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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. During his 45 years in the colonies and the newly independent United States, he devoted his life to ministry, traveling on horseback and by carriage ...
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.
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Biographies. Francis Asbury. Francis Asbury (1745-1816) Francis Asbury was born August 20, 1745, in Hamstead Bridge, Staffordshire, England, to Methodist parents. He began preaching at age 18 and traveled to America in 1771. (He was the only Methodist minister to remain in America during the American Revolution.)
Asbury was born into a working-class Anglican family; he dropped out of school before he was 12 to work as a blacksmith's apprentice. By the time he was 14, he had been "awakened" in the...
Mar 20, 2020 · Francis Asbury, the father of American Methodism, was a missionary before he became a bishop in 1784 and was a missionary afterwards — until the day he died in in late March, 1816. Asbury was a missionary in the style of those sent by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 10.
Francis Asbury. On September 4, 1771, 22-year-old English lay-preacher Francis Asbury boarded a ship bound for America. He would remain there for the rest of his life. In December of 1784, he oversaw The Christmas Conference where he was ordained a pastor and consecrated the first bishop of the newly founded Methodist Episcopal Church. Under ...
May 21, 2018 · 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 England in 1771 and during his forty-year ministry traveled over more of America than any other person of his generation.
