Charles Fox Parham | |
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![]() Pioneer of Pentecostalism | |
Born | Muscatine, Iowa, U.S. | June 4, 1873
Died | January 29, 1929 Baxter Springs, Kansas, U.S. | (aged 55)
Occupation | Evangelist |
Spouse(s) | Sarah Thistlewaite, 1896–1929, (his death) |
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Charles Fox Parham (June 4, 1873 – January 29, 1929) was an American preacher and evangelist. Together with William J. Seymour, Parham was one of the two central figures in the development and initial spread of early Pentecostalism, known as Holiness Pentecostalism. It was Parham who associated glossolalia with the baptism in the Holy Spirit, a theological connection crucial to the emergence of Pentecostalism as a distinct movement. Parham was the first preacher to articulate Pentecostalism's distinctive doctrine of evidential tongues, and to expand the movement.