The Plymouth Brethren

Movement·Founded 1827 CE·Unknowable by design. The Open Brethren keep no central roll — assemblies are autonomous and many list themselves as no more than a Gospel Hall — and the various Exclusive connexions publish nothing except the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, which reports just over 55,000. Estimates for the whole movement run to well over a million worldwide, heavily weighted toward India, Africa and Latin America, and none of them is from a source that counts.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → The Plymouth Brethren → 1 branch

ArchiveSTEM Publishing — the Darby, Kelly and Mackintosh corpusArchiveMyBrethren — early Brethren history and ministry

Branch
Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 2 You × The Plymouth Brethren Discussion

How to Live

the ethic — what it asks of a life
Separation — and the argument over how far it reaches. Everyone agreed that separation from the denominations was required. What split the movement in 1848 was whether a person from an assembly holding error is thereby defiled, so that receiving him defiles you too. The Exclusive answer was yes, and the logic of it has been running ever since. Go deeper — context →

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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