are several reasons for the late emergence of Protestantism in Chile, the main the monopoly exercised by the Catholic Church during the colonial period. Along with this, the non-recognition of Latin America as a priority area for evangelism, missions by European Protestants. It was during the nineteenth century in Chile witnessed the first demonstrations organized evangelical, with the arrival of European immigrants to colonize the south, and the arrival of missionaries whose purpose was to evangelize through the establishment of schools.
The rise of evangelical churches in Chilean society just yet. The inclusion of new creeds from abroad, we add the constant schisms, which has been a complex and diverse religious melting pot in which to identify himself an important part of the Chilean population
records in Chile , evangelicals are born with the dawn of our independent homeland in 1811 under the government of Jose Miguel Carrera, is responsible for drawing up a flag and a shield to Mr. Robert Poinsett, the U.S. citizen was a Protestant and became the national emblem the following "post tenebras lux", meaning "after of darkness, light "was not just a phrase independence, was also an allusion to the change that creates Christ in the believer's life.
Don Bernardo O 'Higgins, reforms in government and in 1821 brought European immigrants to Chile, including Don Diego Thompson, who pipe in charge of literacy of the population, was the first Protestant missionary to officially enters country, creating schools that use the system "Lancastrian" where the Bible was used as a syllabus for teaching reading. Also
n at that time was David Trumbull, promoter of major reforms such as marriage law civil, civil registration, cemeteries lay and secular education. One of the best known is John Protestant Canut de Bon, a former English priest who becomes the gospel after reading a New Testament he found in the train station and from that moment becomes the prime mover of the Protestant cause in Serena respected by his congregation but hated by the community as a heretic, one day walking down the street did not get stoned as usual, but a group of children shouted "Canuto", since that day the people of the Gospel is called derogatory way, "Canuto", and although it is an anecdote, it is an honor for us given that the gospel should make their way after rejection, abuse and injustice, to lay cemetery laws, Protestants who died were shot in the Santa Lucia Hill in a clandestine grave or even thrown into the sea, there is a monument erected by Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna that reads "In memory of expatriates from heaven and earth, in this place they lay buried for half a century." Our brothers did not get applause when they went to preach quite the contrary, they were intimidated, trampled by horses. Spitting and insults, was the road traveled by our ancestors, so that today freedom to worship Christ.
certainly more Evangelical Church Chile is the largest Pentecostal Methodist, and
n the foundation of this played a leading role Hoover Pastor Kurk Willis Collins, who arrived in Iquique in 1889. He was later transferred to Valparaiso where he settled in the temple of Oliver Street. His emphasis on the everyday experience of the Holy Spirit more problems than domestic nature of power relations, he meant him and his followers gradually moving away from the Methodist Church and fall prey to a series of allegations by the latter. The conflict exploded at the Annual Conference of the church, held in Valparaiso on February 4, 1909. The charges against Hoover, determined the final distancing himself and his supporters, giving the Methodist Church Quarterly Conference in April of that year.
The rise of evangelical churches in Chilean society just yet. The inclusion of new creeds from abroad, we add the constant schisms, which has been a complex and diverse religious melting pot in which to identify himself an important part of the Chilean population
records in Chile , evangelicals are born with the dawn of our independent homeland in 1811 under the government of Jose Miguel Carrera, is responsible for drawing up a flag and a shield to Mr. Robert Poinsett, the U.S. citizen was a Protestant and became the national emblem the following "post tenebras lux", meaning "after of darkness, light "was not just a phrase independence, was also an allusion to the change that creates Christ in the believer's life.
Don Bernardo O 'Higgins, reforms in government and in 1821 brought European immigrants to Chile, including Don Diego Thompson, who pipe in charge of literacy of the population, was the first Protestant missionary to officially enters country, creating schools that use the system "Lancastrian" where the Bible was used as a syllabus for teaching reading. Also
n at that time was David Trumbull, promoter of major reforms such as marriage law civil, civil registration, cemeteries lay and secular education. One of the best known is John Protestant Canut de Bon, a former English priest who becomes the gospel after reading a New Testament he found in the train station and from that moment becomes the prime mover of the Protestant cause in Serena respected by his congregation but hated by the community as a heretic, one day walking down the street did not get stoned as usual, but a group of children shouted "Canuto", since that day the people of the Gospel is called derogatory way, "Canuto", and although it is an anecdote, it is an honor for us given that the gospel should make their way after rejection, abuse and injustice, to lay cemetery laws, Protestants who died were shot in the Santa Lucia Hill in a clandestine grave or even thrown into the sea, there is a monument erected by Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna that reads "In memory of expatriates from heaven and earth, in this place they lay buried for half a century." Our brothers did not get applause when they went to preach quite the contrary, they were intimidated, trampled by horses. Spitting and insults, was the road traveled by our ancestors, so that today freedom to worship Christ. certainly more Evangelical Church Chile is the largest Pentecostal Methodist, and
n the foundation of this played a leading role Hoover Pastor Kurk Willis Collins, who arrived in Iquique in 1889. He was later transferred to Valparaiso where he settled in the temple of Oliver Street. His emphasis on the everyday experience of the Holy Spirit more problems than domestic nature of power relations, he meant him and his followers gradually moving away from the Methodist Church and fall prey to a series of allegations by the latter. The conflict exploded at the Annual Conference of the church, held in Valparaiso on February 4, 1909. The charges against Hoover, determined the final distancing himself and his supporters, giving the Methodist Church Quarterly Conference in April of that year. Thus was founded the new Pentecostal Methodist Church on 12 September 1909, Hoover being his mentor and pastor.
The growth of the new evangelical church was remarkable even though its members are subjected to ridicule and even persecution before the separation of church and state by the constitution of 1925. Only after the effective date of this letter fundamental Pentecostal Methodist Church was able to obtain legal personality, 30 September 1929. With street preaching, musical accompaniment and approach to the lower strata of the population, gradually became the leading evangelical church in Chile. Despite suffering a schism in 1932 when a group broke away to form the Pentecostal Evangelical Church. One of the most important figures of the Methodist Pentecostal Church in the twentieth century was the pastor Manuel Umaña Salinas, who was General Superintendent between 1933 and 1950, plus first Chilean Pentecostal bishop since 1950. The importance of the Chilean Pentecostal Methodist Church can be seen through the magnificence of its cathedral, which opened 15 December 1974, where since 1975 he held every year the Te Deum Gospel.
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