Methodist Episcopal Church, South

The Methodist Episcopal Church, South was the so-called "Southern Methodist Church" resulting from the split over the issue of slavery in the Methodist Episcopal Church which had been brewing over several years until it came out into the open at a conference held in Louisville, Kentucky in 1844. This body maintained its own polity until it merged with the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant Church to form the Methodist Church in 1939, which in turn later (1968) merged with the Evangelical United Brethren to form The United Methodist Church. Conservative Southern congregations dissenting from the merger formed the Southern Methodist Church in 1940.

Related Topics:
Methodist Episcopal Church - Louisville, Kentucky - 1844 - Methodist Protestant Church - Methodist Church - 1939 - 1968 - Evangelical United Brethren - United Methodist Church - Southern Methodist Church - 1940

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