Methodism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Brazil==== The [[Methodist Church in Brazil]] was founded by American missionaries in 1867 after an initial unsuccessful founding in 1835. It has grown steadily since, becoming autonomous in 1930. In the 1970s it ordained its first woman minister. In 1975 it also founded the first Methodist university in Latin America, the [[Methodist University of Piracicaba]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Conheça a Unimep – Histórico |url=http://unimep.edu.br/a-unimep/conheca-a-unimep |website=Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba |access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref> {{As of|2011}}, the Brazilian Methodist Church is divided into eight annual conferences with 162,000 members.<ref name="Yrigoyen">{{cite book|last1=Yrigoyen|first1=Charles|last2=Warrick|first2=Susan E.|title=Historical Dictionary of Methodism|date=2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0810878945|page=219|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aWUYAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA219|language=en}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page