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Church Missionary Society

LC control no.n 50055748
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingChurch Missionary Society
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Variant(s)Anjuman-i Tablīghī-i Kilīsā
C.M.S.
Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East
Church of England. Church Missionary Society
CMS
See alsoPredecessor: Society for Missions to Africa and the East
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Successor: Church Mission Society
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Biography/History noteFounded 1799
Beginning date1812
AffiliationChurch of England
Found inStock, E. One hundred years : being the short history of the Church Missionary Society, 1899: p. 11 (founded 1799 under the name Society for Missions to Africa and the East) p. 26 (formally adopted the name Church Missionary Society in 1812)
Church Missionary Society archive. Unofficial papers, accession 237, The papers of and relating to Walter Richard Samuel Miller and his sister Ethel Pady Miller, 1897-1935, c1999: p. 2 (Now called Church Mission Society)
We wish we'd done more, c1998: t.p. (CMS) text (Church Missionary Society)
Pizhūhishī bar faʻālīyāt-i Anjuman-i Tablīghī-i Kilīsā C.M.S. dar dawrah-ʼi Qājārīyah, 1381 [2002 or 2003]: t.p. (Anjuman-i Tablīghī-i Kilīsā)
Handbook to Africa & the East in Bristol, 1920: p. 31 (C.M.S., known today [i.e., 1920] as the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East, founded within the Church of England Apr. 12, 1799 in London)
Associated languageeng