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  2. Seventh-day Adventist Church - Wikipedia

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    The Seventh-day Adventist Church is as of 2016 "one of the fastest-growing and most widespread churches worldwide", [7] with a worldwide baptized membership of over 22 million people. As of May 2007 [update] , it was the twelfth-largest Protestant religious body in the world and the sixth-largest highly international religious body.

  3. History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church - Wikipedia

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    In 1860, the fledgling movement finally settled on the name, Seventh-day Adventist, representative of the church's distinguishing beliefs. Three years later, on May 21, 1863, the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists was formed and the movement became an official organization.

  4. Adventism - Wikipedia

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    The Seventh-day Adventist Church, founded in 1863, had over 19,500,000 baptized members (not counting children of members) worldwide as of June 2016. [8] It is best known for its teaching that Saturday, the seventh day of the week, is the Sabbath and is the appropriate day for worship. However, the second coming of Jesus Christ, along with ...

  5. General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists - Wikipedia

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    The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists [1] [2] is the governing organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.Its headquarters is located in Silver Spring, Maryland and oversees the church in directing its various divisions and leadership, as well as doctrinal matters.

  6. History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 19 December 2020, at 12:50 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  7. Joseph Bates (Adventist) - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Bates (8 July 1792 – 19 March 1872) was an American seaman and revivalist minister.He was a co-founder and developer of Sabbatarian Adventism, whose followers would later establish the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

  8. Seventh-day Adventist theology - Wikipedia

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    Seventh-day Adventist theology has undergone development since the beginning of the movement. These developments have been associated with significant events, such as the Great Disappointment , the 1888 Minneapolis General Conference and discussions with evangelicals in the middle of the 20th century which prompted the publication of Seventh ...

  9. J. N. Andrews - Wikipedia

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    John Nevins Andrews (July 22, 1829 – October 21, 1883) was a Seventh-day Adventist minister, the first official Seventh-day Adventist missionary, writer, editor, and scholar. Andrews University (Michigan, USA), a university owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist church, is named after him.