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The Seventh-day Adventist Church had its roots in the Millerite movement of the 1830s to the 1840s, during the period of the Second Great Awakening, and was officially founded in 1863. Prominent figures in the early church included Hiram Edson , Ellen G. White , her husband James Springer White , Joseph Bates , and J. N. Andrews .
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is the largest of several Adventist groups which arose from the Millerite movement of the 1840s in upstate New York, [17] a phase of the Second Great Awakening. [18] William Miller predicted on the basis of Daniel 8:14–16 [ 19 ] and the " day-year principle " that Jesus Christ would return to Earth between the ...
The Seventh-day Adventist Church had its roots in the Millerite movement of the 1830s and 1840s, during the period of the Second Great Awakening, and was officially founded in 1863. Prominent figures in the early church included Hiram Edson , James Springer White and his wife Ellen G. White , Joseph Bates , and J. N. Andrews .
Ellen Gould White (née Harmon; November 26, 1827 – July 16, 1915) was an American author and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.Along with other Adventist leaders, such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, she was influential within a small group of early Adventists who formed what became known as the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church, founded in 1863, had over 19,500,000 baptized members (not counting children of members) worldwide as of June 2016. [8] It is best known for its teaching that Saturday, the seventh day of the week, is the Sabbath and is the appropriate day for worship.
G. G. Rupert (1847–1922) – former American Seventh-day Adventist minister who founded Independent Church of God Paul Rusesabagina – internationally honored for saving 1,268 civilians during the Rwandan genocide ; the subject of 2004 film Hotel Rwanda ; describes himself as a "lapsed Adventist" in his autobiography
James Springer White (August 4, 1821 – August 6, 1881), also known as Elder White, was a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the husband of Ellen G. White.
Joseph Bates (8 July 1792 – 19 March 1872) was an American seaman and revivalist minister.He was a co-founder and developer of Sabbatarian Adventism, whose followers would later establish the Seventh-day Adventist Church.