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*Also known as the [http://www.oll.state.oh.us/your_state/remarkable_ohio/marker_details.cfm?marker_id=1094 Campbellites] Alexander Campbell was the founder of the Disciples of Christ Church.<ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/> | *Also known as the [http://www.oll.state.oh.us/your_state/remarkable_ohio/marker_details.cfm?marker_id=1094 Campbellites] Alexander Campbell was the founder of the Disciples of Christ Church.<ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/> | ||
====East Orthodox==== | ====East Orthodox==== | ||
* Many people from Greece landed in New York, some stayed there yet others went farther west into Ohio. Many Greeks are of the Eastern Orthodox Faith. The Greek Community rented various halls for their Church services with visiting priests from New York and other eastern cities would come to perform church services and celebrate Mass with them. The largest concentrations of Greeks were in the industrial centers of the state, such as Cleveland, Toledo, Youngstown, Canton, Akron and Columbus. | * Many people from Greece landed in New York, some stayed there yet others went farther west into Ohio. Many Greeks are of the Eastern Orthodox Faith. The Greek Community rented various halls for their Church services with visiting priests from New York and other eastern cities would come to perform church services and celebrate Mass with them. The largest concentrations of Greeks were in the industrial centers of the state, such as Cleveland, Toledo, Youngstown, Canton, Akron and Columbus. The first permanent priests who came to these Ohio communities had also migrated from Greece. They were the missionaries of the Greek Church in America. They were delegated with the double duty of teaching religion and perpetuating the Greek language.<ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/> | ||
The first permanent priests who came to these Ohio communities had also migrated from Greece. They were the missionaries of the Greek Church in America. They were delegated with the double duty of teaching religion and perpetuating the Greek language.<ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/> | |||
====Protestant Episcopal==== | ====Protestant Episcopal==== | ||
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*[http://surnamearchive.com/document/stjacob.htm St. Jacob' s Evangelical Lutheran Church] | *[http://surnamearchive.com/document/stjacob.htm St. Jacob' s Evangelical Lutheran Church] | ||
====Evangelical Mennonite==== | ====Evangelical Mennonite==== | ||
*Mennonites had migrated to the United States and Canada in search for religious freedom. The actual founding of the movement was originally spearheaded by a body of Zwinglian dissenters in Zurich, Switzerland. Jacob Rupp of Archbold, | *Mennonites had migrated to the United States and Canada in search for religious freedom. The actual founding of the movement was originally spearheaded by a body of Zwinglian dissenters in Zurich, Switzerland. Jacob Rupp of Archbold, and later Abraham Steiner of Bluffton, became leaders of Evangelical Mennonite Church in Ohio. This movement began in the years 1864-66. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/> | ||
====Evangelical United Brethren==== | ====Evangelical United Brethren==== | ||
*The Evangelical United Brethren Church, was established in 1926 by combining two known as The Evangelical Church and The Church of the United Brethren in Christ. | |||
====Evangelical and Reformed==== | ====Evangelical and Reformed==== | ||
*Preaching in Montgomery, Preble and Warren Counties, Rev. John Jacob La Rose came to Ohio from North Carolina. His preaching began in 1805, then in 1809 he organized St. John Church at Germantown. Rev. Thomas Winters became the pastor in Germantown in 1815, and organized congregations in Miami Valley were he also served as Pastor. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/> | |||
====Friends==== | ====Friends==== | ||
*The [http://www.earlham.edu/~libr/content/friends/obituaries/index.html American Friend Obituary Index] The American Friend, published between 1894 and 1960. Information might include, maiden names of women, parents, survivors, dates and places of birth and marriage, meeting affiliation, and previous residences. | *The [http://www.earlham.edu/~libr/content/friends/obituaries/index.html American Friend Obituary Index] The American Friend, published between 1894 and 1960. Information might include, maiden names of women, parents, survivors, dates and places of birth and marriage, meeting affiliation, and previous residences.<ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/> | ||
====Churches of God==== | ====Churches of God==== | ||
*Families from Pennsylvania Churches of God were settling in Ohio in 1830. Beery, Sherrick, Beidler, Funck, Metzler, and Hartman were some the families that emigrated to Wayne County with Joseph Adams as their preacher. In 1834 Thomas Hickernell and Jacob Keller were appointed to the Ohio Circuit.<ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/> | |||
====Church of God in Christ==== | ====Church of God in Christ==== | ||
* The Church of God in Christ had it's first official state conference in Fairport, Ohio on Oct. 29 1857.<ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/> | |||
====Church of God, Pentecostal==== | ====Church of God, Pentecostal==== | ||
*Rev. B. L. Leonard and Robert Cossum established the first congregation of the Church of God Pentecostal in Findlay, Ohio, early in 1907. Rev. Efford Haynes set the church in order in 1909 after arriving in Chillicothe from Cleveland, Tennessee. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/> | |||
====Jewish==== | ====Jewish==== | ||
*Cincinnati had the largest Jewish community in Ohio in 1849, numbering an estimated 4,000 our of a population of 155,00.<ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/> | |||
====Lutheran==== | ====Lutheran==== | ||
*Most of the Lutheran's in early Ohio, spoke only German. They gravitated toward Germantown and Germantown's many townships. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/> | |||
====Mennonite==== | ====Mennonite==== | ||
*Among the first Mennonites to settle in Ohio were Christian Stehman (Stemen) and his family, who came to Fairfield County, Ohio, from Red Stone, Penn., Brennemans from Virginia, the Beerys, the Hubers, the Goods, the Shanks, the Funks, the Gingeriches and more. They began to settle in the Northwest territory in 1803. Henry Stemen, the son of Christian, was ordained to the ministry in 1809. | |||
====Methodist==== | ====Methodist==== | ||
*Francis M'Cormick, John Kobler, Lewis Hunt, Henry Smith, and Colonel Joseph Moore, were all instrumental in establishing the Methodist Faith in Ohio. The first Methodist Church in the Northwest Territory was built on land beside the Scioto Brush Creek in 1800-1801. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/> | |||
====African Methodist Episcopal==== | ====African Methodist Episcopal==== | ||
* August 28, 1830, was the date the Western Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized at Hillsboro, Ohio. There were 15 ministers and 1,194 members that covered the territory west of the Allegheny Mountains. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/> | |||
====A.M.E. Zion Church==== | ====A.M.E. Zion Church==== | ||
*The A. M. E. Zion Church was a offshoot church organized by Bishop J.W. Hood in September of 1891. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/> | |||
====Wesleyan Methodist==== | ====Wesleyan Methodist==== | ||
* [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2454 Wesleyan Methodist Church], the predecessor of the Wesleyan Church of America left the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1843. Strong opposition to slavery was a primary reason for this break-away. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/> | |||
====Moravian==== | ====Moravian==== | ||
*Christian Frederick Post and John Heckewelder had been sent by the [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=609 Moravians] to Ohio in 1764 . They made their first attempt establish a mission near what is now Bolivar, on the Tuscarawas River. David Zeisberger preached to the Delaware Indians | |||
====Church of the Nazarene==== | ====Church of the Nazarene==== | ||
====Church of the New Jerusalem==== | ====Church of the New Jerusalem==== | ||