We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New England theology.

* 1703 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1775 )

* 1534 – Saint Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.

* 1506 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary, co-founder of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1552 )

Western casuistry dates from Aristotle ( 384 – 322 BC ), yet the zenith of casuistry was from 1550 to 1650, when the Society of Jesus used case-based reasoning, particularly in administering the Sacrament of Penance ( or " confession ").

* Regimini militantis Ecclesiae was the papal bull promulgated by Pope Paul III on September 27, 1540, which gave a first approval to the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits, but limited the number of its members to sixty.

Francis Xavier, born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta ( 7 April 1506 – 3 December 1552 ) was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary born in the Kingdom of Navarre ( now part of Spain ) and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.

Together with Loyola and five others, he founded the Society of Jesus: on 15 August 1534, in a small chapel in Montmartre, they made vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and also vowed to convert the Muslims in the Middle East ( or, failing this, carry out the wishes of the Pope ).

After successive appeals to the Pope asking for missionaries for the East Indies under the Padroado agreement, John III was enthusiastically advised by Diogo de Gouveia, rector of the Collège Sainte-Barbe, to draw the newly graduated youngsters that would establish the Society of Jesus.

* The Goa Jesuit Province of the Society of Jesus: The Jesuits in Goa

The Genealogical Society of Utah, founded in 1894, later became the Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS ).

He became a member of the Society of Jesus in 1600, and was distinguished for his knowledge of mathematics and theology.

He entered the Society of Jesus and was sent to the East.

* Chancey, Mark A., Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 ) ( Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 134 ).

Ignatius Loyola acknowledged that Cardinal Contarini was largely responsible for the papal approbation of the Society of Jesus, on September 27, 1540.

* 1819 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss missionary, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1892 )

He entered the Society of Jesus in 1737 and was sent in 1750 as a missionary to China.

The Society of Jesus (, S. J., SJ or SI ) is a Christian male religious order that follows the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.

The opening lines of this founding document would declare that the Society of Jesus was founded to " strive especially for the propagation and defense of the faith and progress of souls in Christian life and doctrine.

The Society of Jesus is consecrated under the patronage of Madonna Della Strada, a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and it is led by a Superior General, currently Adolfo Nicolás.

* 1842 – The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is formed ;

* 1866 – Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1942 )

The " Black Pope " is a name that was popularly, but unofficially, given to the Superior General of the Society of Jesus due to the Jesuits ' importance within the Church.

During the next 200 years, the Roman Catholic Church, especially the ascetic members of the Society of Jesus ( Jesuits ), influenced the colony more strongly than the governors who succeeded Irala.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

* 1845 – The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

In 1905 Widor and Schweitzer were among the six musicians who founded the Paris Bach Society, a choir dedicated to performing J. S.

The Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1882 with the express intention of investigating phenomena relating to Spiritualism and the afterlife.

In November 1830, he and William Lloyd Garrison founded what he later called a " preliminary Anti-Slavery Society ", though he differed from Garrison as a nonresistant.

In 1975, the " Islamic Society " split between supporters of Massoud and Rabbani, who led the Jamiat-i Islami, and elements surrounding Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who then founded the Hezb-i Islami.

In 1831 the Nova Scotia Baptist Education Society founded Queen's College.

In 1838, the Nova Scotia Baptist Education Society founded Queen's College ( named for Queen Victoria ).

* 1971 – The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.

However, perhaps the first organised attempt to conserve cultural patrimony was the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in the UK, influenced by the writings of John Ruskin the society was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877.

In 1912, the Anthroposophical Society was founded.

* 1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ( ASPCA ) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.

He proposed the Celsius temperature scale in a paper to the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, the oldest Swedish scientific society, founded in 1710.

The first building society to be established was Ketley's Building Society, founded by Richard Ketley, the landlord of the Golden Cross inn, in 1775.

In the same decade, the journal Cognitive Science and the Cognitive Science Society were founded.

The National Speleological Society of the USA was later founded in 1941 ( originally formed as the Speleological Society of the District of Columbia on May 6, 1939 ) and the Swiss Society of Speleology created in 1939 in Geneva, but the first speleological institute in the world was founded in 1920 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Emil Racovita, a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.

The Charles S. Peirce Society was founded in 1946.

An international daily newspaper, the Christian Science Monitor, founded by Eddy in 1908 and winner of seven Pulitzer prizes, is published by the church through the Christian Science Publishing Society.

She also founded The Doris Day Animal League, which merged into The Humane Society of the United States in 2006.

The College's founder Eleazar Wheelock designed a seal for his college bearing a striking resemblance to the seal of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, a missionary society founded in London in 1701, in order to maintain the illusion that his college was more for mission work than for higher education.