Methodism

====Mexico====
[[File:MetodistaEpiscopalApizaco.JPG|thumb|A Methodist church in [[Apizaco, Tlaxcala]]]]

The Methodist Church came to [[History of Mexico|Mexico]] in 1872, with the arrival of two Methodist commissioners from the United States to observe the possibilities of evangelistic work in México. In December 1872, Bishop Gilbert Haven arrived in [[Mexico City]]. He was ordered by M. D. William Butler to go to México. Bishop John C. Keener arrived from the [[Methodist Episcopal Church, South]] in January 1873.<ref>John Wesley Butler, ''History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Mexico'' (Theclassics Us, 2013).</ref><ref>Karl M. Schmitt, "American Protestant Missionaries and the Diaz Regime in Mexico: 1876–1911." ''Journal of Church & State'' 25 (1983), p. 253.</ref>

In 1874, M. D. William Butler established the first Protestant Methodist school of México, in [[Puebla]]. The school was founded under the name "Instituto Metodista Mexicano". Today the school is called "Instituto Mexicano Madero". It is still a Methodist school, and it is one of the most elite, selective, expensive and prestigious private schools in the country,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.imm.edu.mx/toledo/ |title=Instituto Mexicano Madero Plantel Centro |publisher=Imm.edu.mx |access-date=19 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523190309/http://www.imm.edu.mx/toledo/ |archive-date=23 May 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> with two campuses in Puebla State, and one in [[Oaxaca]]. A few years later the principal of the school created a Methodist university.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.umad.edu.mx |title=Universidad Madero de Puebla |publisher=Umad.edu.mx |access-date=19 April 2013}}</ref>

On 18 January 1885, the first Annual Conference of the United Episcopal Church of México was established.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Yrigoyen| first=Charles Jr. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/863824633|title=Historical Dictionary of Methodism.|date=2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|others=Susan E. Warrick|isbn=978-0-8108-7894-5|edition=3rd|location=Lanham|oclc=863824633}}</ref>