英國循道會(Methodist Church of Great Britain)是英國衛理宗教會,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)。

英國循道會
The Methodist Church with "orb and cross" logo
宗派新教
主義衛理宗
政體聯繫制英語Connexionalism
會長Roger Walton[1]
副會長Rachel Lampard[1]
組織
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
教堂4,650 (2014)[2]
信徒202,000 (2014)[2]
Ministers1,760 (有薪俸的)[2]
救援機構All We Can
出版物Methodist Recorder
官方網站methodist.org.uk

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  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). 
  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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