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Methodist Church of Southern Africa

A Methodist chapel in Leliefontein, Northern Cape, South Africa.
The Presiding Bishop Rev Pumla Nzimande
The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa The Rev Pumla Nzimande
Albert Street Methodist Church in 1926

The Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) is a large Wesleyan Methodist denomination, with local churches across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini, and a more limited presence in Mozambique. It is a member church of the World Methodist Council.

The church is the largest mainline Protestant denomination in South Africa – 7.3% of the South African population recorded their religious affiliation as 'Methodist' in the last national census.[1] The denomination has nearly 2 million members.[2]

  1. ^ For a discussion of Church membership statistics in South Africa please refer to Forster, D. "God's mission in our context, healing and transforming responses" in Forster, D and Bentley, W. Methodism in Southern Africa: A celebration of Wesleyan Mission. Kempton Park. AcadSA publishers (2008:97–98)
  2. ^ "Methodist Church of Southern Africa — World Council of Churches". www.oikoumene.org. Retrieved 2016-05-20.

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