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Church membership tripled, and Protestant evangelicalism quickly became the dominant cultural expression in America, fueled by a post-millennialist eschatology (which taught that the Second Coming of Jesus would occur at the conclusion of a thousand-year golden reign).
Mar 23, 2023 · Located approximately twenty miles west of Philadelphia St. David’s Episcopal Church in Wayne/Radnor, Pennsylvania is one of the oldest churches in southeastern Pennsylvania. This paper started...
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Hampton, Virginia
Web: www.stjohnshampton.org St. John’s Episcopal Church was the second Anglican parish founded in Virginia after Jamestown, but the oldest that is continually active. Hampton was the second major English settlement of the Jamestown peninsula. It was established in 1610 as part of a relief expedition during the Starving Time. An initial church was constructed at the site of the first settlement. However, the center of Hampton moved several times, and the parish moved with it. The current St. J...
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Web: http://firstparishplymouthuu.org The First Parish Church in Plymouth is home to what is claimed (by a technicality) to be the oldest continuously active Protestant congregation in the United States. It was actually founded in the town of Scrooby, England in 1606 before relocating to America with the Pilgrims on the Mayflower. It officially became reestablished in Massachusetts on November 9, 1620, becoming America’s first English-speaking non-Anglican Protestant congregation in the colon...
New York, New York
Web: www.marblechurch.org Marble Collegiate Church, a direct offshoot of the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church (the mother church of Dutch Reformism in America), was founded in 1628 and is the oldest congregation in New York City. It was the center of New York’s religious life for well over half a century. Their first church building was completed in Lower Manhattan in 1633, but over time the growing congregation split and moved several times. The current church building in Midtown...
Boston, Massachusetts
Web: www.firstchurchboston.org The First Church of Boston is the original congregation of Boston, established in 1630 long before the founding of the city’s Anglican parishes. It actually began as an extension of a congregation in Charlestown across the river (no longer in existence) and originally met in a meeting house. John Cotton, one of the earliest prominent ministers in American history, served here for a brief period. The congregation moved several times over the years, and in the 19t...
Providence, Rhode Island
Web: www.firstbaptistchurchinamerica.org The First Baptist Meeting House is the home of the oldest Baptist congregation in the United States. It was founded by Roger Williams, who came to America in 1631 to serve as a Puritan minister. However, in Massachusetts he quickly became disillusioned, both because of the church wasn’t quite separate enough from state, as well as his more moderate views on Christian law. In 1638 he and a few of his followers fled to Rhode Island and established the ne...
History of Protestantism in the United States. The Early Puritans of New England Going to Church by George Henry Boughton (1867) Christianity was introduced with the first European settlers beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The theological and religious descendants of the Protestant Reformation arrived in the United States in the early 17th century, shaped American culture in the 18th century, grew dramatically in the 19th century, and continued to be the guardians of American religious life in the 20th century.
St. David’s was represented in 1784 at the first General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States. The incorporation and charter of the church followed in August, 1792.
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Among Protestants, adherents to Anglicanism, Methodism, the Baptist Church, Congregationalism, Presbyterianism, Lutheranism, Quakerism, Mennonite and the Moravian Church were the first to settle in the US, spreading their faith in the new country. Today most Christians in the United States are Mainline Protestant, Evangelical, or Roman Catholic.
