United Methodist Church

United Methodist Church, in the United States, a mainline Protestant church formed in 1968 in Dallas, Texas, by the union of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church. It developed from the British Methodist revival movement led by John Wesley that was taken to the American colonies in the 1760s. In 2022 the church reported a global membership that exceeded 12 million people in 43,000 congregations. See also Methodism. The autonomous Methodist Episcopal...