Various groups which had separated from the Wesleyan Methodists since the death of John Wesley decided to join the parent body in the Methodist Union of 1932. After 1932, the new body was known simply as The Methodist Church. To distinguish this from Methodism in other countries (chiefly the USA), it is now styled the Methodist Church of Great Britain.
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