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Charles Blake was born on August 5, 1940, in Little Rock, Arkansas, to the late Bishop Junious Augustus (J. A.) Blake, Sr. and the late Evangelist Lula M. Blake. He has one older brother, J. A. Blake, Jr., who is also a bishop and pastor in the COGIC denomination in San Diego, California. He became a Christian and converted to Pentecostal ...
Bishop James Oglethorpe Patterson Sr. was elected in November 1968 as the first presiding bishop of the church by the General Assembly at the Sixty-First Holy Convocation of the church. Bishop Patterson was also to date the youngest person to ever be elected presiding bishop of COGIC at the age of 56; the second youngest was his nephew Gilbert ...
Larry R. Benfield (born July 28, 1955) is the thirteenth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas.. Benfield was born in Johnson City, Tennessee, on July 28, 1955.He studied at the University of Tennessee, graduating in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts in agricultural economics, and later a Master of Arts in Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1979.
The former First Church of Christ, Scientist, now the Little Rock Community Church, is a historic church building at 2000 South Louisiana Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a single-story Mission style building, designed by noted Arkansas architect John Parks Almand and completed in 1919. Characteristics of the Mission style include the low ...
In 1984, Bishop Green was appointed to the General Board of the Church of God in Christ. He officially retired from the General Board on November 12, 2012 and was declared an emeritus member of the General Board by Bishop Charles Blake. [citation needed] Bishop Green died on June 26, 2016. [1]
In 1969, after Elder Church's death, Charles E. Blake took over as the pastor of West Angeles. In 1981, it opened a new building at 3045 Crenshaw Boulevard , including a 1,000-seat auditorium. In 1999 , it dedicated a new building including a 5,000-seat auditorium at 3600 Crenshaw Boulevard. [ 2 ]
Bishop-elect Pohlmeier will become the diocese’s 11th bishop when he is consecrated and installed on Friday, July 22 at a 2 p.m. ordination Mass, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Jacksonville.
On November 28, 1843, Byrne was appointed bishop of the new Diocese of Little Rock by He was consecrated in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City on March 10, 1844, by Bishop Hughes. [2] When Byrne arrived in Arkansas, his diocese had approximately 700 Catholics, with four priests and four churches.