who started the Jehovah wittness church,And when?

Answer 1

Charles Taze Russell, in the 1870's

It started out as a movement for Bible study and ended up with more schisms than the Catholic Church, resulting in many splinter groups, the largest of which is the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York, which is the Legal Corporation holding the assets of the Jehovah's Witness organization.

The name "Jehovah's Witnesses" wasn't adopted until Judge Rutherford took control of the organization after 3/4 of the people left the church, which occurred a few years after Russell's death.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Student_Movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses

Answer 2

You will have some tell you it was a man named Charles Russell.
He certainly was an important player.
However, if you set up a system in a factory and over time, the system was abused, corrupted and twisted, but years later someone comes along and establishes things the way they were originally ....could it be said that guy STARTED the system?
No.
He simply brought it back to the original.
Jesus started a system, it got corrupted and people like Russell did their best to get back to basics.
We're talking mid 1870's.

Answer 3

Charles Taze Russell started it in the late 1800's in Pittsburg PA. He had gotten under the teaching of some second adventists (later to become 7th day adventists) and Christadephians.

Answer 4

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that their worship is a restoration of biblical Christianity, as practiced by the apostles and first century Christians. They recognize Christ himself (and the apostles to a much lesser extent) as the "foundation" of true Christian worship. Of course, the bible teaches that God Himself is the "builder".

(Isaiah 28:16) Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “Here I am laying as a foundation in Zion a stone, a tried stone, the precious corner of a sure foundation.

(Acts 4:10-11) Jesus Christ the Nazarene... This is ‘the stone that was treated by you builders as of no account that has become the head of the corner.’

(Revelation 21:14) The wall of the city also had twelve foundation stones, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

(Hebrews 11:10) the city having real foundations, the builder and maker of which city is God.


In modern times, Jehovah's Witnesses have always acknowledged that Charles Russell had a central role in re-establishing true Christianity in the 1870's. Yet Witnesses have never pretended to be followers of Charles Russell any more than they pretended to be followers of Paul or Apollos or Cephas or of ANYONE but Christ Jesus. When seven million Jehovah's Witnesses preach from door to door each month, they work to preach the "good news about the Christ".

(1 Corinthians 1:12-17) What I mean is this, that each one of you says: “I belong to Paul,” “But I to Apollos,” “But I to Cephas,” ...Paul was not impaled for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? ...Christ dispatched me, not to go baptizing, but to go declaring the good news


Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/
http://watchtower.org/e/20030815/
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_02.htm

Answer 5

Why does it matter. They grown beyond those early days and they don't immortalize their people who started or were elders, like Christendom does.