List of Protestant missionary societies

The following list of Protestant missionary societies is a list of Protestant Christian missionary organizations that began between 1691–1900.^[1]

Missionary societies in the United Kingdom

1649 New England Company^[2]
1691 Christian Faith Society for the West Indies
1698 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
1701 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
1709 Society in Scotland for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge
1732 Moravian Missions
1792 Baptist Missionary Society
1795 London Missionary Society
1796 Scottish Missionary Society
1799 Church Missionary Society
1799 Religious Tract Society
1804 British and Foreign Bible Society
1809 London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews (now known as the Church's Ministry Among Jewish People or CMJ)
1813 Wesleyan Missionary Society
1817 General Baptist Missionary Society
1823 Colonial and Continental Church Society
1825 Church of Scotland Mission Boards
1825 National Bible Society of Scotland
1831 Trinitarian Bible Society
1832 Wesleyan Ladies' Auxiliary for Female Education in Foreign Countries
1835 United Secession (afterwards United Presbyterian) Foreign Missions
1836 Colonial Missionary Society a.k.a. Commonwealth Missionary Society
1840 Irish Presbyterian Missionary Society
1840 Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Missionary Society
1841 Colonial Bishoprics Fund
1841 Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society
1843 British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Among the Jews
1843 Free Church of Scotland Missions
1843 Primitive Methodist African and Colonial Missions
1843 Methodist New Connexion in England Foreign Missions
1844 South American Missionary Society
1847 Presbyterian Church in England Foreign Missions
1858 Christian Vernacular Education Society for India
1860 Central African Mission of the English Universities
1865 China Inland Mission
1865 Friends' Foreign Mission Association
1866 Delhi Female Medical Mission
1867 Friends' Mission in Syria and Palestine
1877 Cambridge Mission to Delhi
1880 Church of England Zenana Missionary Society
1884 Presbyterian Mission to Korea
1892 Student Volunteer Missionary Union

Missionary societies in the United States and Canada

1733 Corporation for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England
1773 unnamed project for propagating the Gospel to African Guinea with the help of former slaves organized by Ezra Stiles and Samuel Hopkins, its operations apparently disrupted by the American Revolutionary War^[3]
1787 Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians at Boston
1795 Friends' Missionary Society
1800 New York Missionary Society
1800 Connecticut Missionary Society for Indians
1803 United States Mission to the Cherokees
1806 Western Missionary Society for Indians
1810 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
1814 American Baptist Missionary Union (later known as American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and then American Baptist International Ministries)
c. 1818 Female Missionary Society^[4]
1819 Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Society
1826 American Home Missionary Society
1832 American Baptist Home Mission Society
1833 Free-will Baptist Foreign Missionary Society in India
1835 Protestant Episcopal Church Mission
1837 Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church (North)
1837 Evangelical Lutheran Foreign Missionary Society
1842 Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society
1842 Strict Baptist Missionary Society
1843 Baptist Free Missionary Society
1845 Methodist Episcopal Church (South)
1845 Southern Baptist Convention
1846 American Missionary Association
1849 American Christian Missionary Society
1857 Board of Foreign Missions of (Dutch) Reformed Church
1859 Board of Foreign Missions of United Presbyterian Church
1861 Woman's Union Missionary Society of America for Heathen Lands
1862 Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church (South)
1869 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
1874 Christian Woman's Board of Missions
1876 Foreign Christian Missionary Society
1878 Evangelical Association Missionary Society
1879 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Protestant Church^[5]
1882 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Free Methodist Church of North America^[5]
1886 Student Volunteer Missionary Union

Missionary societies in Australia and New Zealand

1864 Australian Baptist Missionary Society
1885 New Zealand Baptist Missionary Society
1892 Open Air Campaigners

Missionary societies in Continental Europe

Notes

^ Darlow, Thomas Herbert (1911). "Bible Societies" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 03 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 905–908.
^ "New England Company".
^ To the Public. There Has Been a Design Formed … to Send the Gospel to Guinea
^ Forssberg, Grant. The Origins of Knox College. Knox College. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
^ ^a ^b Foreign Missions Conference of North America Committee of Reference and Counsel (1919). Foreign Missions Year Book of North America ... Committee of Reference and Counsel of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America, Incorporated. pp. 103–05, 156. Retrieved 30 May 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

References

Darlow, Thomas Herbert (1911). "Bible Societies" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 03 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 905–908.

[1] Darlow, Thomas Herbert (1911). "Bible Societies" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 03 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 905–908.

[2] "New England Company".

[3] To the Public. There Has Been a Design Formed … to Send the Gospel to Guinea

[Knox-4] Forssberg, Grant. The Origins of Knox College. Knox College. Retrieved July 30, 2019.

[Foreign-1919-5] Foreign Missions Conference of North America Committee of Reference and Counsel (1919). Foreign Missions Year Book of North America ... Committee of Reference and Counsel of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America, Incorporated. pp. 103–05, 156. Retrieved 30 May 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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List of Protestant missionary societies

Missionary societies in the United Kingdom

Missionary societies in the United States and Canada

Missionary societies in Australia and New Zealand

Missionary societies in Continental Europe

See also

Notes

References