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 in Dallas, Texas, uniting The Methodist Church and The Evangelical United Brethren Church. As the denomination's own custodial history, it is fully authoritative for what it covers, the date, place and merging bodies of its own formation. It explicitly does not cover the earlier history of episcopal life tenure or the racially segregated Central Jurisdiction that preceded the merger, both carried instead by a separate United Methodist News Service article already seeded in this catalog alongside it.
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Formation of The United Methodist Church, published on the denomination's own umc.org site, the top tier reflecting that it is the denomination's own custodial history, fully authoritative for the date, place and merging bodies of its own 1968 formation, notwithstanding that it explicitly does not cover the earlier history of the racially segregated Central Jurisdiction that preceded the merger, carried instead by a separate seeded source. NotesThe denomination on its own founding: 23 April 1968, the constituting General Conference at Dallas, Texas, uniting The Methodist Church and The Evangelical United Brethren Church. Does NOT cover episcopal life tenure or the Central Jurisdiction; those are carried by the United Methodist News Service article seeded alongside this row.
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AuthorThe United Methodist Church
PublisherUnited Methodist Church
URLhttps://www.umc.org/en/content/formation-of-the-united-methodist-church
Source TypeOfficial denominational history
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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..."
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- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Spread Events, 8 claims: 3 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Denominations, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
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