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Francis Asbury (August 20 or 21, 1745 – March 31, 1816) was a British-American Methodist minister who became one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States.
Francis Asbury (Hamstead, Birmingham, 20 de agosto de 1745 -Spotsylvania, Virginia, 31 de marzo de 1816) figura como uno, junto con Thomas Coke , de los dos primeros obispos de la iglesia metodista en América.
Francis Asbury (born Aug. 20, 1745, Hamstead Bridge, Staffordshire, Eng.—died March 31, 1816, Spotsylvania, Va., U.S.) was the first bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church consecrated in the United States. His efforts did much to assure the continuance of the church in the New World.
14 de sept. de 2022 · Francis Asbury fue el primer obispo de la Iglesia Metodista Episcopal consagrado en los Estados Unidos. Sus esfuerzos hicieron de los metodistas una de las denominaciones más grandes de Norteamérica.
Francis Asbury: A Flame Spirit. A brief documentary of the life of the first American Methodist Bishop who traveled to the American territories where he spent his life preaching. The first bishop of Methodism traveled thousands of miles on horseback sharing the Gospel and organizing a church.
Los predicadores estadounidenses se reunieron en Navidad en 1784 en Baltimore para implementar el plan. Se ordenó una docena de predicadores, se aceptó a Coke como obispo y Asbury fue elegido y consagrado al mismo cargo. Publicado originalmente por Archivos e Historia.
17 de ago. de 2020 · English-born Francis Asbury certainly had the numbers: during his 45-year ministry in America, he traveled on horseback or in carriage an estimated 300,000 miles, delivering some 16,500 sermons.
