Founded in 1784. Present building completed in 1918. Methodism is rooted in an English movement within the Anglican Church begun in late 1730s. Evangeli- cal-leaning Church of England priests John and Charles Wesley sent ministers and bishops to the post- Revolutionary War United States due to shortage of priests. in the post- Revolutionary War United States. These missionaries pursued itinerant open-air preaching and one of them, Bishop Francis Asbury (one of the founders of the Methodist Episc

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