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The United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI) is a Oneness Pentecostal denomination headquartered in Weldon Spring, Missouri. [1] The United Pentecostal Church International was formed in 1945 by a merger of the former Pentecostal Church, Inc. and the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ .
Also, the list itself should not be considered comprehensive because there are many small denominations which are below 100,000 in membership, and individual churches which chose not to affiliate with other denominations.
This group met in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, to create an organization capable of issuing ministerial credentials named the General Assembly of the Apostolic Churches. The top officials of this new organization were D. C. O. Opperman and Howard A. Goss, formerly important leaders of the Assemblies of God. [5] Early Pentecostals were pacifists.
The organization named United Pentecostal Churches of Christ came into being during 1992, as a result of a meeting convened by Bishop Ellis and held on May 29, 1992. [ 1 ] At the first plenary assembly (August 22, 1992), Bishop Ellis was recognized as general overseer and president.
Refusing to accept the Council of Ephesus, the Church of the East, encompassing many Syriac speaking Christians in what was then the far East of the Empire, split off in 431 AD. A few decades later, in 451 AD, after the Council of Chalcedon, the group that later became known as the Oriental Orthodox Churches , encompassing many Coptic speaking ...
The provision may have been written broadly enough to allow more liberal congregations to leave the UMC because “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” could not officially be ordained or married ...
Churches that still want to leave the United Methodist Church as part of a splintering in the denomination no longer have a procedural way to do so, or at least with their property in tow.
United Pentecostal Church International (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Oneness Pentecostal denominations" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.