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Jacob Albright

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jacob Albright 1759-1808, American religious leader, founder of the Evangelical Association (later the Evangelical Church), b. near Pottstown, Pa. A German Lutheran, he was converted c.1790 to Methodism. Preaching and forming classes among his converts in the German settlements, he was ordained a minister (1803) by representatives from these classes and was elected bishop in 1807. The movement, unrecognized by the Methodists, did not take the name Evangelical Association until after Albright's death. The Evangelical Church in 1946 united with the United Brethren in Christ to form the Evang... Read more
Evangelical Church
Evangelical Church. A small American Protestant body, also known as the Albright Brethren after Jacob Albright (1759–1808). Albright, originally a Lutheran , associated himself with the Methodist Episcopal Church . In... Read more
Evangelical United Brethren Church
...evangelical, pietistic efforts of Jacob Albright , a Lutheran convert to Methodism...Maryland, and Virginia. The methods of Albright, Otterbein, and Boehm were similar...spiritual life. The groups formed under Albright held a general conference in 1807... Read more

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