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=='''Anglican Diocese of Iran Records'''== | =='''Anglican Diocese of Iran Records'''== | ||
===Writing for Records=== | ===Writing for Records=== | ||
===Historical Background=== | |||
The Diocese of Iran is one of the four dioceses of the Anglican Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East. The diocese was established in 1912 as the Diocese of Persia and was incorporated into the Jerusalem Archbishopric in 1957. The Church Missionary Society (CMS) was active in Persia from 1869, when the Revdd Robert Bruce established a mission station at Julfa in Ispahan. The CMS mission in Persia expanded to include Kerman, Yezd (1893) and Shiraz (1900), with Mary Bird, a medical missionary, establishing hospitals at Kerman and Yezd. The CMS mission operated hospitals and schools. The beginnings of the Anglican Diocese of Iran were in 1883 when Valpy French, an Episcopal bishop, came to Lahore and traveled through Persia. In 1912, Charles Stileman became the first bishop of the new diocese. | |||
*[ '''Google Maps search results for Anglican churches in Iran'''] | *[ '''Google Maps search results for Anglican churches in Iran'''] | ||
=='''Armenian Apostolic Church of Iran Records'''== | =='''Armenian Apostolic Church of Iran Records'''== | ||