英国循道会

英国循道会
英国循道会
宗派	新教
主義	衛理宗
政體	聯繫制（英语：Connexionalism）
會長	Roger Walton
副會長	Rachel Lampard
組織	列表普世教会协会 ; 世界循道衛理宗協會（英语：World Methodist Council） ; 歐洲教會協會（英语：Conference of European Churches） ; 欧洲新教教会联盟（英语：Community of Protestant Churches in Europe） ; 英國與愛爾蘭教會聯合會（英语：Churches Together in Britain and Ireland） ; 英格蘭教會共同行動（英语：Churches Together in England） ; 蘇格蘭教會共同行動（英语：Action of Churches Together in Scotland） ; 威爾斯教會共同行動（英语：Cytûn） ;
區域	英國; 海峽群島 · 曼島 · 直佈羅陀 · 馬耳他
總部	倫敦馬里波恩路25號
起源	1932（Methodist Union）
合併	大英循道會（英语：Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)）; 循原會（英语：Primitive Methodist Church）; 聖道公會（英语：United Methodist Church）;
教堂	4,650 (2014)
信徒	202,000 （2014）
Ministers	1,760 （有薪俸的）
救援機構	All We Can
出版物	Methodist Recorder
官方網站	methodist.org.uk

英國循道會（Methodist Church of Great Britain）是英國的衛理宗教會，也是全世界所有循道及衛理會的母會^[3]。1738年，它由英国人约翰·卫斯理（1703年－1791年）和其弟查理·卫斯理于伦敦创立，現在信仰者超20万人^[2]。英國循道會的最高組織是每年由會長舉行的循道會年議會（Methodist Conference）。

参考文献

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 Presidency. The Methodist Church in Britain. [3 July 2016]. （原始内容存档于2016年7月7日）.
^ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Methodism in Numbers – Statistics at a Glance (PDF). methodist.org.uk. The Methodist Conference. July 2015 [23 December 2015]. （原始内容 (PDF)存档于2015年12月23日）.
^ Jr, Charles Yrigoyen. T&T Clark Companion to Methodism. A&C Black. 25 September 2014: 73. ISBN 9780567290779 （英语）. British Methodism therefore holds an inescapable chronological priority in the history of world Methodism and it has also often been accorded a courteous priority of esteem, being regard still as the 'mother church' by Methodists from many parts of the globe. The story of the origins and development of Methodism in what is now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, therefore, is the story, first, of an eighteenth-century movement which gave birth to the whole Methodist enterprise and then of a nineteenth-century church whose influence reached out across the world through the missionary endeavors of the various British Connexions within and beyond the British Empire.

外部链接

官方网站
英国循道会的X（前Twitter）账号
Methodist Diaconal Order
Structure of the Methodist ChurchPDF at methodist.org.uk
Anglican-Methodist Covenant （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
Methodist Recorder newspaper （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
Methodist Evangelicals Together (formerly Headway)
Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
BBC - Religions - Christianity: Methodist Church （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）

[presidency-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Presidency. The Methodist Church in Britain. [3 July 2016]. （原始内容存档于2016年7月7日）.

[mission-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Methodism in Numbers – Statistics at a Glance (PDF). methodist.org.uk. The Methodist Conference. July 2015 [23 December 2015]. （原始内容 (PDF)存档于2015年12月23日）.

[3] Jr, Charles Yrigoyen. T&T Clark Companion to Methodism. A&C Black. 25 September 2014: 73. ISBN 9780567290779 （英语）. British Methodism therefore holds an inescapable chronological priority in the history of world Methodism and it has also often been accorded a courteous priority of esteem, being regard still as the 'mother church' by Methodists from many parts of the globe. The story of the origins and development of Methodism in what is now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, therefore, is the story, first, of an eighteenth-century movement which gave birth to the whole Methodist enterprise and then of a nineteenth-century church whose influence reached out across the world through the missionary endeavors of the various British Connexions within and beyond the British Empire.

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