Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Methodist Church (also called yr Eglwys Fethodistaidd in Welsh) is the largest Wesleyan Methodist body and fourth largest Christian denomination in the United Kingdom, with congregations across Great Britain (although more limited in Scotland). In October 2013 the Church had 208,738 members in around 4,800 churches, with a wider connection to 446,600 adherents in total. Congregations in the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Malta and Gibraltar also form part of the British Methodist Church. It is a member of the World Council of Churches, the World Methodist Council, and other religious associations.Methodism began through the work of John Wesley (1703–1791), who led an evangelical revival in 18th-century Britain. An ordained Anglican clergyman, Wesley adopted unconventional and controversial practices, such as open-air preaching, to reach factory labourers and newly urbanised masses uprooted from their traditional village culture at the start of the Industrial Revolution. His preaching centred upon the universality of God's grace for all, the effect of faith on character, and the possibility of perfection in love during this life. He organised the new converts locally and in a \"Connexion\" across the whole of Britain.Following Wesley's death the Methodist movement became a separate Church, with its own ordained ministers; it is known as a \"Nonconformist Church\" because it does not conform to the rules of the Church of England. During the 19th century, the Wesleyan Methodist Church experienced many secessions, with the largest of the offshoots being the Primitive Methodists. The main streams of Methodism were re-united in 1932, forming \"The Methodist Church\" as it is known today.The Methodist Connexion is divided into units called circuits (containing several local churches) which are gathered into thirty-one districts. The supreme governing body of the Church is the Methodist Conference, which meets annually. The Conference is headed by the President of Conference, a presbyteral minister, supported by a Vice-President who can be a local preacher or deacon."@en }
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- Methodist_Church_of_Great_Britain abstract "The Methodist Church (also called yr Eglwys Fethodistaidd in Welsh) is the largest Wesleyan Methodist body and fourth largest Christian denomination in the United Kingdom, with congregations across Great Britain (although more limited in Scotland). In October 2013 the Church had 208,738 members in around 4,800 churches, with a wider connection to 446,600 adherents in total. Congregations in the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Malta and Gibraltar also form part of the British Methodist Church. It is a member of the World Council of Churches, the World Methodist Council, and other religious associations.Methodism began through the work of John Wesley (1703–1791), who led an evangelical revival in 18th-century Britain. An ordained Anglican clergyman, Wesley adopted unconventional and controversial practices, such as open-air preaching, to reach factory labourers and newly urbanised masses uprooted from their traditional village culture at the start of the Industrial Revolution. His preaching centred upon the universality of God's grace for all, the effect of faith on character, and the possibility of perfection in love during this life. He organised the new converts locally and in a \"Connexion\" across the whole of Britain.Following Wesley's death the Methodist movement became a separate Church, with its own ordained ministers; it is known as a \"Nonconformist Church\" because it does not conform to the rules of the Church of England. During the 19th century, the Wesleyan Methodist Church experienced many secessions, with the largest of the offshoots being the Primitive Methodists. The main streams of Methodism were re-united in 1932, forming \"The Methodist Church\" as it is known today.The Methodist Connexion is divided into units called circuits (containing several local churches) which are gathered into thirty-one districts. The supreme governing body of the Church is the Methodist Conference, which meets annually. The Conference is headed by the President of Conference, a presbyteral minister, supported by a Vice-President who can be a local preacher or deacon.".