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  2. Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Wikipedia

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    The 1844 dispute led Methodists in the South to break off and form a separate denomination, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MEC,S). Delegates from the southern conferences met at a Convention at the Fourth Street Church in Louisville, Kentucky, May 1–19, 1845, and organized the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

  3. Methodist Episcopal Church - Wikipedia

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    The Schism in the Methodist Episcopal Church 1844: A Study of Slavery and Ecclesiastical Politics (The Alfred Press, 1923) Richey, Russell E. Early American Methodism (1991) Richey, Russell E. and Kenneth E. Rowe, eds. Rethinking Methodist History: A Bicentennial Historical Consultation (1985), historiographical essays by scholars

  4. James Osgood Andrew - Wikipedia

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    James Osgood Andrew (May 3, 1794 – March 2, 1871) was elected in 1832 an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After the split within the church in 1844, he continued as a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

  5. History of Methodism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The History of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church 1870-2009 (Wyndham Hall Press, 2011) 304pp; Stevens, Abel. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (1884) online; Stowell, Daniel W. Rebuilding Zion: The Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863-1877 Oxford University Press, 1998. Stroupe, Henry Smith.

  6. Methodist Church (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The Methodist Church was the official name adopted by the Methodist denomination formed in the United States by the reunion on May 10, 1939, of the northern and southern factions of the Methodist Episcopal Church along with the earlier separated Methodist Protestant Church of 1828. [1] The Methodist Episcopal Church had split in 1844 over the ...

  7. Thomas Methodist Episcopal Chapel - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Methodist Episcopal Chapel, also known as Thomas Chapel and Thomas Chapel United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at Thaxton, Bedford County, Virginia. It was built in 1844, and is a small, rectangular-plan, one-story, one-room, brick structure in a vernacular Greek Revival style. It measures 30 feet ...

  8. Stephen Mason Merrill - Wikipedia

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    A year after his marriage (1849) at 24 years of age, Merrill was ordained a deacon in the Methodist Episcopal Church, North (In 1844 the Methodist Episcopal Church had split along geographical lines because of slavery and slave-holding) From 1844 to 1848, Methodism declined in membership from over one million to nearly half that number and this ...

  9. John Early (bishop) - Wikipedia

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    Methodist Episcopal Bishops appointed John Early to a Committee that developed a Plan of Separation in 1844 as the denomination split over abolition. The following year "delegates of the several conferences of the Methodist Episcopal church in slaveholding states" elected Early President pro tempore at inaugural convening of what would become ...