Church Missionary Society in New Zealand

The Church Missionary Society (CMS), an Anglican mission founded in England in 1799, sent missionaries to settle and work in New Zealand from 1814. The Rev. Samuel Marsden, the Society's agent and senior chaplain to the New South Wales government, officiated at its first service on Christmas Day in 1814, at Oihi Bay, within Rangihoua Bay in the Bay of Islands. Mission stations were founded in turn at Rangihoua, Kerikeri, Paihia and Waimate North, all in the Bay of Islands area. Later they were established in other parts of the country.

A branch of the CMS, the New Zealand Church Missionary Society (NZCMS), was founded in 1892, to send missionaries from New Zealand to other countries. The NZCMS works within the Anglican Communion and Protestant, Evangelical Anglicanism.

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