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Methodist Protestant Church

Methodist · 1828–1830 · United States

Reformers within the Methodist Episcopal Church sought lay representation in conference and elected presidents in place of bishops. After expulsions in 1828 they organized the Methodist Protestant Church in 1830. It entered the 1939 union with the two Methodist Episcopal churches that formed The Methodist Church.

Methodist Protestant Church was formed between 1828 and 1830, as a process rather than a single event. It ended as a separate body in 1939, entering The Methodist Church (1939). Methodist Protestant Church's institutional line runs back through 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 Methodist Protestant Church stand 4 divisions along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.

At a glance

Formed
Between 1828 and 1830, as a process rather than a single event
Family
Methodist
Region
United States
Ended
It ended as a separate body in 1939, entering The Methodist Church (1939).
Cause tags
Governance

What it separated from

Bodies organized out of it or separated from it: The Methodist Church (1939).

On the tree

Methodist Protestant Church and its institutional line back to the post-apostolic churchAD 33today100424431451105415341729178418281939The post-apostolic church (The spine)The post-apostolicchurchThe spineChurch of the East (Church of the East)Church of the EastChurch of the EastThe conciliar church (The spine)The conciliar churchThe spineThe Chalcedonian church (The spine)The Chalcedonian churchThe spineOriental Orthodoxy (Oriental Orthodox)Oriental OrthodoxyOriental OrthodoxEastern Orthodoxy (Eastern Orthodox)Eastern OrthodoxyEastern OrthodoxRoman Catholicism (Catholic)Roman CatholicismCatholicChurch of England (Anglican)Church of EnglandAnglicanMethodism (Methodist)MethodismMethodistMethodist Episcopal Church (Methodist)Methodist EpiscopalChurchMethodistMethodist Protestant Church (Methodist)Methodist ProtestantChurchMethodistThe Methodist Church (1939) (Methodist)The Methodist Church(1939)Methodist

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

  • anglican-cascade.md §3a (umc.org, 'Splits, Separations & Reconciliations'; Wikipedia, 'Methodist Episcopal Church')

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