Christianity in Jiangsu

Elsewhere in China, Christians are found in significant numbers in Henan, in Anhui and in Shandong.

[3] Amity Foundation, its general secretary being Qiu Zhonghui, has its seat in Nanjing.

[4] Presence of Christians in Jiangsu has been attested as early as the 14th century (see Katarina Vilioni), but when the Jesuit missionaries reached the province in the late 16th century, they were not able to find any Christians there.

Matteo Ricci himself was based in Nanjing for a while, and since then the province had a significant missionary presence, not always entirely welcome by the local population (see e.g. the Yangzhou riot of 1868).

During the Taiping Rebellion, Jiangsu was partly controlled by the rebels, who established their capital in Nanjing, and whose ideology was significantly influenced by Christianity.