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By 1889, the United Brethren had grown to over 200,000 members with six bishops. In that same year they experienced a division. Denominational leaders desired to make three changes: to give local conferences proportional representation at the General Conference; to allow laymen to serve as delegates to General Conference; and to allow United Brethren members to hold membership in secret societies.
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 ...
Church of the United Brethren in Christ, an evangelical Christian denomination based in Huntington, Indiana, organized formally in 1800 and including some but not all churches using United Brethren term previously; Church of the United Brethren in Christ (New Constitution), a historical part of the Church of the United Brethren which eventually ...
Philip William Otterbein (June 3, 1726 – November 17, 1813) was an American clergyman. He was the founder of the United Brethren in Christ, which merged with the Evangelical Church in 1946 to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church.
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.
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
United Brethren Church (West Akron, South Dakota), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Union County, South Dakota Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title United Brethren Church .