英國循道會

英國循道會
宗派	新教
主義	衛理宗
政體	聯繫制（英語：Connexionalism）
會長	Roger Walton
副會長	Rachel Lampard
組織	列表普世教會協會 ; 世界循道衛理宗協會（英語：World Methodist Council） ; 歐洲教會協會（英語：Conference of European Churches） ; 歐洲新教教會聯盟（英語：Community of Protestant Churches in Europe） ; 英國與愛爾蘭教會聯合會（英語：Churches Together in Britain and Ireland） ; 英格蘭教會共同行動（英語：Churches Together in England） ; 蘇格蘭教會共同行動（英語：Action of Churches Together in Scotland） ; 威爾斯教會共同行動（英語：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（英語：Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)）; 循原會（英語：Primitive Methodist Church）; 聖道公會（英語：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，它由英國人約翰·衛斯理（1703年－1791年）和其弟查理·衛斯理於倫敦創立，現在信仰者超20萬人^[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）。

參考文獻[編輯]

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 Presidency. The Methodist Church in Britain. [3 July 2016]. （原始內容存檔於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]. （原始內容 (PDF)存檔於2015年12月23日）.
^ Jr, Charles Yrigoyen. T&T Clark Companion to Methodism. A&C Black. 25 September 2014: 73. ISBN 9780567290779 （英語）. 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.

外部連結[編輯]

官方網站
英國循道會的X帳戶
Methodist Diaconal Order
Structure of the Methodist ChurchPDF at methodist.org.uk
Anglican-Methodist Covenant （頁面存檔備份，存於互聯網檔案館）
Methodist Recorder newspaper （頁面存檔備份，存於互聯網檔案館）
Methodist Evangelicals Together (formerly Headway)
Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland （頁面存檔備份，存於互聯網檔案館）
BBC - Religions - Christianity: Methodist Church （頁面存檔備份，存於互聯網檔案館）

[presidency-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Presidency. The Methodist Church in Britain. [3 July 2016]. （原始內容存檔於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]. （原始內容 (PDF)存檔於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 （英語）. 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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