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The Reverend John Wesley Hughes founded 바카라사이트 Kentucky Holiness College, a ‘real salvation school’ in 1890. Its founders believed it to be 바카라사이트 ‘first holiness college started in 바카라사이트 US’. It was soon renamed Asbury College, in honour of Methodist preacher and educator Bishop Francis Asbury.
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It became Asbury University in 2010.
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Many of Asbury University’s notable alumni are high-profile clergy and missionaries.
