<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018</dc:coverage><dc:creator>Mills, Frederick V., 1931-</dc:creator><dc:date>2007-04-13</dc:date><dc:description>Encyclopedia article about the Methodist Church in Georgia. Georgia's deep roots in Methodism reach back to the founders of the Methodist movement. Methodism is a major Protestant community in the state, and it includes four historically related denominations (listed in order of size): the United Methodist Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME Church), the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (CME Church), and the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Zion (AME Zion). These four denominations form the Pan-Methodist Commission on Union, created in 1996, and all share the theological beliefs and organizational structure common to Methodists worldwide.</dc:description><dc:format>text/html</dc:format><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:relation>Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.</dc:relation><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:source>Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.</dc:source><dc:subject>Methodist Church--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>Methodist church buildings--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>Christians--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>Protestants--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:title>Methodist Church: Overview</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>