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Colored Methodist Episcopal Church
No description available. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1951 - Clergy: 1,631
- Churches: 2,469
- Members: 392,167
Kodesh Church of Immanuel
The Kodesh Church of Emmanuel is a predominantly black Holiness church founded in 1929 by the Rev. Frank Russell Killingsworth, formerly with the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1980 - Clergy: 28
- Churches: 5
- Members: 326
African Methodist Episcopal Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1787 by the Rev. Richard Allen and former members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1999 - Clergy: 14,428
- Churches: 4,174
- Members: 2,500,000
Reformed Zion Union Apostolic Church
The Reformed Zion Union Apostolic Church was founded in 1869 by Reverend James Howell as a split from the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1965 - Clergy: 4
- Churches: 50
- Members: 16,000
Zion Union Apostolic Church
No description available. Most Recent Membership Data:
Data not available.
Free Christian Zion Church of Christ
The Free Christian Zion Church of Christ is a predominantly black Methodist church founded in 1905 by the Rev. E. D. Brown. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1966 - Clergy: 420
- Churches: 742
- Members: 22,260
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church was founded in 1796 by former members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 2003 - Clergy: 3,827
- Churches: 3,236
- Members: 1,432,795
Free Methodist Church
The Free Methodist Church of North America was founded in 1860 as the result of a split in the Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 2003 - Clergy: 1,888
- Churches: 1,008
- Members: 71,459
Fellowship of Fundamental Bible Churches
The Fellowship of Fundamental Bible Churches was formed by former members of the Methodist Protestant Church in New Jersey who opposed their church’s merger into the Methodist Church in 1939. For many years, the group retained the name Methodist Protestant Church. It adopted the present name in 1985. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1999 - Clergy: 46
- Churches: 22
- Members: 1,125
Bible Protestant Church
No description available. Most Recent Membership Data:
Data not available.
Methodist Protestant Church
No description available. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1937 - Churches: 2,111
- Members: 198,780
First Methodist Protestant Church
The First Colored Methodist Protestant Church was formed about 1840 when members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church rejected episcopal leadership and reorganized along the principles of the Methodist Protestant Church. Most Recent Membership Data:
Data not available.
African Union First Methodist Protestant Church
The African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church is a predominantly black church founded in 1913 by Peter Spencer and William Anderson. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1970 - Clergy: 48
- Churches: 41
- Members: 8,000
Union American Methodist Episcopal Church
The Union American Methodist Episcopal Church is one of two denominations which grew out of a movement within the Methodist Episcopal Church led by two African American members, Peter Spencer and William Anderson. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1957 - Clergy: 276
- Churches: 256
- Members: 27,560
Union Church of Africans
The Union Church of Africans was the first church in the United States to be originally organized by and afterward wholly under the care of black people. Most Recent Membership Data:
Data not available.
Evangelical Methodist Church
The Evangelical Methodist Church is a conservative Evangelical church founded in 1946 by a group of former members of the Methodist Church (1939-1968) under the leadership of Dr. J. H. Hamblen. They protested what they saw as the extreme liberalism of the Methodist Church. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1997 - Clergy: 215
- Churches: 123
- Members: 8,615
Methodist Episcopal Church
No description available. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1937 - Churches: 24,295
- Members: 4,364,342
United Methodist Church
The United Methodist Church, the third largest church in America, continues the Methodist movement founded in the 17th century in England by John Wesley. In 1968, a long process of consolidation of various Methodist churches in the United States culminated in the formation of the United Methodist Church by the merger of the Methodist Church (1939-1968) and the United Evangelical Brethren. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 2002 - Clergy: 44,987
- Churches: 35,102
- Members: 8,251,175
Methodist Church
The Methodist Church was formed in 1939 by a reunion of the Methodist Protestant Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church (North) and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1967 - Clergy: 29,207
- Churches: 38,060
- Members: 10,289,214
Southern Methodist Church
The Southern Methodist Church was founded in 1939 by members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who rejected that church's merger with the Methodist Episcopal Church and Methodist Protestant Church to form The Methodist Church in 1939. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 2003 - Clergy: 163
- Churches: 108
- Members: 6,493
Methodist Episcopal Church (South)
No description available. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1937 - Churches: 16,320
- Members: 2,822,516
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (formerly the Colored Methodist Church) was founded in 1870 by black former members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. It took its present name in 1956. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 2002 - Clergy: 3,407
- Churches: 3,300
- Members: 850,000
Congregational Methodist Church
The Congregational Methodist Church was founded in 1852 by members in Georgia who protested the episcopal structure of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1957 - Clergy: 308
- Churches: 223
- Members: 14,274
Pilgrim Holiness Chuch
No description available. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1967 - Clergy: 1,566
- Churches: 953
- Members: 32,765
Wesleyan Church
The Wesleyan Church is a Holiness church that continues the tradition of the Wesleyan Methodist Church founded in the 1820s by former members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1968 the Wesleyan Methodist Church merged with the Pilgrim Holiness Church to form the Wesleyan Church. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 2003 - Clergy: 3,323
- Churches: 1,609
- Members: 124,550
Wesleyan Methodist Church of America
No description available. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1966 - Clergy: 1,743
- Churches: 1,171
- Members: 49,593
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection
The Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection was founded in 1968 by H. C. Van Wormer, T. A. Robertson, J. N. Markey, F. E. Mansell, and former members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church who rejected its merger with the Pilgrim Holiness Church to form the Wesleyan Church. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 2003 - Clergy: 170
- Churches: 109
- Members: 1,765
Evangelical United Brethren Church
No description available. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1970 - Clergy: 1,750
- Churches: 1,095
- Members: 64,901
United Brethren in Christ
The United Brethren in Christ formed as a result of the work of Philip Otterbein, a German Pietist, with the help of Martin Boehm. Otterbein and Boehm began evangelistic work among the German immigrants in Pennsylvania. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 1944 - Churches: 2,748
- Members: 433,480
United Christian Church
The United Christian Church was founded in 1877 by George W. Hoffman and former members of the United Brethren in Christ. Most Recent Membership Data:
Year 2000 - Clergy: 13
- Churches: 10
- Members: 334
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