Church Missionary Society in China
| Abbreviation | CMS |
|---|---|
| Formation | 12 April 1799 |
| Founder | Clapham Sect |
| Type |
Evangelical Anglicanism Ecumenism Protestant missionary British Commonwealth |
The Church Missionary Society in China was a branch organisation established by the Church Missionary Society (CMS), which was founded in Britain in 1799 under the name the Society for Missions to Africa and the East; as a mission society working with the Anglican Communion, Protestant, and Orthodox Christians around the world. In 1812, the organization was renamed the Church Missionary Society. The missions were financed by the CMS with the local organisation of a mission usually being under the oversight of the Bishop of the Anglican diocese in which the CMS mission operated.
Robert Morrison, of the London Missionary Society established a mission in Guangzhou (Canton) in 1808, however the work of Christian missionaries was restricted by the Chinese authorities. After the First Opium War (1839–1842), Hong Kong came under the control of Great Britain and ports on the mainland, including Canton and Shanghai, become open to Europeans. in 1844 the CMS sent the Reverend George Smith (later Bishop of Victoria, H.K.) and the Revd T. McClatchie to establish the South China Mission at Shanghai.
The South China Mission was extended to Zhejiang province (Cheh-kiang) at Ningbo (1848), Fujian province (Fuh-Kien) at Fuzhou (Fuh-Chow) (May 1850), Hong Kong (1862), Guangdong province (Kwan-tung) (1878) and later to Sichuan province (Si-chuen) in south west China (1890).
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