Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Overview
- This article is about the former denomination. For individual churches of the same name, see Methodist Episcopal Church, South (disambiguation)Methodist Episcopal Church, South (disambiguation)Methodist Episcopal Church, South is a former religious denomination.Methodist Episcopal Church, South or Methodist Episcopal Church South may also refer to:...
The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, or 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
Methodist Episcopal Church
The Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes referred to as the M.E. Church, was a development of the first expression of Methodism in the United States. It officially began at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784, with Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke as the first bishops. Through a series of...
which had been brewing over several years until it came out into the open at a conference held in Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
, in 1844.
