The Church Mission Society's own official history of its founding records that evangelical Church of England clergy, including William Wilberforce, John Venn and John Newton, founded the society in London on 12 April 1799 as a membership organization to recruit laypeople willing to undertake missionary work the Church of England had been reluctant to send itself, and that its earliest overseas mission work began in Sierra Leone in 1804 before expanding to India, Canada, New Zealand and the Mediterranean.
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The Church Mission Society's own official page telling its own founding history, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable institutional self histories, used here for the society's 12 April 1799 founding date, its founders and its early missionary expansion, corroborated by Kevin Ward's academic history of global Anglicanism. Citation
PublisherChurch Mission Society
URLhttps://churchmissionsociety.org/about/our-story/
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This source names Canada directly: "in 1804 before expanding to India, Canada, New Zealand and the Mediterranean."
This source names John Newton directly: "William Wilberforce, John Venn and John Newton, founded the society in London on 12 April 1799 as a membership organization to recruit laypeople willing to undertake missionary work the Church of..."
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- Sources, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds.
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