The United Methodist Church

This source names The United Methodist Church directly: "the official formation narrative for the United Methodist Church: the adoption of life tenure for bishops, and the dissolution of the Methodist Church's racially segregated Central Jurisdiction, a..."

This source names The United Methodist Church directly: "UM News, the United Methodist Church's own official news service, reporting that Cote d'Ivoire Conference members, meeting in a 28 May 2024 special session in Abidjan, unanimously voted for the..."

This source names The United Methodist Church directly: "organization not affiliated with the United Methodist Church or any Methodist body, reporting the 28 May 2024 vote of the Cote d'Ivoire Conference, known locally as EMUCI, to withdraw from the..."

This source names The United Methodist Church directly: "Formation of The United Methodist Church, published on the denomination's own umc.org site, is the church's official account of its own founding, the constituting General Conference of 23 April 1968..."

This source names The United Methodist Church directly: "Reliable for the United Methodist Church's 2019 General Conference passing the Traditional Plan by a vote of 438 to 384, upholding restrictions on same-sex marriage and the ordination of..."

This source names United Methodist Church directly: "of Pension and Health Benefits of The United Methodist Church, including its Grant Thornton LLP-audited Combined Statements of Assets and Liabilities and Net Assets as of December 31, 2024."

This source names The United Methodist Church directly: "The Book of Discipline is the United Methodist Church's own book of order and doctrine, revised at each quadrennial General Conference, and this record deliberately cites no single edition year..."

This source names The United Methodist Church directly: "in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, members of the United Methodist Church's Cote d'Ivoire Conference, known locally as EMUCI, voted unanimously to leave the denomination."

This source names United Methodist Church directly: "In 2019, the United Methodist Church's General Conference passed the Traditional Plan by a vote of 438..."

This source names The United Methodist Church directly: "United Brethren Church united to form the United Methodist Church at the Uniting Conference in Dallas in 1968, already recorded here, and twenty seven years before the Global Methodist Church split..."

This source names The United Methodist Church directly: "in Thee, in Thy Church and now in The United Methodist Church."

This source names The United Methodist Church directly: "the Primitive Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church met in the Uniting Conference at the Royal Albert Hall in London and adopted the Deed of Union, fifty one years after the Ecumenical..."

This source names United Methodist Church directly: "during a wave of departures from the United Methodist Church over disagreements about ordination and marriage."

This source names The United Methodist Church directly: "Global Methodist Church separated from the United Methodist Church or how that split has actually played out, so a claim about the broader Methodist schism needs an independent historical or..."

This source names United Methodist Church directly: "Wikipedia's article on the United Methodist Church, community-edited."

This source names The United Methodist Church directly: "religion news outlet unaffiliated with the United Methodist Church or any Methodist body, reporting the November 2025 ratification of the United Methodist Church's worldwide regionalization..."

This source names The United Methodist Church directly: "credited to Religion News Service, on the United Methodist Church General Conference's 1 May 2024 vote of 692 to 51 in Charlotte, North Carolina, to overturn the denomination's 1984 prohibition on..."

This source names The United Methodist Church directly: "UM News, the United Methodist Church's own official news service, on the Methodist Church's General Conference vote of 4 May 1956 in Minneapolis, which added one sentence to the Book of Discipline..."

Formed by the 1968 union of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren.

Classified as mainline Protestant tradition per Pew Research Center's 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. The Articles of Religion hold that there are two sacraments ordained of Christ, and that the other five are not to be counted for sacraments of the Gospel.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. The Articles name the worshipping and adoration of images and of relics as a fond thing vainly invented.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. The Articles name the invocation of saints in the same place, and Methodist prayer is addressed to God alone.

The United Methodist Church does not include the Apocrypha in its Bible or draw doctrine from it. Its canon follows the Protestant return, at the Reformation, to the thirty-nine books of the Hebrew Bible for its Old Testament, setting aside the wider collection of deuterocanonical and apocryphal writings that entered Christian use through the Greek Septuagint and that the Catholic and Orthodox churches continue to read as scripture.

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The United Methodist hymnal descends directly from the 1780 collection and still reprints Wesley's Directions for Singing.

The stole is the sign of ordination in the United Methodist Church and is given at the service of ordination itself.

District superintendents oversee groups of congregations on behalf of the bishop, and the office keeps the name Wesley gave it.

Bishops are elected from among the elders and hold the office of superintendency; the church does not teach that episcopacy is a separate order of ministry.

The United Methodist Church inherits the Wesleyan reading of temperance as abstinence and its Social Principles continue to commend it.

Refused, on the Arminian ground Methodism has held since Wesley.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. Works of mercy stand beside works of piety in the Methodist account of the Christian life, and neither is optional.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. Baptism is administered by sprinkling, pouring or immersion, the mode being left to the person receiving it, which is unusual among the churches that baptise infants.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. Baptism is understood as the sign of the new covenant and the beginning of a life of grace to be grown into, not a moment complete in itself.

Kept as the Reign of Christ on the last Sunday of the Christian year, from the Revised Common Lectionary.

Kept in the United Methodist Church.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. Confirmation is the profession of faith by which a baptised person is received into full membership, and it is not held to be a sacrament.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. Fasting is one of the means of grace, and Wesley kept the Friday fast himself and pressed it on the societies.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. The Service of Death and Resurrection is the modern form of the burial office and takes its name from what it is meant to proclaim.

Kept in the United Methodist Church.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. Ordination is to the orders of deacon and elder. The episcopacy is an office to which an elder is elected and consecrated, not a third order, which is the settled Methodist difference from Anglican practice.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. Infants are baptised, and the service places the congregation under a vow to nurture the child.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. Intinction is the ordinary manner of receiving in many congregations, and it follows from the use of unfermented grape juice in a common cup.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. The liturgical colours were retained from the Anglican inheritance and are set out in the modern service books.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. The marriage service descends from the Prayer Book by way of Wesley's abridgement of it for the American societies.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. Sunday is kept for public worship, and the General Rules bind members to attend upon the ordinances of God.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. Prayer stands among the means of grace Wesley called the works of piety, alongside searching the scriptures, the Lord's Supper and fasting.

Kept in the United Methodist Church.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. The Great Thanksgiving is a full anaphora, restored to Methodist worship in the twentieth century after two hundred years in which the Supper was celebrated from a much shorter form.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. The Great Thanksgiving carries an explicit invocation of the Holy Spirit on the gifts and on the people, which the sixteenth-century English rite did not.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. The breaking of the bread is a distinct action with its own words.

The prohibitions on the ordination of LGBTQ clergy and on same sex marriage were removed at the 2024 General Conference, after a long dispute during which many congregations left the denomination.

Kept in the United Methodist Church.

Kept in the United Methodist Church.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. The Lord's Supper is celebrated as a means of grace and Wesley pressed constant communion on the societies, though quarterly celebration became the practice for most of Methodist history for want of ordained ministers.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. The words of institution stand within the Great Thanksgiving.

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