32. The Protestant Episcopal Church is a well-known offshoot of the church established by the British Parliament in England.
Their numbers and growth have been as follows:
| Ministers. | Churches. | Members. | |
| 1859 | 2,030 | 2,111 | 135,767 |
| 1862 | 2,270 | 2,327 | 160,612 |
| 1863 | 1,772 | 1,617 | 111,093[25] |
| 1864 | 1,895 | 1,741 | 143,854[25] |
| 1865 | 2,467 | 2,322 | 154,118 |
| 1866 | 2,530 | 2,305 | 161,224 |
| 1867 | 2,600 | 2,370 | 178,102 |
| 1868 | 2,736 | 2,472 | 194,692 |
| 1869 | 2,762 | 2,512 | 200,000 |
The average annual increase during the last nine years has been as follows:
| Ministers. | Churches. | Members. |
| 78 | 40 | 6,536 |
33. Another large class of denominations is embraced under the general term "Methodism." The first denomination, out of which all the others have sprung, was an offshoot of the Church of England, known in this country as the Protestant Episcopal Church.
The statistics of the denomination have been as follows:
| Preachers. | Members. | |
| 1773 | 10 | 1,160 |
| 1783 | 83 | 13,740 |
| 1793 | 269 | 67,643 |
| 1803 | 393 | 86,734 |
| 1813 | 700 | 214,307 |
| 1823 | 1,226 | 312,540 |
| 1833 | 2,400 | 599,736 |
| 1843 | 4,286 | 1,068,525 |
| 1850 | 3,716 | 629,660[26] |
| 1859 | 6,502 | 971,498 |
| 1862 | — | 942,906 |
| 1863 | 5,885 | 923,394 |
| 1864 | — | 928,320 |
| 1865 | 6,121 | 925,285 |
| 1866 | 6,287 | 1,032,184[27] |
| 1867 | 8,004 | 1,146,081 |
| 1868 | 8,481 | 1,255,115 |
| 1869 | 8,830 | 1,298,938 |
The average annual increase since the separation of the South, and during seventeen years, has been 30,377. Since the close of the war conferences have been organized in eight of the Southern states, and 100,000 members gained from the church South.
34. A secession took place in 1830 from the Methodists, and the persons who composed it assumed the name of the "Methodist Protestant Church." Its statistics have been as follows: