History of the Michigan Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church
The Methodist Protestant Church, founded in 1828 by former members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, remained Wesleyan in doctrine and worship but removed the role of bishops and gave an increased role to laity and local clergy. The Michigan Conference of this new denomination was not established until 1842 and existed until the Methodist union of 1939 brought three major branches of Methodism back together. There is no published history of Michigan's Methodist Protestants, but this page provides access to some archival holdings on this denomination.
- Charles Bragg’s A Brief History of the Michigan Annual Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church
- Charles Bragg’s Biographies of Michigan pastors
- Online journals of the Michigan Conference and West Michigan Conference
- Alphabetical Lists of Michigan Methodist Protestant Pastors and Their Ministerial Appointments
Archives Finding Aids
- Records of the Michigan Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church
- Records of the West Michigan Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church
- Publications on the Origins of the Methodist Protestant Church
- Charles I. Bragg Papers
Related links
- The Methodist Church in Michigan: The Nineteenth Century (book by Margaret Macmillan – use search function to locate scattered material about Michigan Methodist Protestants)
- The Methodist Church in Michigan: The Twentieth Century (book by Douglas MacNaughton – see chapter 15, most of which concerns the Methodist Protestant Church, 1900-1939)
- Excerpts from the Michigan court decision on the legality of the 1939 merger
- Methodist Protestant articles in the Ann Arbor antislavery newspaper Signal of Liberty