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The Free Methodist Church (FMC) is a Methodist Christian denomination within the holiness movement, based in the United States. It is evangelical in nature and is Wesleyan–Arminian in theology. [5] The Free Methodist Church has members in over 100 countries, with 62,516 members in the United States and 1,547,820 members worldwide. [6]
United Methodist Free Churches, sometimes called Free Methodists, was an English Nonconformist denomination in the last half of the 19th century. It was formed in 1857 by the amalgamation of the Wesleyan Association (which had in 1836 largely absorbed the Protestant Methodists of 1828) and the Wesleyan Reformers (dating from 1849, when a number of Methodist ministers were expelled from the ...
Methodist Church Nigeria – 2 million [196] The Salvation Army – 1.8 million [197] Methodist Church of Southern Africa – 1.7 million [198] African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church – 1.4 million [199] Korean Methodist Church – 1.3 million [200] Free Methodist Church – 0.9 million [201] Christian Methodist Episcopal Church – 0.9 ...
Others, like Frazer Methodist Church in Montgomery, Alabama—once the largest UMC congregation in the U.S.—have already affiliated with the Free Methodist Church.
This is a list of Methodist denominations (or Methodist connexions). Those not affiliated with the World Methodist Council are marked with an asterisk (*). This list includes some united and uniting churches with Methodist participation.
The Methodist Church of Australasia was formed on 1 January 1902 when five Methodist denominations in Australia – the Wesleyan Methodist Church, the Primitive Methodists, the Bible Christian Church, the United Methodist Free and the Methodist New Connexion Churches merged. [295] [296] In polity it largely followed the Wesleyan Methodist Church.
The formation of the Reformed Free Methodist Church is a part of the history of Methodism in the United States; it was founded in 1932 as a result of a schism with the Free Methodist Church spearheaded by Samuel E. West. The Reformed Free Methodist Church was one of the first denominations in the conservative holiness movement. [2] [3]
In the United States, numerous Methodist churches are listed on the National Register of Historic Places [1] and on state and local historic registers, many reflecting the values of plainness, of Gothic architecture, of simple adornment. The Greek Revival style is also simple and came to be adopted for numerous American Methodist churches.