AME elects first woman bishop.(African Methodist Episcopal Church elects Vashti McKenzie bishop)(Brief Article)

The Christian Century | July 19, 2000 | Copyright

Vashti McKenzie, pastor of a prominent Baltimore church, was elected July 11 as a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church --the first woman to hold the post in the denomination's 213-year history. "The stained glass ceiling has been cracked, has been broken," McKenzie said in an interview shortly before her consecration at the quadrennial General Conference of the 2.3-million-member denomination.

McKenzie, one of four bishops elected at the meeting in Cincinnati, received the second highest number of votes--874--in the second round of balloting in the ...

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