John Wesley has come to believe by…
February 1784 CE
The Church of England has been disestablished in the United States, where it had been the state church in most of the southern colonies.
The Church of England has not yet appointed a United States bishop to what will become the Protestant Episcopal Church in America.
On February 28, Wesley ordains Thomas Coke as superintendent of Methodists in the United States by the laying on of hands, although Coke is already a priest in the Church of England.
He also ordains Richard Whatcoat and Thomas Vasey as presbyters.
Whatcoat and Vasey sail for America with Coke.
Wesley intends that Coke and Francis Asbury (whom Coke ordains as superintendent by direction of Wesley) should ordain others in the newly founded Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States.
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