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From: Jabe Fincher <>
Subject: Re: Methodist (Episcopal) Church
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 09:18:53 -0500
References: <Law12-F70A8rUa4nTNL00026774@hotmail.com>


Hello,
Yes and no. The United Methodist Church is a concoction of churches
fromed in 1968 between the Methodist Church and the United Evangelical
Brethren. The Methodist Church was formed in 1939 when the Methodist
Protestant Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South united.--Most the MEC, South, were in the south.
The split that caused the distinction between MEC and MECS happened
around 1840-1850 over the slavery issue.
HTH
Jabe Fincher

myra reidy wrote:
> A posting was made containing the statement below.
>
> "The Free Methodist is a
> denomination that seperated from the early Methodist (Episcopal) Church."
>
> Is the United Methodist Church the same as the Methodist-Episcopal
> Church? Forgive my ignorance. One of my g,g,g,grandfathers help to
> start a Methodist-Espiscopal Church--this is documented in local
> history. I am trying to find out more about my ancestors.
>
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--
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

Rev. Jabe Fincher
Stockton Charge of the UMC

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