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Foreign Missions Society

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 30, 2023
Entity authorityQ21149039 ↗
Source-derived summary

Foreign Missions Society or Société des Missions-Étrangères may refer to:

Catholic

Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris (Paris Foreign Missions Society) (MEP), founded in Paris, France in 1660

Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), independently founded in Milan in 1850 and Rome in 1874, and merged in 1926.

Saint Joseph's Missionary Society of Mill Hill (MHM), founded in London in 1866.

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“Foreign Missions Society” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Foreign, Missions and Society can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1660, 1850, 1874, 1926—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Foreign, Missions and Society.
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“Foreign Missions Society” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Foreign, Missions and Society provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 30, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q21149039. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1660, 1850, 1874 and 1926.

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This entry incorporates text from “Foreign Missions Society” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.