fast
Independent	Margaret E. Barber

v t e Protestant missions to China
Background	Protestantism in China Protestantism in Sichuan Chinese history Missions timeline Christianity in China Nestorians Jesuits Protestant missions in China 1807–1953
People	David Howard Adeney Mary Ann Aldersey Roland Allen Thomas J. Arnold Gladys Aylward Joseph Beech John Birch William Jones Boone Pearl S. Buck John Burdon Thomas Cochrane Hunter Corbett Jonathan Goforth Frederick Graves Karl Gützlaff Francis Hanson Laura Askew Haygood Elizabeth G. K. Hewat Jennie V. Hughes Robert A. Jaffray Carl C. Jeremiassen Griffith John Walter Judd James Legge Eric Liddell Robert Samuel Maclay Lottie Moon Robert Morrison George Moule Gideon Nye David Paton Karl Ludvig Reichelt Timothy Richard Issachar Jacox Roberts Charles Scott Cambridge Seven George Smith Vincent John Stanton John and Betty Stam John Leighton Stuart Elwood Gardner Tewksbury Hudson Taylor Thomas Torrance William C. White (more missionaries)
Missionary agencies	American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions American Methodist Episcopal Mission Canadian Methodist Mission China Inland Mission Church Mission Society London Missionary Society National Christian Council US Presbyterian Mission Protestant Episcopal Church Mission List of Protestant missionary societies in China (1807–1953)
Colleges and universities	United Board University of Shanghai Cheeloo University Ginling College University of Nanking Soochow University Yenching University St. John's University Hangchow University Fukien Christian University Lingnan University College of Yale-in-China Huachung University West China Union University Peking Union Medical College Methodist Episcopal Church Hwa Nan College English Presbyterian Mission Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association Reformed Church in the United States
Impact	Bible translations into Chinese Medical missions in China Manchurian revival Chinese Christian colleges Chinese hymnody Chinese Roman Type Minnan Roman Type Foochow Roman Type Anti-footbinding Anti-opium
Pivotal events	Taiping Rebellion First Opium War Second Opium War Unequal treaty Yangzhou riot Tianjin Massacre Kucheng Massacre Boxer Crisis 1911 Revolution Chinese Civil War Second Sino-Japanese War People's Republic
Publications	The Chinese Repository Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal The Christian Occupation of China Journal of the West China Border Research Society The West China Missionary News

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