First United Methodist Church of Oviedo Pamphlet

First United Methodist Church of Oviedo Pamphlet

First United Methodist Church Pamphlet

Oviedo (Fla.)

Churches--Florida

Methodism

Methodists--Southern States

The First United Methodist Church, located at 263 King Street in Oviedo, Florida. The Methodist Church has a far-reaching history in the South that goes back to the schism of 1844. Divided by the issue of slavery, Southern churches moved to create their own polity during a conference in Louisville, Kentucky. The Southern church eventually reunited with the elder Methodist Episcopal Church, as well as the Methodist Presbyterian Church in 1939, becoming a single polity. In 1940, more conservative congregations dissented from the merge and formed the Southern Methodist Church. The United Methodist Church was finally created on April 23, 1968, when the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church merged.

Original color photograph: Private Collection of Beatrice Gestrich.

ca. 1981

Gestrich, Beatrice

Digital reproduction of original color photograph.

Oviedo Historical Society Collection, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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First United Methodist Church, Oviedo, Florida

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Copyright to this resource is held by Oviedo Woman's Club and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Cepero, Laura

Private Collection of Beatrice Gestrich

Alexander, Gross, James Brown Scouller, R. V. Foster, and Thomas Cary Johnson. A History of the Methodist Church, South: The United Presbyterian Church, The Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church, South, in the United States. New York: Christian Literature Co, 1894.

1 color photograph