Editing Primitive Methodist Church (section)

{{Short description|Methodist Christian denomination}}
{{Infobox Christian denomination
|name = Primitive Methodist Church
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|main_classification = [[Protestant]]
|theology = [[Methodism]] 
|orientation = [[Holiness movement|Holiness]]<ref name="Hillerbrand2004"/>
|founded_date = 1807 
|separated_from = [[Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)|Wesleyan Methodist Church]] 
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|associations = World Federation of Primitive Methodists<br />[[Christian Holiness Partnership]]<ref name="Hillerbrand2004">{{cite book|last=Hillerbrand|first=Hans J.|title=Encyclopedia of Protestantism|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaprot00hill_755|url-access=limited|date=2 August 2004|publisher=Routledge|language=en|isbn=9781135960285|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaprot00hill_755/page/n2869 1898]}}</ref><br />[[National Association of Evangelicals]]
|area = United States (primarily) 
|congregations = 83<ref name="Balmer2002"/> 
|members = 8,487<ref name="Balmer2002"/>
|website = [http://www.primitivemethodistchurch.org/ primitivemethodistchurch.org]
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The '''Primitive Methodist Church''' is a Christian denomination within the [[holiness movement]]. Originating in early 19th-century England as a [[Christian revival|revivalist]] movement within [[Methodism]], it was heavily influenced by American evangelist [[Lorenzo Dow]] (1777–1834), whose visits inspired a return to fervent, [[open-air preaching]].

In the United States, the Primitive Methodist Church had eighty-three parishes and 8,487 members in 1996.<ref name="Balmer2002">{{cite book|last=Balmer|first=Randall Herbert|title=Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=syUupeVJOz4C&pg=PA468|access-date=30 May 2017|year=2002|publisher=Westminster John Knox Press|language=en|isbn=9780664224097|page=468}}</ref>{{update inline|date=May 2025}} In Great Britain and Australia, the Primitive Methodist Church merged with other denominations, to form the [[Methodist Church of Great Britain]] in 1932 and the [[Methodist Church of Australasia]] in 1901. (The latter subsequently merged into the [[Uniting Church in Australia]] in 1977.)<ref name="Trickler2010">{{cite book|last=Trickler|first=C. Jack|title=A Layman's Guide To: Why Are There So Many Christian Denominations?|year=2010|language=en |isbn=9781449045784|page=177|quote=In 1932 the British part of the Primitive Methodist Church merged with the British Wesleyan Church and the British United Methodists to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain.}}</ref>