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He volunteered for missionary work in Pennsylvania, and arrived in New York on July 27, 1752. He served several German speaking parishes near the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. In 1767 or 1768, Otterbein, currently serving a Reformed church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was present at a worship service in Long's Barn, a nearby barn.
The Evangelical Church was founded in 1800 by Jacob Albright (1759–1808), a German-speaking Christian native of the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, area, influenced by John Wesley and the Methodist Episcopal Church and by followers of Philip William Otterbein. In 1790, several of his children died of dysentery.
Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A., 1896; Church of God in Christ, 1897; African Orthodox Church, 1921; Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, 1924; Church of Universal Triumph, Dominion of God, 1944; Black theology, 1966; Native American Church, 1800 (19th century) [5] Reformed Mennonites, 1812; Restoration Movement, 1800s
He founded his final church here in 1740 and is buried beneath it. The church was named in his honor. John Phillip Boehm (1683–1749) was a school teacher and an early leader in the German Reformed Church (now the Reformed Church in the United States ), first as a lay reader and later as an ordained minister.
The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, Churches of Christ (2004) Frey, Sylvia R. "The Visible Church: Historiography of African American Religion since Raboteau," Slavery and Abolition, Jan 2008, Vol. 29 Issue 1, pp 83–110; Hatch, Nathan O.
The first of the series of unions was at a synod in Idstein to form the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau in August 1817, commemorated in naming the church of Idstein Unionskirche one hundred years later. [13] [14] Around the world, each united or uniting church comprises a different mix of predecessor Protestant denominations. [1]
William Penn founded Pennsylvania. The Religious Society of Friends formed in England in 1652 around leader George Fox. Recently, church historians have debated whether Quakers may be regarded as radical Puritans since the Quakers carry to extremes many Puritan convictions.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts founded. [23] [24] Arch Street Friends Meeting House built. 1806 – U.S. Supreme Court decides Commonwealth v. Pullis, criminalizing labor strikes. [15] 1807 – First African Presbyterian Church founded. [16] 1809 – First African Baptist Church founded. [16] 1810 Columbian Garden opens on Market Street ...