John Wesley
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John Wesley 🇬🇧

John Wesley (Known as "Founder of Methodism")
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Born Jun 28, 1703 🇬🇧 Epworth (Lincolnshire), Kingdom of England
Passed Away Mar 02, 1791 London, Kingdom of Great Britain
Lifespan 87 years old
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Archival Overview

English cleric and theologian whose Aldersgate experience, open-air preaching, and Holy Club founded the worldwide Methodist movement and transformed 18th-century British society.

Biographical Record

John Wesley (1703–1791 CE) led the Holy Club at Oxford before experiencing his famous conversion at Aldersgate in 1738 ('I felt my heart strangely warmed').

Barred from Anglican pulpits, he took to the fields, traveling 250,000 miles on horseback and preaching 40,000 sermons to coal miners and factory laborers, while relentlessly opposing the African slave trade.

Key Life Milestones

1738

The Aldersgate Experience

Experienced assurance of salvation through faith in Christ during a reading of Luther's Preface to Romans in London.

1739

Inauguration of Field Preaching in Bristol

Followed George Whitefield into open-air preaching to common laborers, declaring: 'The world is my parish.'

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Wesley's Chapel Yard
London, United Kingdom
GPS: 51.5242, -0.0869
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