CHRONOLOGY: BREAKOFFS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH (1784)
1792: Republican Methodists (Virginia). Also called Christian Methodists, merged with Christian Church in 1805.
1807: Evangelical Methodists. Also called German Methodists (used German language), merged with Evangelical United Brethren in 1946. Evangelical United Brethren merged with the United Methodist Church in 1968.
1814: Reformed Methodists.
1816: African Methodist Episcopal (AME). Expanded rapidly in the South after 1865.
1821: African Methodist Episcopal Zion.
1824: Calvinistic Methodists. Organized in Remsen, Oneida, New York, also called Welsh Methodists; merged with Presbyterian Church in the USA in 1920.
1828: Methodist Episcopal South. Two breakoffs of their own: Congregational Methodist (Georgia, 1852); Colored Methodist Episcopal (1874).
c.1840: Primitive Methodists. Mostly British Isles immigrants.
1843: Weslayan Methodists. Breakoff group: service oriented Methodist New Connexion. The Salvation Army, introduced into the U.S. in 1879 with its first headquarters in Philadelphia, is a breakoff of the Methodist New Connexion.
1844: Methodist Protestant. One breakoff of their own: African Union Methodist Protestant (1866).
1860: Free Methodists. New York.
Based on Julia Pettee, List of Churches: Official Forms of the Names for Denominational Bodies (Chicago: American Library Association, 1948); Edwin Scott Gaustadt, Historical Atlas of Religions in America (New York: Harper & Row, 1962); and Frank S. Mead, Handbook of Denominations in the United States (New York: 1951). Book of Discipline, 1784-1984 (United Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, TN).
The United States is mostly welcoming to the proliferation of churches.This chart reflects some of the changes of just one church denomination. We could create a chart for each denomination and the divisions that have taken place over time. The movement to unify and merge was also important. The dates of some of these changes are also reflected in the chart.
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