Abbreviation | CMS |
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Formation | 12 April 1799 |
Founder | Clapham Sect |
Type | Evangelical Anglicanism Ecumenism Protestant missionary British Commonwealth |
The Church Missionary Society in China was a branch organisation established by the Church Missionary Society (CMS), which was founded in Britain in 1799 under the name the Society for Missions to Africa and the East;[1] as a mission society working with the Anglican Communion, Protestant, and Orthodox Christians around the world. In 1812, the organization was renamed the Church Missionary Society.[2] The missions were financed by the CMS with the local organisation of a mission usually being under the oversight of the Bishop of the Anglican diocese in which the CMS mission operated.