The United Evangelical Church is a splinter group from the

Evangelical Association The Evangelical Church or Evangelical Association, also known in the early 1800s as the Albright Brethren, was a "body of American Christians chiefly of German descent", Arminian in doctrine and theology; in its form of church government, Methodi ...

History

It was formed in 1891 when some members of the

left to form the new church. The schism was caused by the autocratic administration of Bishop

John Jacob Esher Bishop John Jacob Esher (December 11, 1823 - April 16, 1901) was bishop of the Evangelical Association in Chicago, Illinois. In 1890-1891 he presided over a schism in the Evangelical Church and his followers were dubbed Esherites and they opposed ...

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. His faction was known as the Esherites and he was challenged by The Dubsites that followed Bishop Bowman. Thirty-one years later the two groups reunited in

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and renamed themselves "The Evangelical Church." (Those congregations who chose not to re-unite formed a body called the Evangelical Congregational Church.) In 1946, the Evangelical Church merged with the United Brethren in Christ at a meeting in

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to form the

Evangelical United Brethren Church The Evangelical United Brethren Church (EUB) was a North American Protestant church from 1946 to 1968. It was formed by the merger of the Evangelical Church (formerly the Evangelical Association, founded by Jacob Albright) and the Church of the ...

. This body, in turn, united with the American Methodist Church in 1968 to form the

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External links

Evangelical Congregational Church website
Former Christian denominations Religious organizations established in 1891 Evangelical United Brethren Church Evangelical denominations established in the 19th century Methodist denominations established in the 19th century United Methodist Church predecessor churches United Methodist Church 1891 establishments in the United States {{Methodist-stub

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