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unusual facts about Mennonites



1874 in Canada

Anabaptists (Russian Mennonites) start to arrive in Manitoba from various Russian colonies.

Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church

The Przechówko church in West Prussia, the mother church of Alexanderwohl, was composed of Mennonites who settled near Schwetz and Culm on the Vistula River.

Aylmer, Ontario

The Mennonites were Canadian citizens who had moved to Mexico from Manitoba and Saskatchewan during the first half of the 20th century.

German Evangelical Church Confederation

Besides the smaller Protestant denominations of the Mennonites, Baptists and Methodists, which were organised crossing state borders along denominational lines, there were 29 (later 28) church bodies organised according to the territorial borders of German states or Prussian provinces.

Große Freiheit

The street was named in 1610 after the fact that Count Ernest of Schaumburg and Holstein-Pinneberg had granted religious freedom to non-Lutherans such as Mennonites and Roman Catholics to practice their faith here and commercial freedom for handcrafters not enrolled in the else compelling guilds.

Loyalism

This migration also included Native American loyalists such as Mohawk leader Joseph Brant, the "Black Loyalists" – former slaves who had joined the British cause in exchange for their freedom, and Anabaptist loyalists (Mennonites).

Pennsylvania Dutch

After the American Revolution, John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, invited pacifists from the former American Colonies, including Mennonites and German Baptist Brethren to settle in British North American territory on the promise of exemption from military service and the swearing of judicial oaths.

Swiss Mennonite Conference

Many Amish Mennonites in America can be traced to the areas of Thun and Schwarzenburg in Canton Bern.

U.S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches

Mennonite Brethren were among the migration of Mennonites from Russia to North America between 1874 and 1880, settling mainly in Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and South Dakota.

Vistula delta Mennonites

In the liberation wars of 1813, some young Mennonites were prepared to join the forces against Napoleon.

Zuiderhofje

This is why the Dutch Mennonites don't call themselves Mennonites, but Doopsgezind, or Anabaptist.


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