The Argentine Evangelical Methodist Church ( Spanish: Iglesia Evangélica Metodista Argentina) is a member of the World Council of Churches and has 8,940 members and 123 congregations. [1] While autonomous, the denomination is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. [2]
In 1836, the Methodist Episcopal Church decided to send missionaries to Buenos Aires. Earlier Methodist bodies, resulting from the missions, merged to form the Evangelical Methodist Church in Argentina in 1969. [1]
Women are able to be ordained in the denomination. [3] The church has "given, on a national level, freedom to each congregation to accompany...[same-sex] couples. [They] give freedom of action to be able to bless them". [4] In an episcopal letter, Bishop Frank de Nully Brown shared that the church opposes any kind of secular or religions discrimination. [5]