mission
Mission (Latin missio "mission") stands for:
- Order , generally a request for a specific action
- Dissemination of a religious doctrine among people of different faiths, see missionary religion
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Mission (Christianity) , spreading the Christian faith
- a congregation of its own legal form in Catholic canon law, see Missio cum cura animarum
- Settlement for the purpose of Christian missionary activity abroad, see mission station
- Activities to renew faith in an already Christianized population, see Volksmission
- an ecclesiastical administrative unit among the Mormons, see Mission (administrative unit of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
- representation of a state abroad or at international organizations, see diplomatic mission abroad
- UN humanitarian undertakings under international law, see list of UN missions
- an embassy
- Large-scale manned or unmanned space flight project, the space mission
- Mission Motor Car Company , former American automobile manufacturer
- Black Mission , fig species
- South American grape variety, see País
Mission are the following geographical objects:
- Mission Rock , cliff rocks in the archipelago of the Adelaide and Biscoe Islands, Antarctica
- Mission Township - several administrative units
Places and districts:
- Mission (VS) , Switzerland
- Mission (British Columbia) , Canada
- Mission (Calgary) , Alberta, Canada
- Mission District , borough of San Francisco, California
- Mission (Kansas) , United States
- Mission (Oregon) , United States
- Mission (South Dakota) , United States
- Mission (Texas) , United States
historical:
- La Mission de Savana Grande , place in Trinidad as short form, renamed in 1880, see Princes Town (Trinidad and Tobago)
Mission , The Mission , other proper names:
- Miko Mission (Pier Michele Bozzetti, * 1945), Italian musician
- Mission (film) , British drama directed by Roland Joffé (1986)
- The Mission , Hong Kong crime thriller by Johnnie To (1999)
- The Mission (band) , British rock band (since 1986)
See also:
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title begins with Mission
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title contains Mission
- Missions (French TV series)
- Misiones (disambiguation)
Wiktionary: Mission - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
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