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A mission, from the Latin missum (English: sent), is a specific task with which a person or group has been charged.

Mission may also refer to:

Religion and politics

• Diplomatic mission, a diplomatic outpost in a foreign territory
• Mission (Christian), a movement or outpost of Christian proclamation of the faith
  • Mission (station), a base of missionary practice
• List of Spanish missions, various missions established by the Spanish in the New World (modern Latin America, mostly) both to spread Christianity and to oversee colonization.
• Bolivarian Missions, a series of social programs created during Hugo Chávez's rule of Venezuela.
• Captain Mission, an 18th century pirate [[spaduti]] and captain of The Republic of the Sea who founded a short-lived utopian society.
• Missions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the administrative areas, often based on geographic regions, of proselyting or service assignments by the LDS church
  • Mormon missionary

Geography

In the United States:

• Mission District, San Francisco, California, a neighborhood of San Francisco.
  • Mission High School (San Francisco, California), a high school there.
• Mission, Kansas
• Mission, Oregon
• Mission, South Dakota
• Mission, Texas

In Canada:

• Mission, British Columbia, a district municipality in British Columbia
• Mission, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta

In Brazil:

• Missões, Brazil, a region of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil roughly occupying the same area previously dominated by the colonial missions founded by Padre Roque Gonzales.
  • São Miguel das Missões, one of the best preserved of the old colonial missions.
  • Guarani das Missões
  • São Paulo das Missões
  • Campina das Missões

The Arts

• Mission Revival Style architecture, a style of architecture harkening back to the Spanish missions in California.
• The Mission Style of decorative arts, related to Arts and Crafts and Gustav Stickley.
• The Mission (British band), known as The Mission UK in the United States, a gothic rock band.
• Mission (TV series), an animated television series.
• The Mission (movie), a 1986 film in which a Christian mission attempts to aid local Guaraní Indians against colonial oppression.
• Mission Records, a record label

Other uses

• Space mission, the launch of craft into outer space.
  • List of human spaceflights, a list of manned space missions.
• Mission statement, a statement of purpose used by many businesses and institutions.
• Military operation ("mission"), a military action.
• Mission Vao, a character in the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
• Mission (grape), a variety of grape.
• Mission bottle, a bottle in a pharmacy for an oral liquid drug given to a patient (as opposed to a stock bottle, which usually contains a bulk amount of liquid and is not to be given to patients).
• Mission (people), an ethnic group.
• Mission (slang), a slang term often used to describe a task or objective of which is considered difficult by the user
• Mission British manufacturer of loudspeakers now owned by IAG
• Mission (hockey), an ice and roller hockey skates and equipment manufacturer

See also

• Quest
• Missionary

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