Christianity • Protestantism The Wesleyan Reform Union is an independent Methodist Connexion founded in 1859 and based in the United Kingdom.
[2] The expelled ministers and first leaders of the Wesleyan Reformers were James Everett, William Griffith and Samuel Dunn.
[2] In 1857, the major part of the Wesleyan Reformers joined other Methodist groups to form the United Methodist Free Churches but a minority joined together to establish the Wesleyan Reform Union two years later.
Some churches have had women pastors for a number of years and in 2016 the Union ordained and received a female minister onto its approved list for the first time.
The WRU's headquarters are in Jump, Barnsley,[6] and it has around 100 congregations across Yorkshire, the Midlands, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Cornwall, and Scotland.