The General Conference's demand that Bishop James Andrew give up his enslaved household splits American Methodism into the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; the division lasts until 1939.
Tagged: Schism Christian Methodist and Wesleyan
The Event
- Date
- 1844 (exact)
- Era
- Modern; Standard ecumenical periodization
- Location
- New York; today New York, USA
- Traditions
- Christianity
- Streams
- Methodist and Wesleyan
- Key figures
- James Osgood Andrew
Primary Sources
- Journal of the General Conference (1844)
Secondary Sources
- González, The Story of Christianity, vols. 1–2 (Harper, 2010)
- MacCulloch, A History of Christianity (Allen Lane, 2009)
Provenance: HIST-0057; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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