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The "Doctrine and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church" is revised at every AME General Conference and published every four years. The AME Church also follows the rule that a minister of the denomination must retire at age 75, [ 38 ] with bishops, more specifically, being required to retire upon the general conference nearest ...
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church: Reality of the Black Church. Charlotte, North Carolina: A.M.E. Zion Publishing House. OCLC 897864. The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, with an Appendix; Revised by the General Conference, Atlanta, Georgia July 16–22, 2008. Charlotte, NC: A.M.E. Zion ...
The African Methodist Episcopal Church unanimously voted to forbid ministers from blessing same-sex unions in July 2004. [1] [2] [3] The church leaders stated that homosexual activity "clearly contradicts [their] understanding of Scripture" and that the call of the African Methodist Episcopal Church "is to hear the voice of God in our Scriptures". [1]
A year into her time in New Haven, in 2008, Leath’s father was elected the AME church's 128th bishop. Following in his footsteps, she received her first pastoral appointment in 2012 to Campbell ...
The resulting Twenty-five Articles were adopted at the Christmas Conference of 1784, [2] and are found in the Books of Discipline of Methodist Churches, such as Chapter I of the Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and paragraph 103 of the United Methodist Church Book of Discipline. [3]
At the General Conference in 1888, the church issued a resolution saying that "bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church be and are hereby forbidden to ordain a woman to the order of a deacon or an elder in our church." [7] However, women continued to preach under licenses that had been permitted under the 1884 General Convention. [6]
The African Methodist Episcopal Church is the target of a class-action lawsuit filed on March 22 by as many as 5000 eligible beneficiaries of its pension fund that has lost at least $90 million ...
The Historic Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Detroit, Michigan will celebrate its 150th Anniversary on Nov. 7th, 2021. It is the 6th oldest African American congregation in Detroit.