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Protestant Methodists

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The Protestant Methodists were a small Methodist church based in Leeds. They left the Methodist conference in 1827 in protest at the installation of an organ in Brunswick Chapel in Leeds. This grew into a wider dispute around the style of government of the conference, though it continued to be known as the Leeds Organ Dispute. The Protestant Methodists constituted themselves as a separate body in 1828.

Timeline of Methodist connexions in Britain

In 1836, the group joined the Wesleyan Association, by which time they consisted of several thousand members, mostly in Leeds.[1] Through subsequent mergers, the Wesleyan Association became part of the United Methodist Church in 1907 and in 1932 became part of the Methodist Church of Great Britain.

References

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  • The Penguin Dictionary of British History, Ed. Juliet Gardiner