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Advent Christian Church

Adventist · 1860 · United States

Formed in 1860 from the Albany branch of Millerism, holding Miller wrong on the time but right on the imminence of Christ's coming, with conditionalist teaching on the intermediate state.

Advent Christian Church was formed in 1860. Advent Christian Church continues today. Advent Christian Church's institutional line runs back through Millerite movement, Triennial Convention, Particular Baptists, Congregationalists, Church of England, Roman Catholicism to the post-apostolic church. No body on this tree is the assembly of Acts 2; where a body claims that, the claim appears in the claimed-lineage layer.

Between the post-apostolic church and Advent Christian Church stand 5 divisions along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.

At a glance

Formed
In 1860
Family
Adventist
Region
United States
Cause tags
Doctrine
Also known as
Second Advent Christians

What it separated from

On the tree

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Solid lines are separations and unions; dashed lines are renewals that began inside a body; dotted gray lines are national organizations of one communion; a diamond marks a fork event where neither side is drawn as the one that left. Every line runs back to the post-apostolic church; no body descends from the assembly of Acts 2. Dashed gray boxes mark the institutional line after the apostles, shown as departure; no line of descent is drawn from Pentecost. A verdict appears on a box once its section is published.

Sources

Research compiled July 2026. Page data built 2026-10-31.