- Also known as
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United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
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primary name: United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
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other name: S.P.G.
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other name: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Missionary Society
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other name: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
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other name: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
- Details
- organisation; institution/organisation
- Other dates
- 1701-
- Address
- http://www.uspg.org.uk
- Biography
- Anglican missionary organization; formed in 1701 by Revd. Dr Thomas Bray and Henry Compton, Bishop of London as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; became USPG in 1965 on its merger with Universities' Mission to Central Africa; in 1968 joined by the Cambridge Mission to Delhi; November 2012 changed name to United Society. Initially created in response to the state of the Church of England in the American colonies. SPG quickly expanded their domain and sent missionaries to the West Indies, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, West Africa, India, South Africa, China and Japan.
- Bibliography
- C.F. Pascoe, Two hundred years of the SPG: an historical account of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1701-1900 (London: [Society for the Propagation of the Gospel], 1901); Revd. H.P. Thompson, Into all lands: the history of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1701-1950 (London: SPCK, 1951); A.E.M. Anderson-Morshead and A.G. Blood, The history of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (London: Universities' Mission to Central Africa, 1955-[1965?]); Daniel O'Connor et al, Three centuries of mission: the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1701-2000 (London: Continuum, 2000).
