Wesleyan Church
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| Classification | Protestant |
| Orientation | Holiness |
| Polity | Connexionalism |
| Associations | Christian Holiness Partnership, National Association of Evangelicals, World Methodist Council |
| Region | Worldwide |
| Headquarters | Fishers, Indiana |
| Founder | Orange Scott |
| Origin | 1843 Utica, New York |
| Separated from | Methodist Episcopal Church |
| Congregations | 5,800 (1,731 North America) |
| Members | worldwide: 516,203 (231,339 North America) |
| Official website | www |
The Wesleyan Church is a holiness Protestant Christian denomination in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, South Africa, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Indonesia, Asia and Australia. The Church is part of the holiness movement and has roots in the teachings of John Wesley. It is Wesleyan and Arminian in doctrine.
Near the end of 2014, the Wesleyan Church had grown to an average of 516,203 adherents weekly in around 5,800 churches worldwide and is active in almost 100 nations. In North America alone there were 146,996 members in 1,700 congregations, with an average worship attendance of 231,339. The growing statistics for 2015 reveals the church is now around 1 million strong worldwide.
Wesleyan Life is the official publication. Global Partners is the official nonprofit missions organization. The Wesleyan Church world headquarters are in Fishers, Indiana.
The Wesleyan Methodist Connection was officially formed in 1843 at an organizing conference in Utica, New York, by a group of ministers and laymen splitting from the Methodist Episcopal Church. The split was primarily over their objections to slavery, though they had secondary issues as well. Orange Scott presided as the meeting formed a federation of churches at first calling themselves the Wesleyan Methodist Connection, a name chosen to emphasize the primacy of the local church, and the intended nature of the denomination as an association of churches. Other leaders at the organizing conference were LaRoy Sunderland, who had been tried and defrocked for his antislavery writings, Lucious C. Matlack, and Luther Lee, a minister who later operated an Underground Railroad station in Syracuse, New York.
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