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John Coleridge Patteson (1 April 1827 – 20 September 1871) was an English Anglican bishop and martyr. He studied at Oxford University and did more study of languages in Germany becoming ordained as a priest in England in 1854.A missionary to the South Seas from 1855 Patteson became an accomplished linguist learning 23 of the islands’ more than 1000 languages. In 1861 he was selected as the first Bishop of Melanesia. Patteson was killed by natives on Nukapu in the Solomon Islands.
