The presence of the Catholic Church in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan and city of Chongqing dates back to 1640, when two missionaries, Lodovico Buglio and Gabriel de Magalhães, through J
Artus de Lionne, first Apostolic Vicar of Szechwan
After a portrait of François Pottier painted in 1787 at Chengdu
Interior of Annunciation Church, Dengchigou, former Seminary of Muping
The history of Adventism in Sichuan began in 1914 when American and Chinese missionaries arrived in Chongqing. Adventist missionaries in Sichuan were organized under the Szechwan Mission, later split
Francis Arthur Allum and Evaline Osborne were among the first Adventist missionaries to Sichuan.