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He was the first Pentecostal missionary to come to Ghana from the United Kingdom and was instrumental in the establishment of The Apostolic Church - Ghana. In the 1950s he founded the Church of Pentecost, [1] the church with the biggest denomination in Ghana and which has branches all over the world. He is considered a "pioneer of Ghanaian ...
The church has its origins in a British mission of Rev. James McKeown in Ghana in 1937. [1] In 1953, The Church was founded as Gold Coast Apostolistic Church. Upon the country's attainment of independence in 1957, the name changed to the Ghana Apostolic Church.
Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843–1919) and his Christian and Missionary Alliance (founded in 1887) was very influential in the early years of Pentecostalism, especially on the development of the Assemblies of God. Another early influence on Pentecostals was John Alexander Dowie (1847–1907) and his Christian Catholic Apostolic Church (founded ...
Apostolic Church – 15 million [2] Foursquare Church - 8.8 million [3] Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) - 7 million [4] Church of God in Christ - 6.5 million [5] Church of Pentecost – 3.9 million [6] Christian Congregation of Brazil – 2.8 million; The Pentecostal Mission – 2.5 million; International Pentecostal Holiness Church – 2 ...
Charles Fox Parham (June 4, 1873 – January 29, 1929) was an American preacher and evangelist.Together with William J. Seymour, Parham was one of the two central figures in the development and initial spread of early Pentecostalism, known as Holiness Pentecostalism.
William Joseph Seymour (May 2, 1870 – September 28, 1922) was a Holiness Pentecostal preacher who initiated the Azusa Street Revival, an influential event in the rise of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, particularly Holiness Pentecostalism.
The Pentecostal Assemblies of the World is the result of the merger of two Oneness Pentecostal bodies in the early years of the Pentecostal movement. The oldest body was founded in 1914 by a Oneness minister named J. J. Frazier. The church was centered on the West Coast and was the first to use the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World name. [5]
The International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC) or simply Pentecostal Holiness Church (PHC) is an international Holiness-Pentecostal Christian denomination founded in 1911 with the merger of two older denominations. [4]