Asbury, Francis
ASBURY, FRANCIS (1745–1816), chief architect of American Methodism. Raised on the fringes of Birmingham in England's "Black Country," where the industrial r...
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Francis Asbury
Born August 20?, 1745 (Staffordshire, England) Died March 31, 1816 (Spotsylvania, Virginia)
Methodist bishop
Francis Asbury was North America's first Methodist bishop. He left En...
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Francis Asbury (1745-1816), English-born American clergyman, broke with the English Methodists in 1787 and established the Methodist Episcopal Church in America.Francis Asbury was born on Aug. 20 or 2...
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