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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.
Pages in category "Historically African-American Christian denominations" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Seeking autonomy, some black religious leaders like Richard Allen founded separate black denominations. [29] The Second Great Awakening (1800–20s) has been called the "central and defining event in the development of Afro-Christianity". [30] Free black religious leaders also established black churches in the South before 1860.
Historically African-American Christian denominations (8 C, 44 P) Historically black Christian schools (2 C, ... 87 P) Pages in category "African-American Christianity"
The National Baptist Convention, USA, is one of four major Black Baptist denominations in the U.S. and is the oldest and largest of the four. The denomination, with between 5.2 million and 7.5 ...
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 African Orthodox Church was founded on the belief that black Episcopalians should have a denomination of their own. Episcopal rector George Alexander McGuire was consecrated a bishop on September 28, 1921, who had served as Chaplain-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U. N. I. A.), in Chicago, Illinois, by an episcopus vagans, Archbishop Joseph Rene Vilatte, assisted by ...
Calvinists believe in the sole authority of the Bible, of Christ alone, and in faith and morals, and object to the Catholic Church through their "five solae", or five core theological beliefs. [40] [41] Presbyterian and Reformed churches are both considered Calvinist in doctrine. [42] These two denominations make up approximately 7% of all ...