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• Manmin Central Church

  Manmin Central Church is a church founded by Lee Jae-rock in 1982 in Guro District, Seoul. It has been declared heretical by the Jesus Korea Sungkyul Church, the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap), the Presbyterian Church in Korea (Hapshin), the Christian Council of Korea, and others.

• Yi Sang-jae

  Yi Sang-jae (李商在, 1850–1927) was a reform-minded official of the Korean Empire and an independence activist. His pen name was Wollam (月南). He embraced the Christian faith while in prison, and after his release he led the YMCA, combining the Christian youth movement with the national movement.

• Lee Hyun-pil

  Lee Hyun-pil (1913–1964) was a Korean Protestant lay ascetic active during the Japanese colonial period and after liberation. He founded Donggwangwon, a community devoted to poverty, chastity (celibacy), and labor, and is known as the "Barefoot Saint."

• Lee Strobel

  Lee Strobel (born 1952) is an American Christian author and pastor. An atheist while working as the legal affairs reporter for the Chicago Tribune, he converted to Christianity and is known as an apologist and the author of The Case for Christ.

• Lee Chang-woo (pastor)

  Lee Chang-woo (1931–2002) was a Korean Presbyterian minister. In 1961 in Gwangju he founded the University Bible Fellowship (UBF) together with Sarah Barry, a missionary of the Southern Presbyterian Church in the United States, and he led the organization until his death in 2002.

• Yi Gi-pung

  Yi Gi-pung (李基豊, 1865–1942) was a Presbyterian minister. In 1907 he became one of the first seven Koreans ordained to the ministry. As the first missionary sent out by the Independent Presbytery of the Korean Presbyterian Church, he founded churches on Jeju Island. He died from the effects of torture he suffered for refusing Shinto shrine worship.

• Yi Ja-ik

  Yi Ja-ik (李自益) was a Korean Presbyterian minister active during the Japanese colonial period and the years immediately following liberation. Once a hired farmhand in the household of a wealthy family in Gimje, he became a minister, served three terms as moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, and was the first principal of Daejeon Theological Seminary.

• Yi Yong-do

  Yi Yong-do (李龍道, 1901–1933) was a Methodist minister and revivalist active in Korea during the Japanese colonial period and is officially recognized for his contributions to Korean independence. In the early 1930s he led revival meetings throughout the country, but critics accused him of mysticism, and he became embroiled in a heresy controversy at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church.

• Yi Se-jong

  Yi Se-jong (李世鍾) was a lay believer in Hwasun, South Jeolla Province, during the Japanese colonial period who read the Bible, gave away his property, and lived a life of asceticism and voluntary poverty. He was known as "Yi Gong" (李空, "Yi the Empty") and is remembered as the teacher of Yi Hyeon-pil.

• Yi Su-jeong (Evangelist)

  Yi Su-jeong (李樹廷, 1842–1886) was a yangban scholar of the late Joseon period. He was baptized in Tokyo, Japan, in 1883, appealed to American churches to send missionaries, and published a translation of the Gospel of Mark in mixed Korean-Chinese script.

• Yi Seung-hun (Catholic)

  Yi Seung-hun (李承薰, 1756–1801) was a Korean Catholic of the late Joseon period whose baptismal name was Peter. Baptized in Beijing in 1784, he became the first Korean to receive baptism and is counted among the founders of the Catholic Church in Korea.

• Yi Byeok

  Yi Byeok (李檗, 1754–1785) was a Catholic believer of the late Joseon period. He is regarded as one of the lay leaders who, together with Yi Seung-hun, Kwon Il-sin, and others, founded the Catholic Church in Joseon Korea. His pen name was Gwangam, and his baptismal name was John the Baptist.

• Local Church

  The Local Church is a Christian movement begun in twentieth-century China by Watchman Nee and continued and spread by Witness Lee. Holding that there is only one church in each city, it does not use denominational names. Several Korean Presbyterian denominations have declared it heretical.

• Ahn Ei-sook

  Ahn Ei-sook (1908–1997) was a Korean Protestant believer who was imprisoned for about six years during the Japanese colonial period for refusing Shinto shrine worship. She later served in the United States as the wife of a Baptist pastor and was the author of the memoir If I Perish (Jugeumyeon jugeurira).

• Good Neighbors

  Good Neighbors is a South Korean international relief and development NGO (non-governmental organization) founded in 1991 by Il-ha Lee under the name Korea Neighbors' Love Society (Hanguk Iutsaranghoe). It carries out both child rights protection programs in South Korea and development cooperation programs overseas.

• University Bible Fellowship

  University Bible Fellowship (UBF) is an interdenominational campus mission organization founded in Gwangju in 1961 by Lee Chang-woo and Sarah Barry, a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (Southern Presbyterian Church). It is known for one-to-one Bible study and overseas university missions.

• Guwonpa (Salvation Sect)

  Guwonpa ("Salvation Sect") is the collective name Korean Protestants use for the Kwon Shin-chan–Yoo Byung-eun line, which began in Daegu in the early 1960s, and for the Lee Yo-han and Park Ock-soo lines, which either split from it or share its roots. Korea's major denominations have declared it heretical.

• Shincheonji

  Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (Shincheonji), is a new religious movement founded by Lee Man-hee in 1984 in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Major Korean Protestant denominations, including the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap), the Presbyterian Church in Korea (Hapdong), and the Korea Evangelical Holiness Church, have declared it heretical.

• Sarah Barry

  Sarah Barry (born 1930) is a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS, the Southern Presbyterian Church). In 1961 she co-founded University Bible Fellowship (UBF) in Gwangju with Samuel Lee (Lee Chang-woo), and in 2002 she became the second general director of UBF worldwide.

• Crete

  Crete is a large island in the eastern Mediterranean, south of the Aegean Sea, corresponding to the island of Crete in modern Greece. In the New Testament it appears as a place Paul sailed past while being taken to Rome and as the place where Titus ministered by appointing elders.