The Diocese of Shanghai was an American Anglican bishopric that was involved in missionary work in China during the late Qing dynasty.
Boarding and day schools were quickly established, a medical hospital opened, and Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky was commissioned to prepare a new version of the Bible in the Mandarin dialect which he completed in 1875.
There were other stations at Wuchang, Hankow, Yantai and Beijing which, including those at Shanghai, in 1890 comprised 43 places of worship, ten missionaries, three medical agents, three women agents,[clarification needed] seventeen ordained native ministers, three unordained helpers and about five hundred communicants.
[1] At its general convention in 1844, the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (now called The Episcopal Church) voted to ordain a missionary bishop for the Chinese empire and elected William Jones Boone to the position.
[6] On October 7, 1901, the general convention approved Graves' resolution to divide the jurisdiction (described as "China and the lower Yangtse valley") in two, creating the new Missionary District of Hankow ("to consist of the Provinces of Nganhwai and Hupeh and those portions of Kiangsi and Hunan adjacent to the Yangtse River") and the continuing Missionary District of Shanghai ("to consist of the Province of Kiangsu").