- missionary society
- noun
: a local, denominational, or interdenominational religious organization dedicated to the support of Christian missionary work
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Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle — • A community of priests for giving missions and doing other Apostolic works, especially for making converts to the Catholic faith Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 … Catholic encyclopedia
Missionary Society of St Thomas — The Missionary Society of St Thomas the Apostle is a Catholic missionary organization founded in 1968 in Kerala. It is the missionary of the Syro Malabar Church, for missionary work in less Christian areas in and outside India. It was founded by… … Wikipedia
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Missionary Society of St. James — The Missionary Society of St. James the Apostle, founded by Cardinal Richard Cushing in 1958, is an international organization of diocesan missionary priests who volunteer a minimum of five years of their priestly lives to service in Peru,… … Wikipedia
Peniel Missionary Society — The Peniel Mission was an interdenominational holiness missionary organisation that was started in Los Angeles, California in 1895 by Theodore Pollock Ferguson (1853 1920) and Manie Payne Ferguson (1850 1932) as an outgrowth of their Peniel… … Wikipedia
London Missionary Society — The London Missionary Society was a non denominational missionary society formed in England in 1795 by evangelical Anglicans and Nonconformists, largely Congregationalist in outlook, with missions in the islands of the South Pacific and Africa.… … Wikipedia
London Missionary Society — Die London Missionary Society (LMS) war eine christliche überkonfessionelle Missionsgesellschaft in Großbritannien. Sie ist heute Teil des weltweiten Council for World Mission (CWM), einer weltweiten Vereinigung christlicher Kirchen zum Zweck der … Deutsch Wikipedia
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society — This society is the largest and most influential working organization in the American Church. By means of it the Church shows how aggressive she is, for it has enabled her to place Bishops and Missionaries in many of the States and in all the… … American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia
