Methodist Episcopal Church, South
The Methodist Episcopal Church, South was the so-called "Southern Methodist Church" resulting from the split in the Methodist Episcopal Church which had been brewing over several years until it came out into the open at a conference held in Louisville, Kentucky in 1845. This body maintained its own polity until it merged with the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant Church to form the Methodist Church in 1939, which in turn later (1968) merged with the Evangelical United Brethren to form the United Methodist Church. Conservative Southern congregations dissenting from the merger formed the Southern Methodist Church in 1940.
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