The Methodist Church in Brazil was founded by American missionaries in 1867.
The Methodist Episcopal Church in the US brought Methodism to Brazil in 1835; however, missionaries left in 1841 due to lack of funding.
Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church (South) returned in 1867 with a view to preaching to Confederate expatriates who had settled in Brazil at the close of the American Civil War.
By 1880 the church included Brazilian members and pastors.
[3] In 2023, the head of the church is Bishop Adonias Pereira do Lago.