Primitive Methodist Church

Primitive Methodist Church
Primitive Methodists at Prayer, 1889,
by William Holt Yates Titcomb
ClassificationProtestant
OrientationMethodist
AssociationsWorld Federation of Primitive Methodists
RegionUnited States, Canada, Spain, and Guatemala; with missions elsewhere around the world
FounderHugh Bourne and William Clowes
Origin1807
CongregationsWorldwide 191, USA 63
MembersApprox. 17,300 (worldwide)
Official websiteUSA: primitivemethodistchurch.org

The Primitive Methodist Church is an active Methodist Christian denomination. It originated in early 19th-century England as a revivalist movement within Wesleyan Methodism, having been influenced in part by American evangelist Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834), whose visits inspired a return to fervent, open-air preaching.

In the United States, the Primitive Methodist Church in 2026 has over 60 congregations across 13 eastern states.

In Great Britain and Australia, the Primitive Methodist Church merged with other denominations, in the UK to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain in 1932, and in Australia to form the Methodist Church of Australasia in 1902. The latter subsequently merged into the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977.

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