Oneness Pentecostalism
Pentecostal and Charismatic · 1913–1916 · United States; worldwide
The stream holding baptism in Jesus' name and a non-trinitarian doctrine of the Godhead (Father, Son, and Spirit as titles of the one God whose name is Jesus); condemned by the AG in 1916, its ministers withdrew and organized separately — the Pentecostal movement's deepest doctrinal division.
Oneness Pentecostalism was formed between 1913 and 1916, as a process rather than a single event. Oneness Pentecostalism continues today. Oneness Pentecostalism's institutional line runs back through Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, The Holiness movement, 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 Oneness Pentecostalism stand 5 divisions along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.
At a glance
- Formed
- Between 1913 and 1916, as a process rather than a single event
- Region
- United States; worldwide
- Key figures
- G. T. Haywood
- Cause tags
- Doctrine
- Also known as
- Apostolic Pentecostals; Jesus' Name Pentecostals; PAW / UPCI (major bodies)
What it separated from
- Separated from Assemblies of God.
On the tree
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.