Mission Society of the Philippines

The Mission Society of the Philippines (MSP) is a Society of Apostolic Life of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church. It was established by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) in 1965 as the official and chief missionary arm of Roman Catholicism in the Philippines, and received its pontifical right status on January 6, 2009 from the Vatican's Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (CEP).

The society works in twelve countries on five continents. It has missions in Asia in Thailand, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea; in Oceania, in Papua-New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and Cook Islands; in Europe, in the Netherlands and in England; in the United States of America; and in South America, in Guyana.

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