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Wesleyan Church

Holiness · 1843 · United States; worldwide

Methodist abolitionists under Orange Scott left the MEC in 1843, grounding immediate emancipation in Wesleyan perfectionism; the 1968 merger with the Pilgrim Holiness Church produced the present Wesleyan Church.

Wesleyan Church was formed in 1843. Wesleyan Church continues today. Wesleyan 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 Wesleyan Church stand 4 divisions along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.

At a glance

Formed
In 1843
Family
Holiness
Region
United States; worldwide
Key figures
Orange Scott
Cause tags
Politics, Doctrine
Also known as
Wesleyan Methodist Connection (1843 origin)

What it separated from

On the tree

Wesleyan Church and its institutional line back to the post-apostolic churchAD 33today100424431451105415341729178418431897The 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 EpiscopalChurchMethodistWesleyan Church (Holiness)Wesleyan ChurchHolinessPilgrim Holiness Church (Holiness)Pilgrim Holiness ChurchHoliness

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.