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The Evangelical Church was formed in 1922 by the merger of the Evangelical Association of North America and the United Evangelical Church. The merger was a reunion of the two churches. They had split in 1894, when a third of the membership of the Evangelical Association withdrew and formed the United Evangelical Church.

The Evangelical Association of North America was founded by Jacob Albright. In the 1790s.

In 1894 the church divided, mostly along language lines. The smaller and mostly English speaking group took the name, the United Evangelical Church. The two denominations reunited in 1922.

In 1946, the Evangelical Church merged with the Church of the United Brethren in Christ to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church.