Quaker History

How many Quakers are there?

List of Notable Quakers

Like many Christian groups, Quakers never intended to form a new denomination. Their founder, George Fox, was trying to take belief and believers back to the original and pure form of Christianity.  Fox was born in July 1624 in Leicestershire, England, and died in 1691, by which time his movement had 50,000 followers.

In 2016 there were approximately 400,000 Quakers in the world, about half of those live in the Africa.  So we’re a very small communion, and yet we’re across the world.

Use links to the right to explore Quaker History