Wikipedia's article on the United Methodist Church, community-edited. Reliable for the 1939 merger, at a Uniting Conference in Kansas City, Missouri running from 26 April to 10 May, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church South (which had split from it in 1844 over slavery), and the Methodist Protestant Church into The Methodist Church. Also reliable for the compromise the southern church required for reunion: a sixth, race based Central Jurisdiction covering nineteen Black annual conferences, held administratively apart from the five geographic jurisdictions covering white members, which the article states was not dissolved until the 1968 merger with the Evangelical United Brethren Church, itself conditioned on the Central Jurisdiction's abolition.
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Reliability Tier3
Community-edited reference page, tier 3, on a dated merger with named merging bodies and a documented, uncontested account of the racial compromise the reunion required, distinct from a separate United Methodist News Service source already in this catalog (16902) that this file does not need to touch. NotesUsed for Methodism's 1939 reunification of the churches split by the 1844 slavery schism already on the tradition's map, verified against the 1968 alternative event named in the same lead and found to be the correct one.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Methodist_Church
Source Typereference
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This source names Evangelical directly: "until the 1968 merger with the Evangelical United Brethren Church, itself conditioned on the Central Jurisdiction's abolition."
This source names Missouri directly: "a Uniting Conference in Kansas City, Missouri running from 26 April to 10 May, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church South (which had split from it in 1844 over slavery)..."
This source names United Methodist Church directly: "Wikipedia's article on the United Methodist Church, community-edited."
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- Sources, 11 claims: 8 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Spread Events, 10 claims: 4 well-attested, 4 holds, 2 general references.
- Articles, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
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