The Pentecostal World Fellowship's own About Us page, recording the organization's founding in May 1947 at Zurich, Switzerland, when Swiss pastor Leonard Steiner organized a conference of Pentecostal leaders together with David J. du Plessis, J. Roswell Flower and Donald Gee, drawing roughly three thousand attendees, and the 1961 formal naming of the gathering as the Pentecostal World Conference.
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Reliability Tier1
The Fellowship's own published account of its founding, tier 1, used here for the 1947 Zurich founding conference's organizers and attendance, corroborated by Wikipedia's independent account below. NotesUsed for the May 1947 date, the Zurich location, the four organizers, the roughly three thousand attendees and the 1961 formal naming.
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PublisherPentecostal World Fellowship
URLhttps://www.pwfellowship.org/about-us
Source TypeOfficial denominational history
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This source names Switzerland directly: "founding in May 1947 at Zurich, Switzerland, when Swiss pastor Leonard Steiner organized a conference of Pentecostal leaders together with David J."
Source About Us (Pentecostal World Fellowship)
Zurich, Cities This source names Zurich directly: "organization's founding in May 1947 at Zurich, Switzerland, when Swiss pastor Leonard Steiner organized a conference of Pentecostal leaders together with David J."
Source About Us (Pentecostal World Fellowship)
Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)
This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 5 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Spread Events, 7 claims: 3 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
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