question: Many prominent early leaders of the Methodist Church are known to have preached at Dudley's Chapel including a bishop who traveled to America in what year?
answer: 1771
context: Title: Centenary Methodist Church, Hyderabad
  Passage: MCI-Centenary Methodist Church is a church compound located at Chapel road, Abids housing two of the most prominent churches in the city.  It is a Protestant Church and is under the auspices of Methodist Church in India.  It was built in the 1970s in order to accommodate the increasing number of Methodists in the city.  It is currently the largest church in Hyderabad in terms of seating capacity.  The church shares its premises with its predecessor the Methodist chapel which was built in 1817.  This church which is popularly known as the Methodist Chapel of Chapel Road was established by the missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  The church has been frequently visited by politicians during Christmas Services including Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao, Chief minister of Telangana and Chandrababu Naidu, former Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.  The church offers services in Telugu, English, Hindi, Marathi and Kannada.
  Title: Suncreek United Methodist Church
  Passage: Suncreek United Methodist Church is a United Methodist Church in Allen, Texas, part of the North Texas Conference of the UMC.  In June of 1995, Rev. Burt Palmer was appointed to begin a new United Methodist Church in Allen.  By September of that year, three families were gathering to worship at the parsonage.  The group grew, and by the end of that year, Sunday morning worship moved to Green Elementary School.  Then, on September 22, 1996, Suncreek was officially constituted as a United Methodist Church.  In early 1999, the church began to build on property at Suncreek and McDermott Drives.   This involved renovating a home that was on the site and adding additional rooms for a Sanctuary and classes.   In September 1999, the church left Green Elementary and began meeting in the new buildings.  Rev. Kathleen Baskin-Ball was appointed Senior Pastor of Suncreek in June 2001.  The following May, the church gathered for a Sunday morning worship service under a large tent to kickoff a capital campaign that would purchase land, renovate the existing building, erect a new building and Sanctuary, and add parking.  One year later, the church broke ground on this phase of its development.  The new building was completed in April 2004 and consecrated by Bishop William B. Oden on May 23, 2004.  In early 2007, Rev. Kathleen Baskin-Ball was diagnosed with cancer.  Despite the challenges of her illness and treatment, she continued to lead, serve and love the congregation until her death on December 2, 2008.  One of Kathleen’s favorite ministerial duties was performing baptisms.   We desire to remember her with the beautiful Garden in our esplanade just south of the breezeway connecting the sanctuary with the children’s area.  Rev. Dr. Thomas O. Palmer was appointed as Senior Pastor in June, 2009 and served until June, 2013.   He now serves as Senior Pastor of Coppell United Methodist Church.  Rev. Dr. Keith Payne Boone was appointed as Senior Pastor in June, 2013 and served until June, 2016.  He now serves as Senior Pastor of University Park United Methodist Church in Dallas.  Rev. Dr. Barry Hughes was appointed as Senior Pastor in June, 2016.
  Title: Francis Asbury
  Passage: Francis Asbury ( ; August 20 or 21, 1745 – March 31, 1816) was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States.  As a young man in October 1771, the Englishman traveled to America and, during his 45 years there, he devoted his life to ministry, traveling on horseback and by carriage thousands of miles to those living on the frontier.
  Title: Ordination of women in Methodism
  Passage: Methodist views on the ordination of women in the rite of holy orders are diverse.  Some Methodist denominations practice the ordination of women, such as in the United Methodist Church (UMC), in which the ordination of women has occurred since its creation in 1968, as well as in the Free Methodist Church (FMC), which ordained its first woman elder in 1911, in the Methodist Church of Great Britain, which ordained its first female deacon in 1890 and ordained its first female elders (that is, presbyters) in 1974, and in the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches.  Other Methodist denominations do not ordain women, such as the Southern Methodist Church (SMC), Evangelical Methodist Church of America, Fundamental Methodist Conference, and Primitive Methodist Church (PMC), the latter of which does not does not ordain women as elders nor does it license them as pastors or local preachers; the PMC does, however, consecrate women as deaconesses.  Independent Methodist parishes that are registered with the Association of Independent Methodists do not permit the ordination of women to holy orders.
  Title: Meridian Street United Methodist Church
  Passage: Meridian Street United Methodist Church, known in its early years as Wesley Chapel, the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Meridian Street Methodist Church, is a Methodist church located at 5500 North Meridian Street in Indianapolis, Indiana.  The church originated from the first Methodist congregation in Indianapolis that began in a log cabin in 1821–22 with fifty members.  The congregation worshipped at several locations and erected four earlier churches on Monument Circle and along Meridian Street in downtown Indianapolis before it merged with the Fifty-first Street Methodists in 1945.  The first service at its North Meridian Street location was held on June 29, 1952.  Designed by the architectural firm of Russ and Harrison, the Georgian-Colonial-style, red-brick church is noted for its architecture, pipe organ (one of the city’s largest), and formal parlor.  The Aldersgate addition on the west side (rear) of the church was consecrated on October 4, 1989.
  Title: Connexionalism
  Passage: Connexionalism, or connectionalism, is the theological understanding and foundation of Methodist church governance ("ecclesiastical polity"), as practised in the Methodist Church of Great Britain, the Methodist Church in Ireland, the American United Methodist Church, African Methodist Episcopal Church, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and many of the countries where Methodism was established by missionaries sent out from these Churches.  In the American church, where bishops provide church leadership, connexionalism is a variety of episcopal polity; however, in some countries the title of bishop may be used without any change in the Connexional polity.  In world Methodism, a given Connexion is usually autonomous.
  Title: Finis Alonzo Crutchfield, Jr.
  Passage: Finis Alonzo Crutchfield, Jr. ((1916--) 22, 1916 – (1987--) 21, 1987 ) was a noted American clergyman and a bishop in the United Methodist Church.  He began his pastoral career after graduating from Duke University Divinity School in 1940.  His first assignment was First United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  He remained there until he was sent to Norman, Oklahoma, in 1950.  Ten years later he became senior pastor at Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa.  He was credited with bringing Oral Roberts into the Methodist Church (although Roberts later left) and served as a negotiator in the 1968 merger of the Methodist Church with the Evangelical United Brethren Church.
  Title: Justin Nzoyisaba
  Passage: Bishop Justin Nzoyisaba is the Legal Representative and the Bishop of the United Methodist Church of Burundi.  The Reverend Justin Nzoyisaba was Consecrated to the episcopate in full apostolic succession on Sunday, December 7, 2008 by bishop Jupa Kaberuka of the United Methodist Church of Rwanda (Bishop of the Christian Communion International), Bishop Dr. Elie Buconyori of the Free Methodist Church of Burundi, Bishop Pascal Benimana of the Moravian Church of Burundi, Bishop Dieudonne Nitonde of the Charismatic Episcopal Church of Burundi and Bishop Simeon Nzishura of the African Protestant Evangelical Elim Church.
  Title: Prince Albert Taylor, Jr.
  Passage: Prince Albert Taylor Jr. (January 27, 1907 – August 15, 2001) was an American Bishop of The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church, elected in 1956.  When he died he held the distinction of the longest tenure of all living United Methodist Bishops at that time.  Only one other Bishop remained from those elected in 1956: Bishop Ralph Edward Dodge.  And as it happened, Bishop Dodge was but two days older than Bishop Taylor!  No other Bishops elected before 1956 were alive in 2001.  Bishop Taylor was also one of only three remaining African American Bishops elected by the of The Methodist Church.  The others were James Samuel Thomas and L. Scott Allen.
  Title: Dudley's Chapel
  Passage: Dudley's Chapel is a historic Methodist church located at Sudlersville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland.  It was built in 1783 and is a simple brick structure with a moderately pitched gable roof.  A coat of stucco was added in 1883, covering all of the original brickwork.  The chapel has a prominent place in the early history of the Methodist Church in Maryland.  It is one of the earliest surviving Methodist churches in Maryland, and was the first Methodist church built in Queen Anne's County.  Many of the prominent early leaders of the Methodist Church are known to have preached both at Dudley's including Francis Asbury, Thomas Coke, Richard Whatcoat, Jesse Lee, and Freeborn Garrettson.
citations: Dudley's Chapel Francis Asbury