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Records documenting the domestic and foreign operation and program of the offices and agents of the Board of Missions, including entities with loose reporting relationship or funded directly by the Board of Missions. Some Board of Missions fonds and records may have been processed with a continuing body of records or a similar function of a National Council successor unit, or even with a continuing Executive Council entity. Some notes indicate that archivists arranged early records in large groupings for convenience (cf.., introductory notes for RG 45 and RG 50).

A category that distinguishes the establishment of foreign mission churches and the missionaries sent by the DFMS, including personnel records generated on individuals engaged in work outside the United States and in Episcopal Church provincial jurisdiction. The records document recruitment, training, and placement of DFMS missionaries or representatives, mission volunteers, and others engaged in evangelism or service work abroad or in technical assistance to others in jurisdictions beyond the United States. The records also frequently contain abundant personal information on individual experiences in foreign service.

Includes records of directors and staff of offices that address the needs and development of under represented constituencies within The Episcopal Church (e.g., Black Ministries, Hispanic Ministries, and Indigenous Ministries); also includes ministries to young people. See also Social Justice and Public Advocacy for related records.

Records of offices and staff engaged in the Episcopal Church's ecumenical and interreligious relationships, including meeting records of Episcopal and Anglican dialogues, consultations, and covenanted agreements; conversations with faith traditions, work with ecumenical organizations such as the NCCC and WCC, on-going work with full communion partners, and operational files.

Records of the proceedings and directly supervised programs of the entities under the management of the Executive Council. Records include proceedings, minutes, reports, documents, governance records, and some administrative records. With the consolidation of executive powers under the primate after 1973, staff offices typically associated with the National/Executive Council were placed under the authority of the Presiding Bishop acting as mission program or administrative entities. These staff offices exist as a separate categories of mission program or in their administrative capacity with the DFMS.

Archives of the nine provinces of General Convention including journals of the synod, minutes of the synod, executive committees, and ad hoc committees, program and project files, reports and publications.

Manuscript collection created by General Convention mandate and appointment of a Conservator, Francis Lister Hawks and _Perry, including subsequent additions; sometimes called the Hawks Manuscript Collection, the whole includes several other MSS collections.

Includes records of bishops suffragan and assisting and their offices, which are authorized to engage in such jurisdictional areas as the Pastoral Care and Oversight of Bishops, Chaplaincy Endorsement and Oversight, the charge of Episcopal Churches in Europe, and similar non-geographical Episcopal authorities and jurisdictions.

A category used for rare instances of records documenting an event that is outside the official duties of the office that may be sponsored or nominally led by the primate by but not directly operated or overseen by a position within the office operation.

Permanent records of financial accounting and status. The records include accounts payable and receivable (including donations and gifts), standard financial statements, ledgers, charts of account, financial reports and analysis, proposed and final budgets, and distribution of cash funds for awarded grants.

This class is used to hold the executive-level records related to the supervision and administration of DFMS operations, especially, but not exclusively, the records of the Chief Operating Officer and functions overseen by that person and staff (e.g. IT/T, property management, human resources). Records may include records relating to the organization of the Mission Program units, internal management policies, staff-wide development projects, and activities.

Legal correspondence, opinions, litigation, advisories, case files, property records, insurance claims, contracts, copyright and service marks, and related legal records of internal and external counsel, including records of the Chief Legal Officer. (See also records of the Presiding Bishop's Chancellor.)