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The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant [8] denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism.In the 19th century, its main predecessor, the Methodist Episcopal Church, was a leader in evangelicalism.
The Methodist Protestant Church (MPC) is a Methodist denomination of Christianity that is based in the United States. It was formed in 1828 by former members of the Methodist Episcopal Church , being Wesleyan in doctrine and worship, but adopting congregational governance.
The list also includes the largest Adventist church (the Seventh-day Adventist Church), the largest Methodist church (the United Methodist Church) and the largest African initiated church (the Zion Christian Church) and the second largest Pentecostal denomination in the world, The Pentecostal Mission (TPM) or (New Testament Church/Universal ...
The United Methodist Church (UMC) has historically regarded itself as a “big tent” denomination. But as member churches across the United States vote to disaffiliate from the UMC, the ...
In 1947, the Wesleyan Methodist Church in India merged with Presbyterians, Anglicans and other Protestant churches to form the Church of South India while the American Methodist Church remained affiliated as the Methodist Church in Southern Asia (MCSA) to the mother church in the USA – the United Methodist Church until 1981, when by an ...
The United Methodist Church, which stripped out its bans and related social teachings over the past two weeks, is the last of the major mainline church bodies to go through this process.
United Church of Christ (UCC) is the sixth and has about 710,000 members in 2022. [25] Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (DOC) is the seventh and has about 278,000 members as of 2022. [26] The term 'mainline' has also been applied to Canadian Protestant churches that share common origins with their US counterparts [27] [28] such as the:
About a quarter of the denomination's churches left, or disaffiliated, from the United Methodist Church between 2019-2023 following disagreements over theology and church policy, including dealing ...