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American Church History: Holiness Denominations

This research guide provides resources pretraining to American church history and includes books, ebooks, open access resources, and websites.

Holiness Churches

Apostolic Christian Churches of America: Founded in the 1830's, membership is estimated to be 19,557 across 87 churches (2020).

The Bible Methodist Connection of Churches: Founded in 1968, membership is estimated to be 3,500 across 72 churches (2016).

The Christian and Missionary Alliance: Founded in 1887, membership is estimated to be 428,721 across 1,978 churches (2007).

Church of Christ (Holiness) USA: Founded in 1894, membership is estimated to be 12,960 across 139 churches (2012).

Church of God (Anderson, Indiana): Founded in 1881, membership is estimated to be 427,038 across 1,944 churches (2020).

Church of God (Holiness): Founded in 1883, membership is estimated to be 8,000 across 140 churches (2000).

Church of the Nazarene: Founded in 1908, membership is estimated to be 905,690 across 5,155 churches (2020).

Churches of Christ in Christian Union: Founded in 1909, membership is estimated to be 12,000 across 225 churches (2016).

Free Methodist Church of North America: Founded in 1860, membership is estimated to be 110,000 across 900 congregations (2016). 

Wesleyan Church: Founded in 1968, membership is estimated to be 306,005 across 1,463 churches (2020).

 

Holy Bible

There is no official bible for these denominations, but different churches may prefer one translation over another.