Thomas Coke
✓ Source-basedfallingWelsh-American clergyman (1747-1814); Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Thomas Coke was the first Methodist bishop. Born in Brecon, Wales, he was ordained as a priest in 1772, but expelled from his Anglican pulpit of South Petherton for being a Methodist. Coke met John Wesley in 1776.
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![The house in which Dr. Coke commenced the Jamaica Mission (May 1852)[3]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/The_house_in_which_Dr._Coke_commenced_the_Jamaica_Mission_%28May_1852%2C_p.55%2C_IX%29_-_Copy.jpg/1280px-The_house_in_which_Dr._Coke_commenced_the_Jamaica_Mission_%28May_1852%2C_p.55%2C_IX%29_-_Copy.jpg)
![Coke Chapel, Kingston, Jamaica (April 1852)[4]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Coke_Chapel%2C_Kingston%2C_Jamaica_%28IX%2C_April_1852%2C_p.42%29_-_Copy.jpg/1280px-Coke_Chapel%2C_Kingston%2C_Jamaica_%28IX%2C_April_1852%2C_p.42%29_-_Copy.jpg)
Religious Figures born in the 1740s 6
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Thomas Coke was the first Methodist bishop. Born in Brecon, Wales, he was ordained as a priest in 1772, but expelled from his Anglican pulpit of South Petherton for being a Methodist. Coke met John Wesley in 1776. He later co-founded Methodism in America and then established the Methodist missions overseas, which in the 19th century spread around the world.
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