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unusual facts about The Methodist Church


University United Methodist Church

The name of the church changed again in 1968, when the Evangelical United Brethren Church joined with The Methodist Church to form The United Methodist Church.


Edward Wendall Kelly

Edward Wendall Kelly (born 27 December 1880 in Mexia, Texas) was an American bishop of The Methodist Church, elected in 1944.

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.


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Benjamin Carl Unseld

Though mostly self-taught, he sang in the choir and accepted a position as organist at the Methodist Church in Columbia, Pennsylvania.

Bishop Moore

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

Branscomb

John Warren Branscomb (1905-1959), American Bishop of the Methodist Church

David Hallam

He has earned his living in public relations and in 2003 published his first book "Eliza Asbury" which chronicled the life of the mother of Francis Asbury, the first Bishop of the Methodist Church in the United States.

Domingo Marrero Navarro

His first pastorship was in 1930 at the Methodist Church of Garrochales, Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

Dudley's Chapel

Many of the prominent early leaders of the Methodist Church are known to have preached both at Dudley's including Francis Asbury, Thomas Coke, Richard Whatcoat, Jesse Lee, and Freeborn Garrettson.

Edwin Lee

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

Henry Ince

According to Gibraltarian Methodist tradition, the colony's first regular Methodist meeting place was Ince's old home on Prince Edward's Road – a claim which is made on a plaque that was originally mounted in the Methodist Church on Prince Edward's Road and is now in the modern Gibraltar Methodist Church on Main Street.

John Chew

Representatives of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Reverend Jonathan Gledhill, the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Singapore, the Most Reverend Monsignor Nicholas Chia, the Bishop of the Methodist Church in Singapore, Dr Robert M Solomon and Dr Ong Chit Chung, Member of Parliament of Jurong GRC were among those who were present at the occasion.

Lafayette Square, St. Louis

The tornado uprooted nearly all of the trees in the Park as well as the trees on Benton Place, damaged the fence, destroyed the bandstand, destroyed the Union Club and the Methodist church at Jefferson and Lafayette Avenues, crippled the Presbyterian and Methodist churches, tore the roof off the Unitarian church, and crippled or destroyed many homes on the Square.

Methodist Church of Great Britain

The movement which would become the Methodist Church began in the mid-18th century within the Church of England.

Methodist diaconal order

Unlike the position in the Roman Catholic Church, and formerly in the Church of England, in the Methodist Church the term deaconess simply means a female deacon, and is not a distinct from the male order.

Paul Cottancin

Cottacin designed the Methodist Church in Sidwell Street, Exeter, England, built between 1902 and 1907.

Paul Hardin, Jr.

He was Bishop of the Alabama-West Florida Annual Conference of the Methodist Church in 1963 when he joined seven other white clergymen to write the letter A Call For Unity, making a thinly veiled reference to Martin Luther King, Jr. King replied to this letter with his Letter from Birmingham Jail.

Samuel Stagg

He moved to Manila, the Philippine Islands in 1923, and became the pastor of the Central Church (on San Luis Street - now Kalaw Avenue, Malate, Manila), affiliated with the General Conference of the Methodist Church of America.

Shebbear College

Shebbear College is a co-educational Methodist independent day and boarding school located in Shebbear, Devon, 39 miles from the county seat of Exeter, in South West England and is one of a group of independent boarding schools that form part of the Methodist Church's involvement in education.

Thomas Crosby

In 1897 he was made chairman of the British Columbia Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada and left Lax Kw'alaams to take charge of the newly subdivided mission district covering Lowe Inlet, Bella Bella, and parts of Vancouver Island.

Universal Preservation Hall

Originally constructed for the Methodist church to host their annual regional meeting – the Hall has hosted such luminaries as William Jennings Bryan, Henry Ward Beecher, Frederick Douglass, Senator Edgar T. Brackett and President William Howard Taft amongst others.