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The Church of the United Brethren in Christ is an evangelical Christian denomination with churches in 17 countries. It is Protestant, with an episcopal structure and Arminian theology, with roots in the Mennonite and German Reformed communities of 18th-century Pennsylvania, as well as close ties to Methodism.
The Church of the United Brethren in Christ (New Constitution) was a Protestant Christian denomination with Arminian theology, roots in the Mennonite and German Reformed communities, and close ties to Methodism that formed in 1889 by a majority of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ when that denomination (of a similar tradition) amended the church constitution to give local ...
The United Brethren Church claims this organization in 1800 as the first denomination to actually begin in the United States. The first delegated general conference met at Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania , in 1815, and adopted a confession of faith (similar to one written by Otterbein in 1789), rules of order and a book of discipline, which were ...
United Brethren in Christ may refer to: Church of the United Brethren in Christ (Old Constitution) Church of the United Brethren in Christ (New Constitution) Church of the United Brethren in Christ, the evangelical Christian denomination; Or a specific church building United Brethren in Christ (Cincinnati, Ohio), a historic church building
Americans who are (or were) members of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, either the denomination still in existence or the (New Constitution) part that merged in 1946 with The Evangelical Church.
Persons elected Bishop of the Christian denomination known as the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, including the present denomination as well as the (New Constitution) Church that united with The Evangelical Church in 1922.
The United Brethren in Christ Church, also known as "Five Mile Chapel", is a historic church building located southeast of Cincinnati in Anderson Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. Built in 1844, [ 2 ] it is a stone building with a stone foundation and a slate roof. [ 3 ]
By 1881, the leadership of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ was becoming more liberal. Milton Wright, a staunch conservative, failed to be re-elected to his Bishop's post. The Wrights moved to Richmond, Indiana, where Milton served a circuit preacher once again. He served as presiding elder in the White River conference from 1881 to ...