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Francis Asbury

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Methodist bishop in America (1745-1816)

Religious FiguresLived 1745 to 1816 · aged 70
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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.

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Bishop Asbury Cottage, Asbury's boyhood home at Great BarrBishop Asbury Cottage, Asbury's boyhood home at Great BarrThe Ordination of Bishop Asbury, an engraving of an 1882 painting of the sceneThe Ordination of Bishop Asbury, an engraving of an 1882 painting of the sceneFrancis Asbury MemorialFrancis Asbury MemorialCharles Wesley, John Wesley, and Francis Asbury (stained glass), Memorial Chapel, Lake Junaluska, NCCharles Wesley, John Wesley, and Francis Asbury (stained glass), Memorial Chapel, Lake Junaluska, NC

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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.

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deceased
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Lived 1745 to 1816 · aged 70
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