Albright Brethren

Albright Brethren, The (known as the Evangelical Association); "a body of American Christians chiefly of German descent", founded, in 1800, by the Rev. Jacob Albright, a native of Pennsylvania (1759–1808). The association is Arminian in doctrine and theology; in its form of church government, Methodist Episcopal. It numbers 148,506 members, not including children, with 1,804 ministers and 2,043 churches, in the United States, Canada, and Germany.

Bibliography: Gess, Der Methodismus und die evang. Kirche Würtenberg (Ludwigsburg, 1876); Hundhauben in Kirchenlex., I, 423.

By Francis W. Grey.