United Methodist Free Churches was created in 1857.
Free Methodists are an offshoot of Methodism. Free Methodist is not the same as United Methodist.
Free Methodist Church was created in 1860.
Free Methodist Church in Canada was created in 1860.
Free Reformed Churches of Australia was created in 1951.
The term 'free' goes back to a split between groups within the Methodist church. Some felt the Methodists were becoming too institutionalized, like other churches where a family 'purchased' a pew for their family. 'The pews should be 'free' to all' some argued, and this term was used by the group that split off from the main body.
United Free Church of Scotland was created in 1900.
Unlike the Roman Catholic or most Orthodox Churches, Protestant churches allow their ministers to marry. Therefore, within the Methodist Church, ministers are free to marry whom they like.
Urmia Manifesto of the United Free Assyria was created in 1917.
United American Free Will Baptist Church was created in 1887.
United American Free Will Baptist Conference was created in 1968.
The Catholics, the Methodists, the United Church of Christ, there may be more... --from Wikipedia: These Christian denominations are among those that mark Ash Wednesday by holding a service of worship or Mass: * African Methodist Episcopal Church * African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church * Anglican/Episcopal churches (excepting most Sydney Diocese churches) * Individual Baptist churches may hold a service * Church of God (Anderson) * Church of the Nazarene * Some congregations of Community of Christ * Some Free Churches * The Liberal Catholic Church * Lutheran churches * Old Catholic Church * Reformed churches (Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), etc.) * Roman Catholic Church * United Methodist churches * Wesleyan churches The Eastern Orthodox Church does not in general observe Ash Wednesday; instead, Orthodox Great Lent begins on Clean Monday. There are, however, a relatively small number of Orthodox Christians who follow the Western Rite; these do observe Ash Wednesday, although often on a different day from the previously-mentioned denominations, as its date is determined from the Orthodox calculation of Pascha, which may be as much as a month later than the Western observance of Easter.
United Trade Unions of the Free Territory of Trieste was created on 1945-05-08.