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The Black church (sometimes termed Black Christianity or African American Christianity) is the faith and body of Christian denominations and congregations in the United States that predominantly minister to, and are also led by African Americans, [1] as well as these churches' collective traditions and members.
Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-514585-2. Vaughn, Steve. "Making Jesus black: the historiographical debate on the roots of African-American Christianity." Journal of Negro History (1997): 25–41. JSTOR 2717494; Woodson, Carter G. (1921). The History of the Negro Church.
Clergy of historically African-American Christian denominations (3 C, 25 P) A. A.U.M.P. Church (6 P) African Methodist Episcopal Church (3 C, 16 P)
Black Catholicism or African-American Catholicism comprises the African-American people, beliefs, and practices in the Catholic Church. There are around three million Black Catholics in the United States, making up 6% of the total population of African Americans, who are mostly Protestant , and 4% of American Catholics .
Black Methodism in the United States is the Methodist tradition within the Black Church, largely consisting of congregations in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME), African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AME Zion or AMEZ), Christian Methodist Episcopal denominations, as well as those African American congregations in other Methodist denominations, such as the Free Methodist Church.
The Spencer Churches (less commonly called the Union Churches) are two African-American Christian denominations in the United States that resulted from a 1860s schism in the Union Church of Africans (also known as African Union Church). That denomination was founded by Peter Spencer, a freed slave, in Wilmington, Delaware in 1813. [1]
In 2007, there was an estimated 75,000 members in about 500 churches. [2] The General Conference has published a book of discipline since 1903 and publishes a periodical called The Free Will Baptist Advocate. [3] The United American Free Will Baptist Church is a member of the National Fraternal Council of Negro Churches. Bishop J. E. Reddick ...
Overall, the National Baptist Convention continues to remain one of the largest historically and predominantly African American or Black Christian denominations in the United States; separated bodies, such as the theologically conservative-to-moderate National Baptist Convention of America, have stagnated in membership (2000's 3,500,000 members ...