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United Methodist Church
Mainline Protestant
Founded: 1968
Membership: 7,679,850 Clergy: 45,230 Congregations: 33,583 as of 2009
Seminaries: See link above
Short History:
The United Methodist Church, the third-largest church in America, continues the Methodist movement founded in the 18th century in England by John Wesley. In 1968, a long process of consolidation of various Methodist churches in the United States culminated in the formation of the United Methodist Church by the merger of the Methodist Church (1939-1968) and the United Evangelical Brethren. -- ARDA.
In 2022, a splinter denomination, The Global Methodist Church, was founded due to schism in the United Methodist Church. Traditionalist congregations saw the church was most likely going to move away from traditional Methodism. These churches left the larger denomination and formed their own branch.
Local Churches near the LPTS Campus:
St Paul UMC, 2000 Douglass Blvd, Louisville, KY 40205
Crescent Hill UMC, 201 S Peterson Ave, Louisville , KY, 40206