Shanghai
Port city near the mouth of the Yangtze. The Anglican bishops of China met there in 1946, and the Little Flock’s Nanyang Road meeting house stood there.
The House of Bishops of the Chinese Anglican church met at Shanghai in March 1946 and there passed its resolution on the ordination of Florence Li Tim Oi (Li and Harrison, Much Beloved Daughter pp. 58–59 (resolution of the House of Bishops, March 1946)); see the First Woman Is Ordained an Anglican Priest. The Nanyang Road meeting house of the Little Flock, the church founded by Watchman Nee, was in the city, and the American editors of the movement’s documents say that its dissenting leaders had been suppressed by 1956 (Jones, Documents of the Three-Self Movement, editors’ introduction, on the committee meeting of March 1956); see the Chinese Church under the People’s Republic.
What happened here
- 1950 to 1954, firm dateThe Chinese Church under the People’s Republic
Protestant leaders in the new People’s Republic sign a manifesto pledging loyalty to the state and an end to foreign ties, and the Three-Self Patriotic Movement is organised. Some pastors refuse to join, and Rome rejects a self-governing Catholic church.