New Zealand Church Missionary Society

New Zealand Church Missionary Society
AbbreviationNZCMS
Formation12 April 1799 (UK parent organisation); 1892 (NZ branch)
FounderClapham Sect
TypeEvangelical Anglicanism
Ecumenism
Protestant missionary
Headquarters78 Peterborough Street
Christchurch
8144
New Zealand
Websitewww.nzcms.org.nz

The New Zealand Church Missionary Society (NZCMS) is a mission society working within the Anglican Communion and Protestant, Evangelical Anglicanism. The parent organisation was founded in England in 1799.[1][2] The Church Missionary Society (CMS) sent missionaries to settle in New Zealand. The Rev. Samuel Marsden,[3] the Society's Agent and the Senior Chaplain to the New South Wales government, officiated at its first service on Christmas Day in 1814, at Oihi Bay in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand.[4]

  1. ^ Mounstephen, Philip (2015). "Teapots and DNA: The Foundations of CMS". Intermission. 22.
  2. ^ Keen, Rosemary. "Church Missionary Society Archive". Adam Matthew Publications. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  3. ^ Marsden, Samuel. "The Marsden Collection". Marsden Online Archive. University of Otago. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
  4. ^ Troughton, Geoffrey, ed. (2017). Saints and Stirrers: Christianity, Conflict and Peacemaking in New Zealand, 1814–1845. Wellington : Victoria University Press. ISBN 9781776561643.