The Methodist Church (1939)
Methodist · 1939 · United States
The 1939 reunion of the northern, southern, and Methodist Protestant churches — achieved at the cost of the racially segregated Central Jurisdiction (1939–1968), which the node states plainly as part of the merger's history.
The Methodist Church (1939) was formed in 1939. It ended as a separate body in 1968, entering United Methodist Church. The Methodist Church (1939)'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 The Methodist Church (1939) stand 3 divisions along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.
At a glance
- Formed
- In 1939
- Family
- Methodist
- Region
- United States
- Ended
- It ended as a separate body in 1968, entering United Methodist Church.
What it was organized out of
- Formed by union with Methodist Episcopal Church, one of several constituents.
- Formed by union with Methodist Episcopal Church, South, one of several constituents.
- Formed by union with Methodist Protestant Church, one of several constituents.
Bodies organized out of it or separated from it: United Methodist Church.
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.