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B2.1301 Old Order Amish Mennonite Church (1862, Aylmer, Ontario, Canada;
strictly conservative and maintain the horse-and-buggy culture of the
original Amish immigrants from Europe; there are scattered rural
colonies throughout the USA and Canada; some of the most well-known
are the Old Order Amish colonies of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania)
B2.1302 Conservative Mennonite Conference (1910, Grantsville, MD)
B2.1303 Beachy Amish Mennonite Conference (1923, Plain City, OH)
B2.1399 Other Amish groups
B2.14 FRIENDS/QUAKER CHURCHES (English roots: George Fox, 1647;
Rhode Island Colony, 1661; William Penn, 1680s--founded the Colony of
Pennsylvania)
B2.1401 Quakers or Society of Friends (1647, George Fox, England)
B2.1402 Annual Meetings or Conferences of Friends (Quakers) in the USA,
examples:
B2.14021 Philadelphia Annual Meeting of Friends (1681, Philadelphia, PA; the
Colony of Pennsylvania was established in 1681 by William Penn as a
refuge for the Quakers of England who were being persecuted for their
religious convictions and practices)
B2.14022 Ohio Annual Meeting of Friends (1813, Barnesville, OH - conservatives)
B2.14023 Mid-America Region Annual Meeting of Friends (1872, originally
called the Kansas Annual Meeting of Friends)
B2.14024 Northwestern Region Annual Meeting of Friends (1893, Oregon;
George Fox College, Newberg, Oregon)
B2.14025 Central Region Annual Meeting of Friends (1926, Alexandria, IN – conservatives)
B2.14026 Pacific Annual Meeting of Friends (1931, Los Altos, CA; "unprogrammed"
– spontaneous meetings)
B2.1403 Friends United Meeting (1863, Richmond, IN; this includes 27 Annual
Meetings that represents about half of the total number of Friends in the
world that are part of the "orthodox" tradition; affiliated with the National
Council of Churches [NCC] in the USA and with the World Council of
Churches [WCC] internationally).
B2.1404 Friends General Conference (1900, Philadelphia, PA; this includes 14
Annual Conferences of the "unprogrammed" tradition in the USA that are
associated with Elias Hicks (1748-1830), known as the leader of the
"Inner Light" movement in the 1820s.
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