At the Lovely Lane chapel in Baltimore, American Methodists organize the Methodist Episcopal Church and elect Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury as superintendents; Methodism in America becomes a church of its own.
Tagged: Christian Methodist and Wesleyan
The Event
- Date
- 1784 (exact)
- Era
- Modern; Standard ecumenical periodization
- Location
- Baltimore; today Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Traditions
- Christianity
- Streams
- Methodist and Wesleyan
- Key figures
- Francis Asbury, Thomas Coke
- Key texts
- The Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1785)
Primary Sources
- Minutes of the Christmas Conference (1784)
Secondary Sources
- González, The Story of Christianity, vols. 1–2 (Harper, 2010)
Provenance: HIST-0056; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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