1873

This article includes events that occurred in the Christian world in .

Events

 * A Kulturkampf was started in Prussia and elsewhere against the Church

Births

 * June 4. Charles Fox Parham, father of Modern Pentacostalism.
 * Prince (Bishop) Rudolph de Landas Berghes et de Rache.

Deaths

 * January 13. Henry Venn the younger, who pioneered the basic principles of indigenous church mission theory.
 * July 19. "Soapy Sam" Wilberforce (1805 - 1873), the Bishop of Oxford, who debated against evolution.