| United Brethren In Christ |
Article Index for United |
Website Links For United Brethren |
Information AboutUnited Brethren In Christ |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST | |
| methodist denominations | |
|
The ecclesiastical polity of the Church is . Bishops are elected for four years. The first delegated general conference met at Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania , in 1815, and adopted a confession of faith, rules of order and a book of discipline, which were revised in 1885-1889, when women were first admitted to ordination, and when the Conservatives , protesting against the new constitution, withdrew and formed the body now commonly known. as the United Brethren in Christ of the Old Constitution. The Liberal branch had 3732 organizations in 1906 with a total membership of 274,649. This body carries on missions in West Africa (since 1855), Japan , China , the Philippines and Puerto Rico . It has a publishing house (1834) and Bonebrake Theological Seminary (1871) at Dayton, Ohio ; and supports Otterbein University (1847) at Westerville, 0.; Westfield College (1865) at Westfield, Illinois; Leander Clark College (1857) at Toledo, Iowa; York College (1890) at York, Nebraska; Philomath College (1867) at Philomath, Oregon; Lebanon Valley College (1867) at Annville, Pa.; Campbell College (1864) at Holton Kansas, and Central University (1907) at Indianapolis, Indiana. The Old Constitution body had 572 organizations in 1906 with a total membership of 21,401. It has a publishing house at Huntington, Indiana. See D. Berger, ''History of the Church of the United Brethren'' (1897), and his sketch (1894) in vol xii. of the ''American Church History Series''; E. L. Shuey, ''Handbook of the United Brethren in Christ'' (1893); W. J. Shuey, ''Year-Book of the United Brethren in Christ'' (from 1867); and A. W. Drury, ''Life of Philip William Otterbein'' (1884). REFERENCES |
|
|