There are other bodies that have been called the United Methodist Church

United Methodist Church (disambiguation)

United Methodist Church may refer to:Denominations:* United Methodist Church in the United States* United Methodist Church , which merged with other British Methodist denominations in 1932Individual churches:...

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The United Methodist Church in Great Britain

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

 was a Protestant denomination that existed in the early twentieth century. It was a relatively small grouping of British Methodism

Methodism

Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother...

, formed in 1907 by the union of the United Methodist Free Churches

United Methodist Free Churches

United Methodist Free Churches was an English nonconformist community which merged into the United Methodist Church in 1907. The organisation was itself formed in 1857 by the amalgamation of the Wesleyan Association and the Wesleyan Reformers United Methodist Free Churches was an English...

 with two other small groupings, the Bible Christian Church

Bible Christian Church

The Bible Christian Church was a Methodist denomination founded by William O’Bryan, a Wesleyan Methodist local preacher, on 18 October 1815 in North Cornwall, with the first society, just 22 members, meeting at Lake Farm in Shebbear, Devon.-Early history:...

 and the Methodist New Connexion

Methodist New Connexion

Methodist New Connexion was a Protestant nonconformist church, also known as the Kilhamite Methodists. It was formed in 1797 by secession from the Wesleyan Methodists, and merged in 1907 with the Bible Christian Church and the United Methodist Free Churches to form the United Methodist...

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The United Methodists formed one of the three streams of Methodism then extant in Britain. In 1932 it merged with the Primitive Methodist Church and the Wesleyan Methodist Church

Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)

The Wesleyan Methodist Church was the name used by the major Methodist movement in Great Britain following its split from the Church of England after the death of John Wesley and the appearance of parallel Methodist movements...

 to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain

Methodist Church of Great Britain

The Methodist Church of Great Britain is the largest Wesleyan Methodist body in the United Kingdom, with congregations across Great Britain . It is the United Kingdom's fourth largest Christian denomination, with around 300,000 members and 6,000 churches...

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The British United Methodist Church had no particular connection with the much larger United Methodist Church

United Methodist Church

The United Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination which is both mainline Protestant and evangelical. Founded in 1968 by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley...

 in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, other than the common heritage shared by all Methodist denominations; the American church did not take the name "United Methodist Church" until 1968.