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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.
William S. Plumer was born to William and Catharine Plumer (née McAlester) [1] in Greersburg, present day Darlington, Pennsylvania, [2] on July 26, 1802. He graduated from Washington College (now Washington and Lee University in Virginia) in 1825, received his religious education at Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey, and was ordained in the Presbyterian Church.
Jacob Albright (also spelled Jakob Albrecht; May 1, 1759 – May 18, 1808) was an American Christian leader, founder of Albright's People (Die Albrechtsleute) which was officially named the Evangelical Association (Evangelische Gemeinschaft) in 1816.
African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church and Connection, 1813; African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1816; Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, 1870; National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., 1880; Original Church of God or Sanctified Church, 1890s; Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A., 1896; Church of God in Christ, 1897; African ...
Righteous Discontent: The Woman's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 (Harvard UP, 1993) Hill, Samuel, et al. Encyclopedia of Religion in the South (2005), comprehensive coverage; Hutchison William R. Errand to the World: American Protestant Thought and Foreign Missions. (1987).
In the 1950s and 1960s an ecumenical spirit emerged in many churches in the United States, leading to a conciliar movement known in some circles as Conciliarity. A product of this movement was the Consultation on Church Union (COCU). The COCU disbanded formally in 2002 but moved into the Churches Uniting in Christ movement. [15]
In 1787, Richard Allen and his colleagues in Philadelphia broke away from the Methodist Church and in 1815 founded the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, which, along with independent black Baptist congregations, flourished as the century progressed. By 1846, the AME Church, which began with eight clergy and five churches, had grown to ...
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.