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African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Methodist denomination. It was founded in 1796 by black members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in New York City and was organized as a national body in 1821. The church operates in the United States, Africa, South America, and the West Indies and maintains... Read more
Wilberforce University Wilberforce University
Wilberforce University Wilberforce University, one of the nation's oldest historically black colleges and universities, was founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1856 on the site of Tarawa Springs, a former summer resort in Greene County, Ohio. The school, which had as its purpose the... Read more
African Methodist Episcopal Church African Methodist Episcopal Church
African Methodist Episcopal Church Methodist denomination (see Methodism ). It was established in 1816 in Philadelphia with Richard Allen as its first bishop. In 1991 there were about 3.5 million members in the United States.... Read more
Richard Allen Richard Allen
Richard Allen 1760-1831, American clergyman, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was born a slave in Philadelphia. He became pastor of a black group that had seceded from the Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. When the African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized... Read more
Shirley Graham Du Bois Shirley Graham Du Bois
Du Bois, Shirley Graham November 11, 1896March 27, 1977 Writer and political activist Shirley Graham Du Bois was born Lola Bell Graham in 1896 near Indianapolis, Indiana, the daughter of an African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) minister. She studied music at the Sorbonne and Harvard... Read more
Episcopal Church of Scotland Episcopal Church of Scotland
Episcopal Church of Scotland. Scotland had no territorial episcopate before the 12th cent. and no archbishoprics before the late 15th cent. Although the church assumed an increasingly presbyterian accent after the Reformation, bishops remained a lively issue in the conflicts bedevilling church and... Read more
Henry Ossawa Tanner Henry Ossawa Tanner
Henry Ossawa Tanner 1859-1937, American painter, b. Pittsburgh; son of a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He studied with Eakins in Philadelphia and in Paris. Tanner made many trips to Palestine to obtain background for his religious paintings. His work is naturalistic, and the... Read more
Consultation on Church Union Consultation on Church Union
CONSULTATION ON CHURCH UNION Merger Proposal On 4 December 1960, on the eve of the triennial convention of the National Council of Churches of Christ in America, Eugene Carson Blake, the stated clerk (chief executive officer) of the United Presbyterian Church (Northern), gave... Read more
Anglican Communion Anglican Communion
Anglican Communion the body of churches in all parts of the world that are in communion with the Church of England (see England, Church of ). The communion is composed of regional churches, provinces, and separate dioceses bound together by mutual loyalty as expressed in the Lambeth Conference ... Read more
Episcopate Episcopate
EPISCOPATE The episcopate of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) encompasses the whole body of bishops who govern dioceses and supervise clergy, as well as perform and administer church sacraments. The episcopate is drawn exclusively from the ranks of the celibate "black" clergy,... Read more

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