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The Mennonite World Conference was founded at the first conference in Basel, Switzerland, in 1925 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Anabaptism. [32]
By 1544, the term Mennonite or Mennist was used in a letter to refer to the Dutch Anabaptists. [10] Twenty-five years after his renunciation of Catholicism, Menno died on 31 January 1561 at Wüstenfelde, Holstein, and was buried in his garden. [3] He was married to a woman named Gertrude, and they had at least three children, two daughters and ...
Jacob Gottschalk in Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online Jacob's Account of Mennonites in America p. 185 in William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania by William I. Hull Letter to Amsterdam p. 265 in History of Old Germantown by Dr. Naaman H. Keyser, C. Henry Kain, John Palmer Garber, Horace F. McCann, Germantown ...
The Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, also called Holdeman Mennonite, is a Christian Church of Anabaptist heritage. Its formation started in 1859 under its first leader, a self-described prophet named John Holdeman (1832–1900), who was a baptized Mennonite . [ 1 ]
The Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) is an Anabaptist Christian denomination in the United States. Although the organization is a recent 2002 merger of the Mennonite Church and the General Conference Mennonite Church, the body has roots in the Radical Reformation of the 16th century.
John Holdeman (January 31, 1832 - March 10, 1900) was an American self-described prophet and the founder of the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, also known as the Holdeman Mennonite Church. [1] [2] [3] This is a plain dress and theologically conservative Mennonite denomination that has 27,000 members, mostly in the United States and Canada ...
A History of the Mennonite Brethren Church: Pilgrims and Pioneers. Fresno, California: Board of Christian Literature, General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. Smith, C. Henry (1981). Smith's Story of the Mennonites. Revised and expanded by Cornelius Krahn. Newton, Kansas: Faith and Life Press. pp. 277– 282. ISBN 0-87303-069-9.
The Mennonite movement was founded by Menno Simons, a Frisian, Roman Catholic priest who left the Church in 1536 and became a leader within the Anabaptist movement. The Low Countries regions of Friesland and Flanders, as well as Eastern Frisia and Holstein, became a center of the Mennonites.