Wikipedia's article on the Global Methodist Church, community-edited. 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 non-celibate gay clergy that many progressive clergy then declined to follow; for the Global Methodist Church's launch on 1 May 2022 by congregations opposed to loosening those restrictions, led initially by Keith Boyette and then, from May 2022, Jay Therrell; for roughly 3,000 congregations having joined by July 2023; and for the United Methodist Church recording 7,673 congregations disaffiliated in total by December 2023, not all of which joined the Global Methodist Church specifically.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Methodist_Church
Source Typereference
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the 2019 Traditional Plan vote, the 1 May 2022 launch date, and the July 2023 and December 2023 scale figures, all stated plainly in the article's own text. NotesUsed for the 2019 to 2022 schism that produced the Global Methodist Church.
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