The Methodist Church in Ireland

The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by God’s love who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world.  

The Methodist Church in Ireland is a Connexion of around 200 churches spread across the whole island of Ireland, across both jurisdictions North and South.

The Methodist Church is a worldwide communion of over 70 million people which originated from the time of the Wesley brothers, John and Charles, in the mid-eighteenth century. John was ordained by the Church of England and he and his hymn writer brother Charles, were members of a group of young men who met daily to pray and study the Bible whilst at Oxford University. Nicknamed “the Holy Club”, they were so methodical in their lifestyle that they were called Methodists, a name which eventually became that of the religious movement which followed.

Read more at: https://www.irishmethodist.org