African Union Methodist Protestant Church

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African Union Methodist Protestant Church
Classification	Methodism
Orientation	Holiness movement
Theology	Wesleyan
Polity	Connexionalism
Separations	Union American Methodist Episcopal Church (1865)
Congregations	40

Doctrine

Doctrinal standards
Bible Old Testament New Testament Creeds Nicene Creed Apostles' Creed Articles of Religion Sermons on Several Occasions Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament
Distinctive beliefs and practices
Assurance of faith Conditional preservation of the saints Priesthood of all believers Four sources of theological authority Covenant theology Substitutionary atonement Imparted righteousness Moral law New birth Free will Outward holiness Prevenient grace Real presence Sanctification (growth in grace) Sunday Sabbatarianism Christian perfection Second work of grace Baptism with the Holy Spirit Views on sin Works of piety Works of mercy

The African Union Methodist Protestant Church (AUMPC), abbreviated as A.U.M.P. Church, is a Methodist denomination. It was chartered by Peter Spencer (1782–1843) in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1813 as the "Union Church of Africans", where it became known as the "African Union Church".^[1]

History

The formation of the African Union Methodist Protestant Church is a part of the history of Methodism in the United States; in 1866, the First Colored Methodist Protestant Church merged with it. This was a Maryland offshoot of the A.M.E. Church, which was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Delaware-Maryland denomination renamed itself, combining names, as the African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church and Connection, usually called the A.U.M.P. Church. In the 1860s, a schism resulted in some of the congregations forming the "Union American Methodist Episcopal Church" in 1865. The two denominations are now referred to collectively as the "Spencer Churches" (or, less often, the "Union Churches").

Although a decentralized Methodist Protestant church in its earlier years, the A.U.M.P. Church in the 1880s began to consider adopting an episcopal structure. In 1922 it consecrated its first bishop, Daniel J. Russell, Jr. But it was not until 1967 that the Church fully changed to an episcopal structure and consecrated its two leaders as bishops.

The A.U.M.P. Church has a total of about 40 congregations in the area of the mid-Atlantic and Upper South: the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia.

Notable churches

Hosanna Meeting House, built in 1845 in the free Black village of Hinsonville, Chester County, Pennsylvania
St. John's Church (Ruxton, Maryland), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1982
St. John's African Union Methodist Protestant Church, Goshen, New York, listed on the NRHP in 2010
Saint Paul African Union Methodist Church, Washington, D.C., listed on the NRHP in 2011
Mt. Zion A. U. M. P., Marshalltown, NJ, mother church of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania districts. This is the base of bishop and historian Daniel James Russell. It is classified as a contributing resource in the Marshalltown Historic District, which was listed on the NRHP in July 2013

References

^ Dalleo, Peter T. (1997). Carole Marks (ed.). "The Growth of Delaware's Antebellum Free African Community". A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS OF DELAWARE AND MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE. University of Delaware.

External links

Official site
Russell, Daniel J. History of the African Union Methodist Protestant Church. Philadelphia: Union Star Book and Job Printing Publishing House, 1920. Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina
A.U.M.P. Book of Discipline, 1871, Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina
St. James African Union Methodist Protestant Church
Mount Calvary African Union Methodist Protestant Church
Mount Pleasant African Union Methodist Protestant Church

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African Methodist Episcopal Church	John Adams Sr. Richard Allen Sarah Allen Benjamin W. Arnett George Lincoln Blackwell Morris Brown Jamal Harrison Bryant John Richard Bryant Richard H. Cain Archibald Carey Jr. Daniel Coker James H. Cone James Levert Davis Jordan Winston Early Orishatukeh Faduma Floyd Flake Carolyn Tyler Guidry Sarah E. Gorham William H. Heard Reginald Jackson Henrietta Phelps Jeffries Absalom Jones Ben Kinchlow Vashti Murphy McKenzie Biddy Mason Lena Doolin Mason Robert Meacham Lyman S. Parks Daniel Payne Charles H. Pearce Clementa C. Pinckney William Paul Quinn Reverdy Cassius Ransom Richard Henry Singleton Charles Spencer Smith Theophilus Gould Steward Henry McNeal Turner William Tecumseh Vernon D. Ormonde Walker Lewis Woodson
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	William H. Day Julia A. J. Foote James Walker Hood Thomas James Singleton T. Jones John Kinard Jermain Wesley Loguen John E. Price William Henry Singleton John Bryan Small Mary J. Small Jeffery Tribble James Varick Alexander Walters
A.U.M.P. Church	Peter Spencer
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church	William Yancy Bell William H. Miles

Baptist

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church	Vernon Johns Martin Luther King Jr.
First African Baptist Church (Richmond, Virginia)	Lucy Goode Brooks
First African Baptist Church (Savannah, Georgia)	David George
Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship	Paul S. Morton
Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention	Clinton Caldwell Boone Lott Cary
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.	Stewart Cleveland Cureton Joseph H. Jackson T. J. Jemison Willie James Jennings Henry Lyons Benjamin Mays W. J. Simmons
National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.	R. H. Boyd
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America	S. M. Lockridge
Progressive National Baptist Convention	Ralph Abernathy William Augustus Jones Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Gardner C. Taylor
United American Free Will Baptist Church	Benjamin Randall

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African Orthodox Church (George Alexander McGuire)
Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A. (Charles Price Jones)
Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America
City of Refuge UCC (Yvette Flunder)
Global United Fellowship (Neil Ellis)
Imani Temple African-American Catholic Congregation (George Augustus Stallings Jr.)
Interdenominational Theological Center
Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge
Love Center Church (Walter Hawkins)
Original Church of God or Sanctified Church
Spencer Churches (Peter Spencer)
Trinity United Church of Christ (Otis Moss III)
United House of Prayer for All People (Marcelino Manuel da Graça
Walter McCollough
Samuel C. Madison
C.M. Bailey)
Union of Charismatic Orthodox Churches (Emilio Alvarez)

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