United Methodist Church (Great Britain)

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The United Methodist Church in Great Britain was a Protestant denomination that existed in the early twentieth century. It was a relatively small grouping of British Methodism, formed in 1907 by the union of the United Methodist Free Churches with two other small groupings, the Bible Christian Church and the Methodist New Connexion.[1]

The United Methodists formed one of the three streams of Methodism then extant in Britain. In 1932 it merged with the Primitive Methodist Church and the Wesleyan Methodist Church to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain.[1]

The British United Methodist Church had no particular connection with the much larger United Methodist Church in the United States, other than the common heritage shared by all Methodist denominations; the American church did not take the name "United Methodist Church" until 1968[2].

References

  1. ^ a b Davies, R. E. (1985). Methodism (2nd ed.). Peterborough: Epworth Press. pp. 159–161. 
  2. ^ Davies, R. E. (1985). Methodism (2nd ed.). Peterborough: Epworth Press. pp. 143.