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Church Missionary Society begins work in Madras

· Chennai

After the Charter Act of 1813 allowed missionaries into India, the Church Missionary Society placed its first missionaries at Madras in 1814.

Until 1813 the East India Company controlled access to India and allowed its chaplains to serve only the European community. The Charter Act of 1813 opened the country to missionaries, and in 1814 the Church Missionary Society began sending missionaries to India. Of the seven it sent between 1814 and 1816, two were placed at Madras, among them C. T. E. Rhenius. The society extended its work to Tirunelveli in 1820, where Rhenius gathered the first CMS congregation at Palayamkottai.

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