Divisions and Reunions in North American Methodism


Organization of Wesleyan Methodism [U.K.]

1773 First Wesleyan Conference in America [Church of England]

^1784 Methodist Episcopal Church

--1796 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church...

--1869 Zion Union Apostolic Church + [died 1874]

1882 Reformed Zion Union Apostolic Church...

--1800 Church of the United Bretheren in Christ ~(United Bretheren, USA) ~(1946 Evangelical United Bretheren Church) ~(1968 The United Methodist Church)

--1805 Union Church of Africans

--1850 African Union Church~(1952, Union Church of Africans) *1852 Union American Methodist Episcopal Church

--1807 The Evangelical Association ~(1894 -- United Evangelical Church) ~(1922 The Evangelical Church) ~(1946 Evangelical United Bretheren Church) ~(1968 The United Methodist Church)

--1814 Reformed Methodist Church...

--1816 African Methodist Episcopal Church

--1885 Reformed Methodist Union Episcopal Church...

--1907 Independent African Methodist Episcopal Church...

--1828 Methodist Protestant Church ~(1939 The Methodist Church...)

--1840 Colored Methodist Protestant Church...

--1866 1st Colored Methodist Protestant Church ~(1866 African Union Church) *African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church, Incorporated...

--1843 Wesleyan Methodist Church of America ~(1968 Pilgrim Holiness Church) *The Wesleyan Church ...

--1843 Methodist Episcopal Church, South ~(1939 The Methodist Church)

--1852 Congregational Methodist Church of the USA *First Congregational Methodist Church of North America...

--1881 New Congregational Methodist Church...

--1850? Republican Methodist Church+ --1852 Congregational Methodist Church...

--1950 Cumberland Methodist Church [Tennessee]...

--1860 Free Methodist Church of North America...

--1870 Colored Methodist Episcopal Church *1954 Christian Methodist Episcopal Church...

>1884 Brittish Methodism *The Methodist Church, Canada ~(1925 United Church of Canada...)

--1894 Metropolitan Church Association...

--1900 Lumber River Mission Conference of the Holiness Methodist Church [North Carolina] *Lumber River Annual Conference of the Holiness Methodist Church...

--1907 Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene *1918 Church of the Nazarene...

--1916 Reformed New Congregational Methodist Church...

^1920 Holiness Methodist Church [formerly of the Northwestern Holiness Association]...

1925 Primitive Methodist Church, USA [British in origin]...

--1932 Apostolic Methodist Church [Florida]... *1939 The Methodist Church ~(Methodist Episcopal Church, South & Methodist Protestant Church)

--1939 Southern Methodist Church [from remnant of Methodist Episcopal Church, South]...

--1939 People’s Methodist Church ~(1962 Evangelical Methodist Church...)

--1942 Independent Fundamental Methodist Church *1948 Fundamental Methodist Church...

--1946 The Evangelical Methodist Church... ~(1960 Evangel Church)

^1959 Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches...

*1968 The United Methodist Church... ~(Evangelical United Bretheren Church)


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Key:
-- = Split
...= denomination still operating
*= rename
~( = merger with )
^ = Beginning
>= Foreign influence
+ = denomination has died
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Thanks to the late Dr. Robert Wilson, of Duke University, "The Handbook of Denominations" and the "Yearbook of North American Churches".


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