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Francis Lewis (March 21, 1713 – December 31, 1802) was an American merchant and a Founding Father of the United States. [1] He was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation as a representative of New York in the Continental Congress .
Francis Olubowale Aderibigbe Oke [1] (born 8 September 1956) is a Nigerian author, Christian leader and televangelist. He is the founder and presiding Bishop of Sword of the Spirit Ministries . He also serves as the current President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria and Chancellor of Precious Cornerstone University (PCU) in Ibadan.
The church began in 1983 when Francis Wale Oke brought together a team of seven fellow believers including his wife Victoria to meet every week for a prayer group. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In 1990, Sword of the Spirit Ministries led an anti-Islamic [ 16 ] preaching crusade in Sokoto . [ 17 ]
Lewis was appointed to Mississippi's UMC on Jan. 1 of 2023 as the first black woman to lead the church in the state. She followed Bishop James Swanson and has led the group through the last 18 months.
Francis "Frank" Leo (born June 30, 1971) is a Canadian Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Toronto since March 2023. He was Auxiliary Bishop of Montreal from September 2022 until his appointment to Toronto. Since 2007, he has been a member of the Priestly Fraternities of Saint Dominic.
Francis Asbury (1745–1816), the founding bishop of American Methodism, established the precedent for circuit riding. Together with his driver and partner " Black Harry " Hosier, he traveled 270,000 miles and preached 16,000 sermons as he made his way up and down early America supervising clergy.
Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document released Monday Dec. 18, 2023 explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that ...
Lewis Jerome Zeigler (4 January 1944 – 12 August 2022) was a Liberian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Monrovia since 2011 until 2021. Zeigler was born in Harrisburg in 1944 and was ordained in 1974 before he was appointed in 2002 as the Bishop of Gbarnga .