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	Thomas Coke - LoveToKnow 1911
		THOMAS COKE (1747-1814), English divine, the first Methodist bishop, was born at Brecon, where his father was a well-to-do apothecary.
		He first visited that country in 1784, going to Baltimore as "superintendent" of the Methodist societies in the new world and, in 1787 the American conference changed his title to "bishop," a nomenclature which he tried in vain to introduce into the English conference, of which he was president in 1797 and 1805.
		Coke had always been a missionary enthusiast, and was the pioneer of such enterprise in his connexion.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Thomas_Coke (258 words)

	Thomas Coke (Methodist) - Plagiarism on Wikipedia
		Thomas Coke (1747–1814) was born in the Welsh town of Brecon, the son of a wealthy apothecary.
		Coke was driven from his curacy in 1776 because of his evangelical leanings and he then joined with the Methodists.
		Coke died while en route to India as the leader of the first Methodist mission to that country.
	www.wikipedia-watch.org /plagiarism/0305.html (479 words)

	Thomas Coke - MSN Encarta
		Thomas Coke, M.A., D.C.L. (September 9, 1747 – May 2, 1814) was the first Methodist Bishop and is known as the Father of Methodist Missions.
		Thomas Coke (1747-1814), British clergyman, missionary for the Methodist church, and first superintendent of Methodism in America.
		Born in Brecon, Wales, Coke graduated from the University of Oxford in 1768 and was ordained a minister in the Church of England in 1772.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552314/Thomas_Coke.html (310 words)

	Lois Perkins Chapel \| Thomas Coke
		Because of his earnest ministry, Coke was dismissed from his curacy in the Church of England and joined Wesley in preaching to crowds of people on the commons of London.
		After arriving in America, Coke conferred with Asbury and several of the Methodist preachers and called a conference for the purpose of organizing the Methodist Church in America.
		The preachers assembled in Baltimore, Md., and by unanimous vote resolved to constitute an independent church in America to be called the "Methodist Episcopal Church." Coke and Asbury were elected as bishops, whereupon Coke ordained Asbury and also a number of deacons and elders at the Christmas Conference.
	www.southwestern.edu /religious-life/lpc-coke.html (405 words)

	United Methodist Church
		The essential doctrines of the United Methodist Church are derived from the broader Methodist tradition from which it emerged.
		Methodism and African Methodist Episcopal Church.) Methodism arrived in America in the 1760s but its spread was interrupted by the outbreak of the American Revolution which made Methodist missionaries return to Britain.
		A worse split was caused by the increasing commitment of Northern Methodists to the abolition of slavery, a institution which Southern Methodists regarded as essential and justified by scripture.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/christ/esp/umc.html (509 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Methodism
		Coke arrived in New York on 3 November, 1784, and that same year what has become known as the Christmas conference was convened at Baltimore.
		The Wesleyan Methodist Association was organized in 1836 by Dr. Samuel Warren, whose opposition to the foundation of a theological seminary resulted in his secession from the parent body.
		The Free Methodist Church was organized in 1860 at Pekin, New York, as a protest against the alleged abandonment of the ideals of ancient Methodism by the Methodist Episcopal Church.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10237b.htm (5438 words)

	Thomas Coke - FREE Thomas Coke Biography \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		Thomas Coke, 1747-1814, English clergyman and early bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Coke-T.html (970 words)

	:: THE METHODIST CHURCH IN THE CARIBBEAN AND THE AMERICAS - JAMAICA DISTRICT
		Thomas Coke and his supporters, the foundations were laid worldwide communion of "the people called Methodists" - the name John Wesley used for the people who joined the societies.
		Young Coke became a valuable helper for Wesley and was instrumental in the start of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and soon became one of its Bishops.
		Coke faced opposition from the gentry and had a first hand glimpse of what it meant to be oppressed when the service was disrupted by a gang of drunken white men shouting “Down with him, Down with him” He was almost seized by one who shouted “who will second that fellow?”
	www.jamaicamethodist.org /methodist_history.htm (682 words)

	Methodist Archive and Research Centre: Coke, Papers of Dr Thomas
		Administrative/Biographical history: Thomas Coke was born in Brecon, the son of a medical practitioner.
		Coke took Holy Orders in August 1772 but was ejected from his curacy in Somerset for trying to run the parish on Methodist principles.
		Related material: The archive of the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society/Methodist Chruch Overseas Division is held in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
	www.mundus.ac.uk /cats/67/1264.htm (406 words)

	Thomas Coke
		He studied at Oxford (1768), and became an Anglican curate in Somerset, but in 1777 joined the Methodists, and was attached to the London circuit.
		In 1784 he was appointed by John Wesley as the superintendent of the Methodist Church in America.
		Thomas Coke (1747–1814), famous early Methodist Thomas Coke (1754–1842), famous agricultural innovator, created 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham
	encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/22056/Thomas-Coke.html (233 words)

	Thomas Coke
		Wesley's response was not what Coke expected: the young man was to "go on in the same path...visiting from house to house." A few months later a new senior minister, hostile to Methodist convictions, arrived in the parish.
		Throughout the Methodist awakening Wesley had forbidden his lay-preachers to administer the sacraments lest his people be accused of separating from the Church of England.
		Coke was to be the first Methodist bishop in the new world.
	www.victorshepherd.on.ca /Heritage/Coke.htm (858 words)

	Thomas Coke (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Though remembered primarily as the "Father of Methodist Missions," he was a key figure in the development of Methodism on both sides of the Atlantic in the years before and after Wesley's death.
		As Wesley's right hand man he became President of the Methodist Church in Ireland in 1782, and two years later was appointed "Bishop" for America.
		Hoping to open Methodist missions in the East Indies, in 1814 he set sail for Ceylon, but died on the way.
	www.gcah.org /Methodist_Bio/Thomas_Coke.htm (175 words)

	Thomas Coke (bishop) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since Coke was already a priest (greek presbuter) or presbyter in the Church of England, some interpret this consecration as the equivalent of episcopal consecration.
		A conference of Methodist preachers was held at Baltimore at which Coke and Francis Asbury were elected bishops and the Church was constituted as an independent body under the name of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
		On 27 December 1784 Coke ordained deacons and presbyters and consecrated Asbury bishop: they are regarded as having been jointly the first Bishops and Superintendents of the Methodist Church in America (the American Conference formally endorsed the title of Bishop in 1787).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Coke_(Methodist) (842 words)

	Faith & Values Media
		The African Methodist Episcopal Church is an offspring of the Methodist which was founded by John Wesley in England and America in the eighteenth century.
		The Methodist movement itself began in 1739 when John Wesley, an Anglican started within the Church of England a movement to improve the spiritual life of his Church.
		The name African Methodist came naturally, as Negroes at that time were called Africans and they followed the teaching of the Methodist Church as founded by John Wesley.
	www.faithstreams.com /topics/members-and-partners/african-methodist-episcopal-church.html (438 words)

	JRULM: Special Collections Guide: Thomas Coke Papers (Methodist Archives) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Coke was born in Brecon, the son of a medical practitioner.
		Coke took Holy Orders in August 1772 but was ejected from his curacy in Somerset for trying to run the parish on Methodist principles.
		Coke maintained an extensive correspondence throughout his life on a wide range of subjects, and the collection consists largely of these letters and associated papers.
	rylibweb.man.ac.uk /data2/spcoll/methodist/coke.html (297 words)

	CHAPTER - REV. THOMAS COKE, LL.D.
		Thomas, however, at this early age, was too much of a logician to lay the blame of his misconduct at the door of Christianity.
		Again was Coke a Christian in theory, and h is conversion thus far, resulted in his total abandonment of his infidel associates, and of their wicked practices.
		Coke was chosen common councilman of the borough of Brecon, and at the age of twenty-five, was elected chief magistrate or mayor of the corporation, which important office he filled with great acceptability.
	www.godrules.net /library/gorrie/147gorrie_b7.htm (6017 words)

	History - Commission on Pan-Methodist Cooperation & Union
		The United Methodist Church was formed in 1968 at the uniting conference in Dallas, Texas when the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church became one.
		Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury, appointed by Wesley, were elected and ordained as Superintendents (Bishops).
		In 1939 the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and the Methodist Protestant Church united to become the Methodist Church, and the divisions represented by the separate existence of these churches were, to a great extent, healed.
	www.gccuic-umc.org /panmeth/umchistory.htm (442 words)

	Thomas Coke (Methodist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thomas Coke (1747–1814) was born in the Welsh town of Brecon, the son of a wealthy apothecary.
		Coke was to make repeated visits to the United States during the next twenty-five years.
		Coke died while en route to India as the leader of the first Methodist mission to that country.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Thomas_Coke_(Methodist) (490 words)

	Thomas Coke Summary and Analysis Summary
		COKE, THOMAS (1747–1814), chief associate of John Wesley in the organization of worldwide Methodism.
		Bishop Thomas J. Grady, 87, who as director of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception from 1956 to 1967 oversaw the structural completion of the Washington landmark that is the largest Catholic church in the Americas, died April 21 of a kidney ailment...
		The Most Rev. Thomas W. Lyons, 64, the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Washington for the last 14 years, died yesterday at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore of complications of hepatitis resulting from a blood transfusion during surgery after an auto accident in April...
	www.bookrags.com /Thomas_Coke_(bishop) (138 words)

	Methodist Churches
		Methodist, similar to the Church of England, are Arminian theologically.
		Methodists practice baptism of both adults and infants, usually by sprinkling, and Communion as symbols of faith.
		United Methodists still practice “circuit ministry” where pastors are reassigned on a rotating basis to other churches based on certain criteria.
	www.lillianumc.org /methodist_churches.htm (979 words)

	November 3: Thomas Coke; Christian History Institute
		When John Wesley ordained Thomas Coke, it was with the understanding that he would ordain Asbury to be a superintendent of the American church.
		Thomas confided his mission to Asbury and a few others, and all agreed that a conference should be held.
		But Thomas Coke achieved the purpose for which he had come to the United States: to establish a legitimate authority to head the American Methodists.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2002/11/daily-11-03-2002.shtml (563 words)

	Methodism
		The African Methodist Episcopal is an offspring of the Methodist which was founded by John Wesley in England and America in the eighteenth century.
		The Methodist movement itself began in 1739 when John Wesley, an Anglican, started within the Church of England a movement to improve the spiritual life of his Church.
		The African Methodist Episcopal Church sprang from the American counterpart of the Methodist Church.
	www.brownchapel.org /methodist.html (165 words)

	Thomas Coke - AGES Software
		Coke was born in Brecon, England, the son of a medical practitioner.
		Though remembered primarily as the "Father of Methodist Missions," he was a key figure in the development of Methodism on both sides of the Atlantic in the years before and after Wesley's death.
		Coke also made repeated visits to Ireland and the Continent of Europe, and served as President of the British Conference in 1797 and 1805.
	www.ageslibrary.com /ages_cokes_commentary_2.html (332 words)

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		Coke found Francis Asbury, the only English Methodist missionary to remain in America during the Revolution, he was well in control of the American Methodist, and he largely accepted Asbury's natural authority.
		Coke's contribution to Methodism was less that of innovator than that of a zealous promoter and organizer.
		His greatest contribution was that of promoter of Methodist missions from England and America to Ireland, Africa, the West Indies, and elsewhere during the formative period of Methodist missionary expansion.
	www.matthew548.com /t-coke.html (262 words)

	A heavenly-minded little devil
		Coke married late in life; at age 58 he married Penelope Smith, who shared his evangelistic fervor and liquidated her estate to support missionaries.
		When Thomas Coke was 66 years old, he organized a group of co-workers and sailed for Ceylon to establish a new mission.
		Thomas Coke never arrived in Ceylon; he died on the trip and was buried at sea in the Indian Ocean.
	www.cowart.info /Americana/Coke/Coke.htm (995 words)

	:: THE METHODIST CHURCH IN THE CARIBBEAN AND THE AMERICAS - JAMAICA DISTRICT
		Thomas Coke often called the “Father of Methodist Missions” was born in Wales in 1747.
		Coke graduated Oxford University and became a Clergyman in the Anglican Church in 1770 at age 23.
		MYME Jamaica was formed in June 2006 and comprises a group of Methodist young adults ranging from 18 – 39 years of age, who seek to put their faith into action.
	www.jamaicamethodist.org (375 words)

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