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By Michael Gryboski, Editor Twitter

Thomas Campbell arrives in the United States – May 28, 1807

Thomas Campbell (1763-1854), a Presbyterian minister from Ireland who played an important role in the Second Great Awakening in the United States and helped to found the Disciples of Christ.
Thomas Campbell (1763-1854), a Presbyterian minister from Ireland who played an important role in the Second Great Awakening in the United States and helped to found the Disciples of Christ. | Public Domain

This week marks the anniversary of when Thomas Campbell, a Presbyterian minister from Ireland who helped foster a major revival movement in the United States, first arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Shortly after arriving, Campbell was assigned to Chartiers Presbytery in Washington County, but found himself at odds with synod leadership and eventually ended up leading a different church.

Campbell is credited with helping to foster the Second Great Awakening, a major Christian revival movement in the 19th century, as well as helping to found the Disciples of Christ denomination.

“The Campbell wing of the movement was launched when Thomas Campbell published the Declaration and Address of the Christian Association of Washington in 1809,” noted the Disciples’ website.

“In The Declaration and Address he set forth some of his convictions about the church of Jesus Christ, as he organized the Christian Association of Washington, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, not as a church but as an association of persons seeking to grow in faith.”

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