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5 unusual facts about Methodist Episcopal Church


Early American Methodist newspapers

The Nashville Christian Advocate was a weekly newspaper, founded in 1836, that served as the official organ and preeminent weekly of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Orlando Street Railway

One branch ran from the Church Street Station of the South Florida Railroad east on Church Street across Orange Avenue to Magnolia Avenue (then Main Street), then south on Main Street to a Methodist Episcopal church, and another branch ran east on Central Avenue from Orange Avenue.

The Ladies' Repository

The Ladies' Repository was a monthly periodical based in Cincinnati and produced by members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

William Clyde Martin

William Clyde Martin (July 28, 1893–August 30, 1984) was a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church.

Martin was elected a delegate to the Methodist Episcopal Church South General Conference in 1938.


Agnes Ozman

Her parents were farmers, and since childhood, Agnes and her six siblings attended the Methodist Episcopal Church in Nebraska, Wisconsin.

Francis Burns

He was the first Missionary Bishop, and the first African-American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (elected in 1858).

Genesee Wesleyan Seminary

The Genesee Wesleyan Seminary (I) was founded in 1831 by the Genesee Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Henry Appenzeller

He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lancaster at his age of twenty- one, three years after his conversion.

Henry Bidleman Bascom

Henry Bascom joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in Western Pennsylvania in 1811 after his family migrated to the frontier area.

Heron Lake, Minnesota

Walter Mondale, Vice-President of the United States under Jimmy Carter (1977–1981) and the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 1984, attended Heron Lake Public High School and lived in the Methodist Episcopal Church parsonage (still present in the town) for three years prior to 1946.

Kwansei Gakuin University

Kwansei Gakuin was founded in 1889 in Kobe, Japan by Dr. Walter Russell Lambuth (later Bishop), a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MEC-S), USA, with the aim of training missionaries and educating young people based on the principals of Christianity.

Lewis R. Fiske

In 1863, Fiske entered the ministry for the Methodist Episcopal Church, served as pastor of the Methodist Episcopal in Jackson, 1863–66; of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church in Detroit, 1866–69; and of the First Methodist Church in Ann Arbor, 1869–72.

Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church

On October 12, 1794, Reverend Robert Blackwell announced that the congregation was received in full fellowship in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mount Albion Cemetery

Gilbert De La Matyr, (1825–1892), Methodist Episcopal Church elder who served a single term as U.S. Representative from Indiana after the Civil War.

Pittman Center, Tennessee

Later that year, the Methodist Episcopal Church endorsed Burnett's plan at its annual meeting, and with the help of Reverend Eli Pittman of Elmira, New York, Burnett secured $15,000 for the project.

Shiloh, Illinois

It was organized by the Rev. William McKendree, Presiding Elder of the Western Conference and 4th Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Stephen Mason Merrill

Stephen Mason Merrill (16 September 1825 in Mount Pleasant, Ohio – 12 November 1905 in Keyport, New York) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1872.

Thomas Osgood Summers

In 1875, he served as Professor of Systematic Theology at Vanderbilt University, a newly established university in Nashville which was started as a Methodist institution by Holland Nimmons McTyeire (1824-1889), Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

West Woods Methodist Episcopal Church

West Woods Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at Gumboro, Sussex County, Delaware.

William Walter Peele

William Walter Peele was elected a bishop of the M.E. Church, S. at the 1938 General Conference meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, one of eight bishops elected at that final General Conference of this denomination.


see also

Albert Boynton Storms

During this time, he served in numerous pastorates in Franklin, Michigan, Hudson, Michigan, Harper Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church and Gass Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church in Detroit.

Beverly Waugh

At the age of fifteen, he was converted to the Christian faith and became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Alexandria, Virginia.

Bishop Moore

David Hastings Moore (1838–1915), Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Arthur James Moore, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, the Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church

Bishop Turner

Henry McNeal Turner (1833-1915), a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

Charles Cowman

In the late 1890s, Cowman met and befriended Juji Nakada at his church, Grace Methodist Episcopal Church.

Edwin Hughes

Edwin Holt Hughes (1866–1950), American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Edwin Lee

Edwin Ferdinand Lee (1884–1948), American Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and The Methodist Church

Francis Burns

The 1856 General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church made provision for the first time for the election and consecration of a Missionary Bishop (for the African work).

George Bickley

George Harvey Bickley, American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

George Pierce

George Foster Pierce (1811–1884), American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Houston Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Houston Methodist Episcopal Church, South is a historic church on AR 60 on the southwest side, near the junction with AR 216 in Houston, Arkansas.

Imboden Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Imboden Methodist Episcopal Church, South is a historic church at 113 Main Street in Imboden, Arkansas.

Jamal Harrison Bryant

He is the son of Bishop John Richard Bryant, Senior Bishop and Presiding Prelate of the Fourth Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

James Andrew

James Osgood Andrew (1794–1871), American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South

John Denton

John B. Denton, Methodist Episcopal Church minister, lawyer, soldier, and political candidate

John Emery

John Emory (1789–1835), American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Manchester United Methodist Church

Manchester United Methodist Church (formerly Manchester Methodist Episcopal Church, abbreviated Manchester UMC or simply MUMC) is a United Methodist megachurch in Manchester, Missouri.

Marvin Vincent

Vincent graduated from Columbia University in 1851, taught in the Columbia Grammar School, was professor of classics in the Troy Methodist University from 1858 to 1862; then acting pastor of the Pacific Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Brooklyn from 1862 to 1863; and pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Troy, New York, from 1863 to 1873.

Methodist Church of Canada

It now included all Canadian Methodists with the exception of several very small groups: the British Methodist Episcopal Church (a development of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serving chiefly people of colour), two German-speaking bodies (the Evangelical Association and the United Brethren in Christ), and the Free Methodist Church (a body that had begun in New York State in 1860 and extended itself into Canada.)

Mount Tabor, New Jersey

On March 17, 1869, the incorporation of the "Camp Meeting Association of the Newark Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church" came about by virtue of the passage of New Jersey Chapter Law 185 of the Legislative Session of 1869, enacted into law by the both the New Jersey Senate and the New Jersey General Assembly.

Palmyra Methodist Episcopal Church

Palmyra Methodist Episcopal Church is an historic structure located in rural Warren County, Iowa, United States.

Paul Stewart

Paul A.G. Stewart (born 1941), bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

Robert Williams Daniel

On December 6, 1923, Daniel married Mrs. Margery Durant Campbell, daughter of William C. Durant, an automobile manufacturer in the Halsey Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey.

Rufus P. Spalding

Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska act in 1854, anti-slavery politicians from various parties met in the Town Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio to form what became the Fusion Party.

Stephen Merrill

Stephen Mason Merrill (1825–1905), American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Thoburn

Isabella Thoburn (1840–1901), American Christian missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in North India

James Mills Thoburn (1836–1922), American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church known for his missionary work in India

Washington Street United Methodist Church

In 1829 at the urging of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a prominent planter, Capers founded the Methodist Episcopal Church’s mission to slaves and served as the mission’s first superintendent.

William Clyde Martin

Upon the reunion of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Methodist Protestant Church in 1939, Bishop Martin was assigned the Kansas-Nebraska Episcopal Area.