Complex sentence: John Early (died 1883) was a Methodist prelate and one of the founders of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, serving as one of its bishops from 1854 through 1866.
Split into simpler sentences: John Early (died 1883) was a Methodist prelate and one of the founders of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He was one of the founders of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and served as one of its bishops from 1854 through 1866.