This is a list of missionaries to Hawaii. Before European exploration, the Hawaiian religion was brought from Tahiti by Paʻao according to oral tradition. Notable missionaries with written records below are generally Christian.
Protestant
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
From the London Missionary Society (deputation of British missionaries and Tahitian teachers on their way to the Marquesas), they arrive from Tahiti on April 16 and returned to Tahiti on August 27, 1822, on the Mermaid:[17]
Rev. William Ellis (1794–1872), who returned on February 4, 1823, on the Active, toured the islands, and published a book about the tour. He left after about eighteen months in the islands.[17][18]
Father Damien de Veuster, SS.CC., (1840–1889), canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in 2009 for dedicating his life to the care of leprosy victims on Molokai, eventually succumbing to the disease himself
Mother Marianne Cope, O.S.F., (1838–1918), who led a group of Sisters from her religious congregation in answer to a plea by the King for nursing care of leprosy victims, and who eventually went to Molokai to help Father Damien in his last days and continue his work; beatified by the Catholic Church in 2005, canonized in October 2012
Brother Joseph Dutton (1843–1931), a lay brother who assisted in Father Damien's work and lived on Molokai from 1886 to his death.
Sister Leopoldina Burns (1855–1942), O.S.F., companion of Mother Marianne Cope in Molokai who helped care for the lepers and served as educator for girls.
Hawaiian Catholics:
Helio Koaʻeloa (1815–1846), an early Catholic lay catechist known as the "Apostle of Maui".
^Orramel Hinckley Gulick (1918). The pilgrims of Hawaii: their own story of their pilgrimage from New England. Fleming H. Revell company. pp. 341–347. ISBN 0-524-09143-9.
^Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 11.
^Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 20.
^Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 28.
^Sheldon Dibble (1843). History of the Sandwich Islands. Lahainaluna: Press of the Mission Seminary.
^Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 33.
^Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 44.
^Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 49.
^Coan, Titus (1882). Life in Hawaii. New York: Anson Randolph & Company. ISBN 0-8370-6036-2.
^Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 54.
^Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 71.
^ a b cHawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 76.
^Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 81.
^Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 86.
^Hawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 93.
^ a bHawaiian Mission Children's Society 1901, p. 9.
^William Ellis (1823). A Journal of a Tour Around Hawaii, the Largest of the Sandwich Islands. Crocker and Brewster, New York, republished 2004, Mutual Publishing, Honolulu. ISBN 1-56647-605-4.
^LDS Church Almanac 2010 Edition, p. 331
^Bureau of Information, Hawaii Temple (1964), The Mormon temple, Laie, Hawaii, LDS Church, p. 3
^"George Quayle Cannon". history.churchofjesuschrist.org. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
References
Thomas G. Thrum (1876). Hawaiian almanac and annual for 1876. Black & Auld, Honolulu. hdl:10524/665.
Hawaiian Mission Children's Society (1901). Portraits of American Protestant Missionaries to Hawaii. Honolulu: The Hawaiian Gazette Co. OCLC 11796269.
Hawaiian Mission Children's Society (1969). Missionary Album: Portraits and Biographical Sketches of the American Protestant Missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu: Hawaiian Mission Children's Society. OCLC 462800869.
Forbes, David W.; Kam, Ralph Thomas; Woods, Thomas A. (2018). Partners in Change: A Biographical Encyclopedia of American Protestant Missionaries in Hawaiʻi and Their Hawaiian and Tahitian Colleagues, 1820–1900. Honolulu: Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site & Archives. ISBN 978-0-692-18267-3. OCLC 1088735785.