# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-asbury
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:35:29.520Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-asbury"
name: "Francis Asbury"
slug: "francis-asbury"
description: "Francis Asbury was a British-American Methodist minister who became one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. During his 45 years in the colonies and the newly independent United States, he devoted his life to ministry, traveling on horseback and by carriage thousands of miles to those living on the frontier."
tagline: "Methodist bishop in America (1745-1816)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Paradise_-_Francis_Asbury_-_NPG.90.82_-_National_Portrait_Gallery.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1745-08-20"
deathDate: "1816-03-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.870956
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Francis Asbury"
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    title: "Francis Asbury"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump