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The CMS mission in Calcutta was started in 1822. The first CMS school was opened at Kidderpore, a suburb of Calcutta, in 1816; and the first girls’ school in 1822, by Miss M. A. Cooke, at Calcutta. [7] Reginald Heber, the Bishop of Calcutta (1823–1826) supported the work of the CMS mission. The Revd James Long joined the mission in 1840.
The logo of Church Missionary Society in 1799. The original proposal for the mission came from Charles Grant and George Udny of the East India Company and David Brown, of Calcutta, who sent a proposal in 1787 to William Wilberforce, then a young member of parliament, and Charles Simeon, a young clergyman at Cambridge University.
James Mills Thoburn (March 7, 1836 – November 28, 1922) was an American bishop and missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church as well as an author. He did missionary work in India and greatly increased the number of Christian practitioners in that country.
Charles Theophilus Ewald Rhenius (5 November 1790 – 5 June 1838) was a German-born missionary of the Church Mission Society (CMS). He was the first CMS missionary to arrive at India. For his missionary work in the Tirunelveli district he came to be known as the "Apostle of Tirunelveli".
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Bust of James Long on James Long Sarani, Kolkata. James Long (1814–1887) was an Anglo-Irish priest of the Anglican Church.A humanist, educator, evangelist, translator, essayist, philanthropist and a missionary to India, he resided in the city of Calcutta, India, from 1840 to 1872 as a member of the Church Missionary Society, leading the mission at Thakurpukur.
Zenana missions was the strongest feature of this society's labors from the beginning. In Calcutta, it was known as "The American Doremus Zenana Mission". It included the superintendent (always one of the missionary women); 16 missionaries; 55 native teachers; zenana pupils, 1,000; schools, 50; suburban schools, in Kanpur, 12; and Entally, two.
One Mission Society (formerly known as Oriental Missionary Society and OMS International) is an Evangelical Christian missionary society. It is based in Indiana, US. It is based in Indiana, US. It was founded in 1901 by Charles Cowman , Lettie Cowman , Juji Nakada , and Ernest A. Kilbourne .