page_title: Church Missionary Society in the Middle East and North Africa
section_title: The Ottoman Empire (Palestine)
hierarchical_section_title: Church Missionary Society in the Middle East and North Africa / The Ottoman Empire (Palestine)
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die evangelische Kirche in Nazareth, erbaut 1871 nach Plänen Ferdinand Stadlers English: Christ Church in Nazareth, built 1871 with plans from Ferdinand Stadler
context_page_description: The Church Missionary Society in the Middle East and North Africa, operated through branch organisations, such as the Mediterranean Mission, with the mission extending to Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Ethiopia and the Sudan. The missions were financed by the CMS with the local organisation of a mission usually being under the oversight of the Bishop of the Anglican diocese in which the CMS mission operated. The CMS made an important contribution to the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East.
  The Church Mission Society, was founded in Britain in 1799 under the name the Society for Missions to Africa and the East; as a mission society working with the Anglican Communion, Protestant, and Orthodox Christians around the world. In 1812, the organization was renamed the Church Missionary Society, and later the Church Mission Society.
context_section_description: The CMS sent missionaries to Palestine (Jerusalem, Gaza, Jaffa, Nazareth, Nablus and Transjordan), which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. The Revd Frederick Augustus Klein arrived in Nazareth in 1851 where he lived for 5–6 years, then he moved to Jerusalem until 1877. Klein discovered the Moabite Stone, and assisted with the translation of the Book of Common Prayer into Arabic.
  Former CMS missionary Samuel Gobat became the second bishop of the Diocese of Jerusalem, and in 1855 invited the CMS to make Palestine a mission field. In 1855 the Revd John Zeller was sent to Nablus. In 1857 he moved to Nazareth, where he stayed for the next 20 years, then he moved to Jerusalem.
  Over the years many missionaries were sent to Jerusalem, Gaza, Jaffa, Nazareth, Nablus and Transjordan, by 1899 there were 59 missionaries in Palestine. The missionaries included John Zeller, who exercised a great influence on the development of Nazareth and founded Christ Church, Nazareth, the first Protestant church in the Galilee, which was consecrated by Gobat in 1871.
  The CMS established hospitals at Gaza, Jaffa, Nablus, Acre, Salt and Karak, and an orphanage at Nazareth. Edith Newton worked at the Jaffa Mission Hospital from 1887 to 1893 along with both of her sisters and fellow missionaries, Constance A. Newton and Frances Newton, who was in Palestine from 1889 until 1938.
  The CMS established a school at Bethlehem, with Miss McNeile as principal; and the Jerusalem Girls' College, with Mabel Clarisse Warburton as the co-founder and first principal from 1919 to 1926. The CMS supported the Bishop Gobat School for boys (est. 1847). The CMS also established the Newman School of Missions, set up by the CMS missionary Eric Bishop, which was established for the study of languages and Islamic studies for missionaries.
  In 1951 it was decided that the Jerusalem and East Mission would take over the work of the CMS in Israel.
caption: Christ Church in Nazareth, built 1871
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