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The Christian Congregation is an international non-denominational fellowship of assemblies with roots in the Italian Pentecostal revival in Chicago, which began in 1907. [1] [2] [3] It can be found, for example, in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, the United States, Mozambique, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.
Elder Lucy Smith (1874–1952), also known as Lucy Turner Smith, was an African-American Pentecostal pastor and faith healer, who founded All Nations Pentecostal Church in Chicago, Illinois. Her healing ministry attracted large numbers of followers and her church grew to have 3,000 members.
In a move criticized by Parham, [19] his Apostolic Faith Movement merged with other Pentecostal groups in 1914 to form the General Council of the Assemblies of God in the United States of America. [40] Today, the worldwide Assemblies of God is the largest Pentecostal denomination. In 1916, the fourth general council of Assemblies of God met in ...
The pastor of a PCG church in Harlan County, Kentucky (1946). First called the Pentecostal Assemblies of USA, the PCG was formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1919 by a group of Pentecostal ministers who had chosen not to affiliate with the Assemblies of God and several who had left that organization after it adopted a doctrinal statement in 1916. [2]
The other major international Pentecostal denominations are the Apostolic Church with 15,000,000 members, [218] the Church of God (Cleveland) with 36,000 churches and 7,000,000 members, [219] The Foursquare Church with 67,500 churches and 8,800,000 members, [220] and the United Pentecostal Church International with 45,521 church and 5,800,000 ...
Durham was a mentor to a whole generation of Pentecostal leaders: Louis Francescon, who preached among Italians in North America, Argentina, Brazil, and Italy; F.A. Sandgren, a pioneer among Scandinavians in the Midwest, one of them Daniel Berg, a Swedish Pentecostal missionary in Brazil; A.D. Urshan, a leader in the Persian, Assyrian, and Oneness Pentecostalisms; Andrew H. Argue, pastor in ...
Numbering 169 million adherents worldwide, Pentecostals and non-denominational evangelicals comprise a significant part of the Christian church, outnumbering more widely recognised groups such as the Baptists (105 million), Lutherans (87 million), Anglicans (77 million), Reformed Churches, i.e. Calvinists, Presbyterians and Congregationalists ...
Joseph D. Mattsson-Boze (February 7, 1905 – January 22, 1989) was a Swedish-American minister and pastor of Chicago's Philadelphia Church from 1933 to 1958, with the exception of 1939–1941 when he pastored the Rock Church in New York.