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

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle Part of Belief →
J John Nelson Darby — the curate who left, and never stopped moving. He resigned his Wicklow curacy in 1827 rather than require converts to swear allegiance to the crown, and spent the next fifty years travelling Britain, Europe, North America, the West Indies and New Zealand, translating the Bible into English, French and German, and writing thirty-four volumes. Domain Dispensations, the rapture, the ruin of the church, the heavenly callingStanding Read continuously in the Exclusive line; regarded with considerable reserve in the Open Meet them — context →

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

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