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Initially the position of Presiding Bishop rotated geographically. After 1795 the Presiding Bishop was the senior bishop in order of consecration. Starting in 1926, the office became elective, the Presiding Bishop being chosen at General Convention by vote by all bishops, and approved by the House of Deputies. The office now has a nine-year term.
John Drew Sheard Jr. (born January 1, 1959) [1] is an American pastor and minister from Detroit, Michigan, who is the current presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ, a six million-member predominantly African-American Holiness Pentecostal denomination that has now grown to become one of the largest African-American Pentecostal denominations in the United States.
The current Presiding Bishop is Bishop John Drew Sheard Sr., who is the Senior Pastor of the Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ of Detroit, Michigan. He was elected as the denomination's leader on March 27, 2021.
On the eve of the Church of God in Christ’s second Holy Convocation back in Memphis, COGIC Presiding Bishop J. Drew Sheard is set to release a book of weekly devotionals.. The book, “Say It ...
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The current presiding bishop of the Church Of God In Christ is Bishop J. Drew Sheard, [7] pastor of Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church Of God In Christ located in Detroit, Michigan. The Presiding Bishop is elected every four years by the COGIC General Assembly and Board of Bishops, along with eleven other Bishops who are in charge of ...
The Right Rev. Sean Rowe, center, shown presiding at the funeral service for Waldameer Park & Water World owner Paul Nelson, will begin serving as the Episcopal Church's presiding bishop on Nov. 1.
"PB" refers to whether the bishop became a Presiding Bishop in TEC and, if so, which number in the sequence. Under consecrators, one finds numbers or letters referencing previous bishops on the list. If a series of letters is under "Consecrators", then the consecrators were bishops or archbishops from outside of the ECUSA: