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Fire Baptized Holiness Church (Wesleyan) (1890 - 1995) - Religious Group

Religious Family: Holiness
Religious Tradition: Evangelical Protestant
Description: The Fire Baptized Holiness Church (Wesleyan) was established in 1890 by members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of southeastern Kansas. Originally the Southeast Kansas Fire Baptized Holiness Association, the group renamed itself to the Fire Baptized Holiness Church (Wesleyan) in 1945, taking its present title, Bible Holiness Church, in 1995.
Official Site: Not available

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Maps: Fire Baptized Holiness Church (Wesleyan)1

Adherence Rate per 1,000 (1990)

Congregations (2020)



Top 5 Fire Baptized Holiness Church (Wesleyan) States (1990)1 [View all States]

Rank State Congregations Adherents Adherence Rate
1 Kansas 15 373 0.15
2 Missouri 13 297 0.06
3 Oklahoma 5 80 0.03
4 Arkansas 1 22 0.01
5 Arizona 3 16 0.00

Top 5 Fire Baptized Holiness Church (Wesleyan) Counties (1990)1 [View all Counties]

Rank County Congregations Adherents Adherence Rate
1 Lincoln County, MO 4 162 5.61
2 Montgomery County, KS 5 191 4.92
3 Labette County, KS 3 97 4.09
4 Montgomery County, MO 2 43 3.79
5 Neosho County, KS 1 28 1.64

Top 5 Fire Baptized Holiness Church (Wesleyan) Metro Areas (1990)1 [View all Metro Areas]

Rank Metro Congregations Adherents Adherence Rate
1 Coffeyville, KS Micro Area 5 191 4.92
2 Parsons, KS Micro Area 3 97 4.09
3 Bartlesville, OK Micro Area 2 45 0.94
4 Mexico, MO Micro Area 1 14 0.59
5 Miami, OK Micro Area 1 16 0.52

Fire Baptized Holiness Church (Wesleyan), Members (1950 - 1992)2


Fire Baptized Holiness Church (Wesleyan), Ministers & Churches (1950 - 1992)2


Fire Baptized Holiness Church (Wesleyan), Trends (1950 - 1992)2

YEAR MEMBERS MINISTERS CHURCHES
1950 1,200 45
1952 1,000 71 50
1953 1,000 69 46
1954 975 68 52
1955 974 75 52
1956 1,011 75 52
1957 1,007 82 53
1958 988 82 53
1991 695 64 49
1992 692 67 49
       

Sources

1 The 2020 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include data for 372 religious bodies or groups. Of these, the ASARB was able to gather data on congregations and adherents for 217 and on congregations only for 155. [More information on the data sources]

2 All data on clergy, members, and churches are taken from the National Council of Churches’ Historic Archive CD and recent print editions of the Council’s Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. The CD archives all 68 editions of the Yearbook (formerly called Yearbook of the Churches and Yearbook of American Churches) from 1916 to 2000. Read more information on the Historic Archive CD and the Yearbook.

Membership figures are "inclusive." According to the Yearbook, this includes "those who are full communicant or confirmed members plus other members baptized, non-confirmed or non-communicant." Each denomination has its own criteria for membership.

When a denomination listed on the Historic Archive CD was difficult to identify, particularly in early editions of the Yearbook, the ARDA staff consulted numerous sources, including Melton’s Encyclopedia of American Religions and the Handbook of Denominations in the United States. In some cases, ARDA staff consulted the denomination’s website or contacted its offices by phone. When a denomination could not be positively identified, its data were omitted.

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