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| Free Methodist Church | |
|---|---|
 Emblem of the Free Methodist Church USA | |
| Classification | Protestant |
| Orientation | Holiness |
| Polity | Modified episcopacy |
| Associations | Global Wesleyan Alliance; Christian Holiness Partnership; Christian Churches Together; Wesleyan Holiness Consortium; World Methodist Council; National Association of Evangelicals |
| Region | Worldwide: divided into 13 General Conferences |
| Founder | Benjamin Titus Roberts |
| Origin | 1860 Pekin, New York |
| Separated from | Methodist Episcopal Church |
| Separations | 1881 - Vanguard Mission[1] 1882 - Pentecost Bands[1] 1932 - Reformed Free Methodist Church[2] 1955 - United Holiness Church (now the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches)[3] 1963 - Evangelical Wesleyan Church[3] 1973 - Fellowship of Independent Methodist Churches[4] |
| Congregations | 856 in the United States (average congregation size: 77) |
| Members | 1,200,797 (68,356 in the United States) |
| Official website | fmcusa.org |
The Free Methodist Church (FMC) is a Methodist Christian denomination within the holiness movement, based in the United States. It is evangelical in nature and is Wesleyan–Arminian in theology.[5]
The Free Methodist Church has members in over 100 countries, with 62,516 members in the United States and 1,547,820 members worldwide.[6] The Light & Life Magazine is their official publication.[7] The Free Methodist Church World Ministries Center is in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- ^ a b Bundy, David; Hammond, Geordan; Han, David Sang-Ehil (March 4, 2022). Holiness and Pentecostal Movements: Intertwined Pasts, Presents, and Futures. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-09415-1.
Defections from the Methodist Episcopal Church were many; those from the Free Methodist Church included the Vanguard Mission (1881) and Pentecost Bands (1882).
- ^ Jones, Charles Edwin (1974). A guide to the study of the holiness movement. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810807037.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
Melton2009was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cooney, Dudley Levistone (2001). The Methodists in Ireland: A Short History. Columba Press. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-85607-335-6.
- ^ 2019 Book of Discipline. Free Methodist Church. 2019. p. 9.
- ^ "Free Methodist Church Official Website".
- ^ "Light + Life Magazine".
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