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

Rites & Ritual

what its people do — and when Part of Practice →
Weekly
The Breaking of Bread — nobody presides. A room, a table, a loaf, a cup, and an hour in which any brother present may speak, pray or give out a hymn as he is moved, or nobody may. There is no minister, no liturgy, no rota and no announcement, and the silence is not awkward to the people in it. When Weekly — the Breaking of Bread every Sunday morningWho Those received at the table; in most Open assemblies, any believer in fellowship Go deeper — context →

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

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