This is Wikipedia's community-edited article on the African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the oldest independent Black Christian denominations in the United States. Its value is accessibility and continuous updating by many contributors, useful for standard, uncontroversial facts such as founding dates, structure and historical milestones that are easy to check against other sources. Its limit is the one that applies to any crowd-edited reference, it carries no formal peer review and its quality varies by section and by how recently a given passage was revised, so a specific or contested historical claim about the denomination should be checked against a dedicated scholarly history of the AME Church rather than relied on from this article alone.
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A continuously revised, community-edited encyclopedia article rather than an authored or peer reviewed work, matching this corpus's settled precedent for Wikipedia citations, useful for verifiable factual detail rather than as independent scholarly authority. NotesWikipedia's article on African Methodist Episcopal Church. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about African Methodist Episcopal Church (biographical detail, dates, common definitions), not as the source for a contested or specialist scholarly claim.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Methodist_Episcopal_Church
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This source names African Methodist Episcopal Church directly: "community-edited article on the African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the oldest independent Black Christian denominations in the United States."
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This source backs 49 claims across the atlas. As facts: 37 well-attested. As cited relationships: 6 holds. Plus 6 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Denominations, 20 claims: 18 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sacred Sites, 11 claims: 10 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Doctrines, 6 claims: 3 holds, 3 general references.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
- Spread Events, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
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