three Wolfe sisters, Annie and Amy having joined Minnie. In 1910 Archdeacon Wolfe was honoured by the CMS making him a Vice President of the Society the first and only Vice President not to be a bishop. He was further honoured at the eighth Synod of Fuh-Kien held in 1917 when money was pledged by European and Chinese delegates to build a cathedral in his memory. Christ Church Cathedral was consecrated on 13 November 1927. On the right hand side of the main entrance an inscription in Chinese characters marked in stone reads in translation as “with the ancient moon shining upon modern men we commemorate Archdeacon Wolfe who ministered here.” (John Wolfe’s name in Chinese sounded very like the English sounds in ancient moon and became his longstanding nickname.) The church still stands and a Christian congregation worships regularly. From Mission to Diocese Up until 1906 Fuh-Kien was known as the South China Mission of the CMS and was an ecclesiastical archdeaconry of the Diocese of Hong Kong, visited by the Bishops of Hong Kong. In that year Revd J. C. Hoare was appointed bishop of Fuh-Kien followed by Bishops Price and Hind who had served as a missionary in Fuh-Kien since 1902. Under Bishop Hind progress continued on the indigenisation of the Church (all meetings for example, had to use the appropriate Fuh-Kien dialect) and some priority was given to the education and position of women in the church. He strongly encouraged the ordination of women as deaconesses. During his time the CMS passed control of the mission to the diocese and he was a careful organiser and manager of this process. By 1929 only hospitals and dispensaries came under mission control. If Archdeacon Wolfe was father of the mission, Bishop Hind was father of the emerging and strengthening diocese. Hind had appointed Revd Ding Ing Ong as Archdeacon of Fukien in 1917 and he was later in 1927 to become Assistant Bishop. It was in 1944 that the first Chinese Bishop of Fuh-Kien Revd Michael Chang was consecrated. Only five years later the Communist Government was in power and the church’s position equivocal. The CMS and its people had been present in Fuh-Kien from 1850 until 1949 or shortly thereafter. An often mentioned feature of the Mission is the long service given by many, and also its position as the largest mission of the CMS in China.