Fred A. Hillery

Who was Fred A. Hillery?

Fred A. Hillery was an early leader in the American Holiness Movement; the founding president of the South Providence Holiness Association; the founding pastor of the People's Evangelical Church, the "mother church of the Church of the Nazarene in the East"; a co-founder of the Central Evangelical Holiness Association and also of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America; one of the founders of the Pentecostal Collegiate Institute; one of the founding fathers of the Church of the Nazarene; and the publisher of holiness periodicals and books.