George Whitefield

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George Whitefield

British clergyman

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Born:: December 27 [December 16, Old Style], 1714, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England

Died:: September 30, 1770, Newburyport, Massachusetts [U.S.] (aged 55)

Role In:: Great Awakening

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George Whitefield (born December 27 [December 16, Old Style], 1714, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England—died September 30, 1770, Newburyport, Massachusetts [U.S.]) was a Church of England evangelist who, by his popular preaching, stimulated the 18th-century Protestant revival throughout Britain and in the British American colonies. In his school and college days Whitefield experienced a strong religious awakening that he called a “new birth.” At Oxford he became an intimate of the Methodists John and Charles Wesley, and at their invitation he joined them in their missionary work in the colony of Georgia in 1738. He was already known as an eloquent evangelist. ...(100 of 159 words)

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