Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, or simply Philadelphia Yearly Meeting or PYM, is the central organizing body for Quaker meetings in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA area.
PYM is one of the oldest Yearly meetings in the Religious Society of Friends. It divided into two meetings in the Hicksite/Orthodox schism in 1827, each meeting claiming the title of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. In this period the two meetings were known by the location of their respective meetinghouses (Race Street and Arch Street). The schism was healed and the two meetings reunited in 1955. The Yearly Meeting is a member of Friends General Conference, the main national organization of unprogrammed Quaker meetings.
Westtown School, founded before the schism, and Haverford College became the educational mainstays of the Orthodox meeting.
George School and Swarthmore College were founded to provide education for Hicksite students. While the schools remain under the indirect supervision of the Yearly Meeting, both are functionally and financially independent of the Yearly Meeting, as are other Friends Schools in the area; they may be governed by members of the Society of Friends, but are structurally independent of the Monthly and Yearly Meetings. The colleges have no formal relationship with the Meeting.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting holds annual sessions for business to which all Friends in the Philadelphia area are asked to come. These meetings, generally held in March at the Arch Street Friends Meeting House, are an opportunity for Friends to hear about the goings-on in PYM over the previous year, and other yearly meetings that have sent news.
External links
* [http://www.pym.org Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's web site]
* [http://www.pym.org/youngfriends Young Friends: The high school age youth group of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting]
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