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The Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) is a large Wesleyan Methodist denomination, with local churches across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini, and a more limited presence in Mozambique. It is a member church of the World Methodist Council. The church is the largest mainline Protestant denomination in South Africa ...
Purity Nomthandazo Malinga (born 1958) is a South African Methodist bishop and the 100th Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA). [1] Malinga was ordained to the Christian ministry in 1988, the fourth woman to be ordained in her denomination.
This is a list of Methodist denominations (or Methodist connexions). Those not affiliated with the World Methodist Council are marked with an asterisk (*). This list includes some united and uniting churches with Methodist participation.
The United Methodist Church (UMC) ... international travel challenges, and escalating tensions within the UMC regarding its LGBT+ policies. ... (Africa, Asia, and South America) will respond after ...
The Central Methodist Church, also known as the Central Methodist Mission or Metropolitan Methodist Church, is a large and historically important Methodist church located on Greenmarket Square in Cape Town, South Africa. The church has played a significant role in the growth of Methodism in South Africa. In 1988, the Metropolitan Church merged ...
[233] [234] [235] The largest group was the Wesleyan Methodist Church, but there were a number of others that joined to form the Methodist Church of South Africa, later known as the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. [236] The Methodist Church of Southern Africa is the largest mainline Protestant denomination in South Africa – 7.3% of the ...
The United Methodist Church has about 5.4 million members in the United States, and about 4.6 million in Africa, Europe and the Philippines, according to church figures.
Seth Mokitimi was elected as president of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa at the annual Conference in October 1963., [3] [4] He was the first black minister to be elected as the leader of any major church denomination in South Africa. [5] This was just two years after Sharpeville, when apartheid was very much in the ascendancy in South ...