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Global Methodist Church

Methodist · 2022 · United States; international

The traditionalist denomination formed in 2022 amid the UMC's long dispute over its teaching and discipline on sexuality; departing congregations cited the denomination's doctrinal trajectory, and the continuing UMC removed its prohibitions in 2024. The tree's freshest fork; the node states both sides' stated grounds without adjudication.

Global Methodist Church was formed in 2022. Global Methodist Church continues today. Global Methodist Church's institutional line runs back through United Methodist Church, The Methodist Church (1939), Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodism, 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 Global Methodist Church stand 4 divisions along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.

At a glance

Formed
In 2022
Family
Methodist
Region
United States; international
Cause tags
Doctrine, Governance
Also known as
GMC

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.

Sources

Research compiled July 2026. Page data built 2026-10-10. This is live history; a recheck is pending before first publication.