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John Wesley was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who founded the Methodist movement within the Church of England.
* He was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, on June 17, 1703.
* Wesley was educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford.
* He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1728.
* Wesley traveled to Georgia in 1735 to minister to the colonists.
* He returned to England in 1738 after experiencing a religious conversion.
* Wesley began preaching throughout England and Wales, and his followers came to be known as Methodists.
* Wesley died in London on March 2, 1791.
* The Methodist movement has since become one of the largest Protestant denominations in the world.