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The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Holiness-Pentecostal Christian denomination, [1] [2] with a predominantly African-American membership. The denomination reports having more than 12,000 churches and over 6.5 million members in the United States. [3]
The Church of God in Christ was formed in 1897 by a group of disfellowshipped Baptists, most notably Charles Price Jones (1865–1949) and Charles Harrison Mason (1864–1961). In 1895, C. P. Jones and C. H. Mason were licensed Baptist ministers in Mississippi who began teaching and preaching the Wesleyan doctrine of Christian perfection or ...
Pages in category "Members of the Church of God in Christ" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Mason suggested the name "the Church of God in Christ," a name that he said came to him during a vision in Little Rock, Arkansas. The name could distinguish the new church from a number of "Church of God" groups that were forming at the time. In March 1907, Mason was sent by the church to Los Angeles to investigate the Azusa Street Revival ...
Pages in category "Presiding Bishops of the Church of God in Christ" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Mason Temple, located in Memphis, Tennessee, is a Christian international sanctuary and central headquarters of the Church of God in Christ, the largest African American Pentecostal group in the world. The building was named for Bishop Charles Harrison Mason, founder of the Church of God in Christ, who is entombed in a marble crypt inside the ...
A man named John Holdeman (1832–1900), who was a baptized Mennonite, was instrumental in establishing the church in 1859. [1] The Church of God in Christ, Mennonite is Conservative Mennonite and is different from other Conservative Mennonites because of its one true church doctrine. [2] [3] In 2021, the church had approximately 27,118 ...
Triumph the Church and Kingdom of God in Christ is a Holiness Pentecostal denomination founded in 1897 by Apostle "Father" Elias Dempsey Smith. [1] It has largely an African American membership. Around 1936 there were two congregations and thirty-six members, by 1972 there were 425 congregations located in the United States, Africa, and the ...