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Pages in category "African Methodist Episcopal churches in Illinois" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... Quinn Chapel AME Church (Chicago)
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Bethel AME Church, Greater Bethel AME Church or Union Bethel AME Church may refer to: Arkansas
The AME Church is active regarding issues of social justice and has invested time in reforming the criminal justice system. [40] The AME Church also opposes "elective abortion". [41] On women's issues, the AME has supported gender equality and, in 2000, first elected a woman to become bishop. [42]
Monday’s election is also significant in that among the retiring bishops are McAllister’s father, Bishop Julius H. McAllister Sr.
The congregation was founded in 1838, as Union Bethel (Metropolitan) A. M. E. Church. In 1880, John W. Stevenson was appointed by Bishop Daniel Payne to be pastor of the church for the purpose of building a new church, which would become Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. The cornerstone was laid in September, 1881.
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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.