Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church

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Denominational Profile

History

Oregon Yearly Meeting of the Friends Church

renamed toNorthwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church (1893)

The Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church dates to the movement of Friends into the Willamette Valley of Oregon in the late nineteenth century.

Membership Data

Year	Clergy	Churches	Members
1970	165	63	6,386
1992	160	53	7,422
1993	164	53	7,314

Source

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]