Regions

The first missionaries from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) to go to Africa set sail in 1752, to a part of west Africa that is in Ghana today.

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) first sent missionaries to India in 1820, before the country was divided into modern-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

In 1862, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) started sending chaplains to Europe as more British people began visiting the continent or became permanent residents there.

The first missionaries the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) sent to Australia arrived in New South Wales in 1793. Between 1835 and 1841, the SPG’s presence in this region grew, covering Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, Victoria, Queensland and Aotearoa/New Zealand.

The first missionaries from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) to be sent to the Caribbean arrived in the Windward Islands in 1712. SPG missionaries arrived in the Bahamas in 1733.