New Zealand Church Missionary Society
The New Zealand Church Missionary Society (NZCMS) is a mission society working within the Anglican Communion and Protestant, Evangelical Anglicanism. The parent organisation was founded in England in 1799. The Church Missionary Society (CMS) sent missionaries to settle in New Zealand. The Rev. Samuel Marsden, the Society's Agent and the Senior Chaplain to the New South Wales government, officiated at its first service on Christmas Day in 1814, at Oihi Bay in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand.
The Revd Samuel Marsden
Kerikeri Mission Station with the Stone Store at left, St James at rear and Mission House on the right
The first public notice in New Zealand, printed for Kororarika [sic] by the press of the Church Missionary Society in Paihia, in the Bay of Islands
Page ii and iii of Ko te Katekihama III, printed by William Yate, 1830
Nelson is a New Zealand city on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay at the top of the South Island. It is the oldest city in the South Island and the second-oldest settled city in New Zealand; it was established in 1841 and became a city by royal charter in 1858.
View of Nelson from the "Centre of New Zealand" in November 2006
Southern suburbs of Nelson (right) and the nearby town of Richmond (left) seen from the air
Diocese of Nelson Christ Church Cathedral on Church Hill, central Nelson
St Paul's Lutheran Church, Upper Moutere