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586 articles found for “Father Henry Appenzeller; mother Ella Dodge Appenzeller; elder sister Alice Rebecca Appenzeller”

• Alice Rebecca Appenzeller

  Alice Rebecca Appenzeller (1885–1950) was an American Methodist missionary and educator. The daughter of Henry Appenzeller, she was born in Seoul and served as principal of Ewha Haktang and president of Ewha Womans College, laying the foundation for higher education for women in Korea.

• Ella Dodge Appenzeller

  Ella Dodge Appenzeller (1854–c. 1915) was the wife of Henry Appenzeller, a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church (the Northern Methodist church) in the United States. She arrived in Korea (Joseon) with her husband in 1885 as part of one of the earliest Protestant missionary families.

• Henry Dodge Appenzeller

  Henry Dodge Appenzeller (1889–1953) was an American Methodist missionary born in Seoul. He served for about twenty years as the fifth principal of Pai Chai Haktang, the school founded by his father, Henry Appenzeller, and led relief work during the Korean War.

• Matthew Henry

  Matthew Henry (1662–1714) was an English Nonconformist Presbyterian minister and biblical commentator. He wrote the *Exposition of the Old and New Testaments*, commonly known as *Matthew Henry's Commentary*, which is regarded as a classic of devotional commentary.

• Louis Severance

  Louis Henry Severance (1838–1913) was an American businessman and Presbyterian layman. He served as treasurer of Standard Oil and is known as the benefactor who funded the construction of Severance Hospital in Seoul.

• Heinrich Bullinger

  Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575) was a Swiss Reformer. He succeeded Huldrych Zwingli and led the church of Zurich for more than forty years, and he wrote the Second Helvetic Confession.

• Dorothy L. Sayers

  Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) was an English detective novelist, playwright, translator, and Anglican lay Christian writer. She wrote *The Man Born to Be King*, a BBC radio drama on the life of Jesus.

• Father School

  Father School is an interdenominational family-restoration program that began at Duranno Press. Over several weeks, fathers meet together to reflect on their roles as fathers and husbands in light of Scripture. It is also called the Duranno Father School.

• Jeiel (Father of Gibeon)

  Jeiel is a Benjamite recorded in the genealogies of 1 Chronicles as "the father of Gibeon." He is an ancestor of the family that descends through Ner and Kish to King Saul. Several other people with the same name appear in the Bible.

• Joseph (Father of Jesus)

  Joseph was the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and a descendant of David who appears in the birth narratives of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. He is known to have worked as a carpenter in Nazareth and is regarded as the legal father of Jesus.

• Puah (Father of Tola)

  Puah is a man of the tribe of Issachar mentioned in Judges 10:1, the son of Dodo and the father of the judge Tola. Scripture records only his name and lineage, and only once.

• Amoz (Father of Isaiah)

  Amoz was the father of the Old Testament prophet Isaiah. Scripture names him only in the phrase "Isaiah the son of Amoz." Korean Bibles render his name the same as that of the prophet Amos, but the two are different people.

• Joash (Father of Gideon)

  Joash was a member of the Abiezrite clan of the tribe of Manasseh who appears in the Book of Judges as the father of the judge Gideon. He kept an altar of Baal at Ophrah, yet when Gideon tore that altar down, he protected his son from the men of the town.

• Abba, Father

  "Abba" is an Aramaic word meaning "father." It appears three times in the New Testament, always paired with the Greek word for "father" as "Abba, Father": once in Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane and twice in the letters of Paul.

• Priest

  A priest is one of the three holy orders in the Anglican Communion, alongside bishop and deacon, and is an ordained minister who presides at the Eucharist and cares for the church. In Korea priests are commonly addressed as "Father" (sinbu). Unlike Roman Catholic priests, who observe celibacy, Anglican priests may marry.

• Abihail

  Abihail is a personal name in the Old Testament borne by several individuals, both men and women. The best known are the father of Esther, the daughter of Eliab (David's elder brother), and the father of the Levite Zuriel.

• Gadi

  Gadi was the father of Menahem, king of the northern kingdom of Israel. He is mentioned only twice, both times in 2 Kings 15, where his son is introduced as "Menahem the son of Gadi."

• Ginath

  Ginath is an Old Testament figure, named only in 1 Kings 16, who was the father of Tibni, Omri's rival for the throne of the northern kingdom of Israel.

• Maoch

  Maoch is a figure named only once in Scripture, in 1 Samuel 27:2, as the father of Achish, the king of Gath with whom David took refuge while fleeing from Saul.

• Buzi

  Buzi was the father of the prophet Ezekiel and an Old Testament figure whose name appears only once, in Ezekiel 1:3. He is understood to have belonged to a priestly family.