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International Pentecostal Holiness Church
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1911 - present
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International Pentecostal Holiness Church

Also known as: IPHC, Pentecostal Holiness Church
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History

International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC), Protestant denomination organized in Falcon, North Carolina, in 1911 by the merger of the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church (organized in 1898 by several Pentecostal associations) and the Pentecostal Holiness Church (organized in 1900). A third group, the Tabernacle Pentecostal Church, joined the consolidation in 1915. See also Holiness movement and Pentecostalism.

Unlike most other Pentecostal churches, the denomination permits candidates for baptism to “have the right of choice between the various modes as practiced by the several evangelical denominations.” It even permits the baptism of infants. In matters of polity, it is decidedly less democratic than other Pentecostal bodies. Reflecting the Methodist Episcopal heritage of its Holiness constituents, the denomination is divided into conferences: general, annual, district, and missionary.

The General Board of Education oversees the operations of three church-related institutions of higher learning: Emmanuel College, a fully accredited four-year college in Franklin Springs, Georgia; Holmes Bible College in Greenville, South Carolina; and Southwestern Christian University in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which Oral Roberts, a faith healer and evangelist, helped to establish. Headquarters are in Bethany, Oklahoma.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThis article was most recently revised and updated by Melissa Petruzzello.