Denominational Profile

Notes

The International General Assembly of Spiritualists was incorporated in 1936 in Buffalo, New York, by the Rev. Arthur A. Ford (1897-1971), Fred Constantine, and eight other Spiritualist ministers.

Membership Data

Year	Clergy	Churches	Members
1940	-	90	1,350
1945	-	236	100,000
1946	-	-	100,000
1947	-	175	150,000
1952	170	182	157,000
1955	183	201	163,000
1956	190	209	164,072

Data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. Denomination descriptions provided by Dr. J. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion (ISAR). [More information on data sources]