Editing Methodist Protestant Church (section)

===Establishment===

In response to actual and threatened expulsions, a convention was held in [[Baltimore]], November 12, 1828, an initial organization was formed with the provisional name of "The Associated Methodist Churches," temporary Articles of Association adopted, and its first General Conference scheduled for 1830.  The intervening time was used to form local  churches and organized into annual (regional) conferences.  Fourteen Annual Conferences were represented by one hundred and fourteen delegates at the first General Conference, called to order on November 2, 1830.  The delegates adopted the permanent name "Methodist Protestant Church" to denote its connection to the reform movement, adopted a Constitution and Discipline reflecting the representative form the reformers had sought within the Methodist Episcopal Church. Unlike the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Protestant Church rejected the use of bishops. In the MEC, the bishops had the power to appoint pastors to local churches. The Methodist Protestant Church appointed pastors by a president of the conference. The conference then affirmed the appointment.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Airhart|first=Phyllis D.|date=December 1997|title=Wesley and the People Called Methodists. By Richard P. Heitzenrater. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1995. xii + 338 pp. $19.95.|journal=Church History|volume=66|issue=4|pages=840–842|doi=10.2307/3169257|jstor=3169257|s2cid=162363477 |issn=0009-6407}}</ref>