. The
Cambridge Seven, who were missionaries to China through the
China Inland Mission (CIM), arrived in
Shanghai in 1885. Four of them —
William Cassels,
Arthur T. Polhill-Turner,
Cecil H. Polhill-Turner, and
Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp— were sent up by the CIM into the Western Province of
Szechwan, where they established a proper Church of England diocese. Arthur's elder brother, Cecil, felt drawn towards the
people of
Tibet, went to
Tatsienlu, a
Khams Tibetan city located in western Szechwan, and he had laboured on the Sino and Indo-Tibetan borders since then. At the close of 1891, Rev. James Heywood Horsburgh of the
Church Missionary Society (CMS), along with his wife Mrs Horsburgh, Rev. O. M. Jackson, three laymen, and six single women missionaries, entered Szechwan as the first band of CMS missionaries to take up work in that province. By 1894, CMS work had started in
Mienchow,
Chungpa,
Anhsien,
Mienchu and
Sintu, all of which are in the west of the region. A Chinese translation of the
Book of Common Prayer was published in 1932, revised and authorized for use in the Diocese of Szechwan. The Diocese was split into Dioceses of East Szechwan and West Szechwan in 1936. == Bishops and assistant bishops ==