The Methodist Church was the name adopted by the Methodist denomination

Christian denomination

A Christian denomination is an identifiable religious body under a common name, structure, and doctrine within Christianity. In the Orthodox tradition, Churches are divided often along ethnic and linguistic lines, into separate churches and traditions. Technically, divisions between one group and...

 formed in the United States

United States

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 by the reunion on May 10, 1939 of the northern and southern

Methodist Episcopal Church, South

The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, or Methodist Episcopal Church South, was the so-called "Southern Methodist Church" resulting from the split over the issue of slavery in the Methodist Episcopal Church which had been brewing over several years until it came out into the open at a conference...

 factions of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Methodist Episcopal Church

The Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes referred to as the M.E. Church, was a development of the first expression of Methodism in the United States. It officially began at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784, with Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke as the first bishops. Through a series of...

 with the Methodist Protestant Church

Methodist Protestant Church

The Methodist Protestant Church is a regional Church body which was officially formed in 1828 by former members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, remaining Wesleyan in doctrine and worship, but adopting congregational governance....

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Its book of liturgy was The Book of Worship for Church and Home

Book of Worship for Church and Home (1965)

The Book of Worship for Church and Home 1965 was the second liturgical book of The Methodist Church, replacing the 1945 book of the same name. This book was replaced in 1992 with The United Methodist Book of Worship....

, editions of which were published in 1945 and 1965. They had two official hymnals, the first being The Methodist Hymnal, published in 1935 and 1939 by the three churches that later became the Methodist Church. It was replaced in 1966 by The Book of Hymns

The Book of Hymns

The Book of Hymns was the official hymnal of The Methodist Church, later the United Methodist Church, in the United States of America, until it was replaced in 1989 by The United Methodist Hymnal. Published in 1966 it replaced The Methodist Hymnal, published in 1935, as the official hymnal of the...

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The Methodist Church merged with the Evangelical United Brethren Church on April 23, 1968 to form the United Methodist Church

United Methodist Church

The United Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination which is both mainline Protestant and evangelical. Founded in 1968 by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley...

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