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George Whitefield

English cleric and preacher (–)

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George Whitefield (; 27 December&#;[O.S.

16 December]&#;&#;&#; 30 September ), also known as George Whitfield, was an English Anglican minister and preacher who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement.^[1] Born in Gloucester, he matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford in There, he joined the "Holy Club" and was introduced to John and Charles Wesley, with whom he would work closely in his later ministry.

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Unlike the Wesleys, he embraced Calvinism.

Whitefield was ordained after receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree. He immediately began preaching, but he did not settle as the minister of any Church of Englandparish; rather, he became an itinerant preacher and evangelist.

In , Whitefield traveled to British North America where he preached a series of Christian revivals that became p