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Evangelical United Brethren Church

Methodist · 1946 · United States

German-American revival bodies that grew up beside Wesley's connexion around 1800, the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and the Evangelical Church, united in 1946 as the Evangelical United Brethren Church. In 1968 it merged with The Methodist Church at Dallas to form the United Methodist Church.

Evangelical United Brethren Church was formed in 1946. It ended as a separate body in 1968, entering United Methodist Church. Evangelical United Brethren Church's institutional line runs back through Reformed, 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 Evangelical United Brethren Church stand 3 divisions along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.

At a glance

Formed
In 1946
Family
Methodist
Region
United States
Ended
It ended as a separate body in 1968, entering United Methodist Church.
Cause tags
Doctrine, Geography
Also known as
EUB

What it separated from

  • Separated from Reformed.
  • Separated from Mennonites. Boehm's Mennonite background (United Brethren in Christ).
  • Separated from Lutheran. Albright's Lutheran background (Evangelical Association, later Evangelical Church).

Bodies organized out of it or separated from it: United Methodist Church.

On the tree

Evangelical United Brethren Church and its institutional line back to the post-apostolic churchAD 33The church at Pentecost: On divine groundThe church at Pentecost: on divine groundtoday100424431451105415171519153619461968The post-apostolic church (The spine)The post-apostolicchurchDepartureChurch of the East (Church of the East)Church of the EastChurch of the EastThe conciliar church (The spine)The conciliar churchDepartureThe Chalcedonian church (The spine)The Chalcedonian churchDepartureOriental Orthodoxy (Oriental Orthodox)Oriental OrthodoxyOriental OrthodoxEastern Orthodoxy (Eastern Orthodox)Eastern OrthodoxyEastern OrthodoxRoman Catholicism (Catholic)Roman CatholicismNot gatheredLutheran (Lutheran)LutheranLutheranReformed (Reformed and Presbyterian)ReformedReformed and PresbyterianMennonites (Anabaptist)MennonitesAnabaptistEvangelical United Brethren Church (Methodist)Evangelical UnitedBrethren ChurchMethodistUnited Methodist Church (Methodist)United Methodist ChurchMethodist

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

  • anglican-cascade.md §3a (umc.org timeline; Wikipedia, 'United Methodist Church')

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