In 1865, the Rev. A. W. Murray of the LMS, a Protestant congregationalist missionary society, arrived as the first European missionary; he also evangelised among the inhabitants of Tuvalu. By 1878 Protestantism was considered well established, as there were preachers on each island. In the later 19th and early 20th centuries, the ministers of what became the Church of Tuvalu (''Te Ekalesia Kelisiano Tuvalu'') were predominantly Samoans, who influenced the development of the Tuvaluan language and the music of Tuvalu.