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The Methodist Newsletter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ30672857 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Methodist Newsletter is a newsletter independent of the Methodist Church in Ireland. Published every month except August. It is available by post for from every Methodist Church throughout Ireland. Published in Belfast by the Methodist Publishing Company (Ireland), the editor is Rev. Peter Mercer.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Methodist Newsletter” is open-knowledge reference entry. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Methodist, Newsletter and Open-knowledge, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 45-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Methodist, Newsletter and Open-knowledge is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q30672857.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Methodist Newsletter” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.