Christopher Hopper (1722–1802) was the
President of the Methodist Conference in
John Wesley
John Wesley (; 2 March 1791) was an English people, English cleric, Christian theology, theologian, and Evangelism, evangelist who was a leader of a Christian revival, revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The soci ...
's absence, at the
Bristol
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conference in 1780.
Life
Hopper was born in 1722 at Ryton,
Durham in the north of England.
[ He entered the Wesleyan ]itinerancy
An itinerant preacher (also known as an itinerant minister or evangelist or circuit rider) is a Christian evangelist who preaches the basic Christian redemption message while traveling around to different groups of people within a relatively shor ...
in 1748.[
Hopper became a member of the society at Low Spen, near Newcastle, after Wesley's visit there in July 1743.][ He had been a schoolmaster before becoming an itinerant.][ Hopper was Wesley's travelling companion in England, Wales and Scotland (being the first Methodist itinerant venturing north of the border).][
Hopper was an itinerant for forty-seven years and regularly corresponded with Wesley.][ Wesley appointed him 'Lord President of the North' in 1768 giving him jurisdiction over the Methodist Societies from Cumberland to Lincolnshire.][
Hopper wrote "''The plain man's epistle to every child of Adam''" in 1766.][
Hopper retired to Bolton in 1792, where he built a house next to the chapel, continuing to preach there.][
Hopper died at Bolton on 5 March 1802.][
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References
External links
A Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland
DMBI online
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1722 births
1802 deaths
Presidents of the Methodist Conference