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Charles Edward Blake Sr. (born August 5, 1940) is an American minister and retired pastor who served as the Presiding Bishop and leader of the Church of God in Christ, a 6 million-member Holiness Pentecostal denomination, from 2007 to 2021.
Bishop Charles E. Blake assumed leadership and was elected Presiding Bishop of the church after the death of Bishop G.E. Patterson in March 2007. Bishop Blake is the senior pastor of the West Angeles Cathedral COGIC in Los Angeles.
He served a church in New Jersey while attending Drew. Upon returning to Kansas (the Kansas West Annual Conference), he served the Ransom-Brownell U.M. Charge (1962–67).He was pastor at Herington, Kansas (1967–69); then as the director of the first cooperative ministry in the Kansas West Conference: the Tri-County Cooperative Ministry at Herington (1969–74).
In 1969, after Elder Church's death, Charles E. Blake took over as the pastor of West Angeles. In 1981, it opened a new building at 3045 Crenshaw Boulevard , including a 1,000-seat auditorium. In 1999 , it dedicated a new building including a 5,000-seat auditorium at 3600 Crenshaw Boulevard. [ 2 ]
Blake realized that a new denomination had to be founded and set about writing the necessary canons. [citation needed] At Hazlewood Castle, Michael Wilson [12] was consecrated a bishop by Palmer and Blake. The three bishops issued the "Hazlewood Declaration" on 10 November 2001, which facilitated the creation of the Open Episcopal Church.
Jonathan Clive Blake (born 1956) [1] [2] [3] is a British archbishop, activist and author most known for conducting the first gay wedding blessing on Richard and Judy's prime time TV programme This Morning, [4] conducting the wedding blessing for the late media personality, Jade Goody, [5] campaigning for equal marriage, [6] becoming the "country's first freelance vicar" [7] celebrating ...
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Gilbert Earl Patterson (September 22, 1939 [1] – March 20, 2007 [2]) was an American Holiness Pentecostal leader and pastor.He served as the founding pastor of the Temple of Deliverance COGIC Cathedral of Bountiful Blessings, one of the largest COGIC churches in the Eastern United States, from 1975 to 2007.