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The Apostolic Assembly of the Faith in Christ Jesus (AAFCJ) is a Oneness Pentecostal denomination in the United States. It was founded in 1925 and incorporated in California on March 15, 1930, and is currently headquartered in Fontana, California .
2006 Election Irregularities On Friday November 24, 2006 in Long Beach, California General Board Elections were held. Since then it has been outspoken that the Qualifying Board committed numerous violations; therefore, the results of said election are invalid.
The Apostolic Assemblies of Christ (AAofC), is a Christian denomination in the Oneness Pentecostal tradition. Founded on March 20, 1970, by Presiding Bishop G.M. Boone, [ 1 ] the organization's headquarters is located in Detroit, Michigan .
The Apostolic Faith Movement played a leading role in organizing and institutionalizing Pentecostalism in the Midwest and Southwest and from 1909 to 1912 absorbed smaller Pentecostal groups. [20] The Apostolic Faith Movement was a mostly-white organization, but it had some black and Hispanic ministers and missionaries.
The Iglesia Apostólica de la Fe en Cristo Jesús frequently abbreviated IAFCJ is a Mexican/Hispanic Oneness Pentecostal denomination. Its sister organization in the United States is the Apostolic Assembly of the Faith in Christ Jesus the oldest bilingual Oneness Pentecostal denomination in the United States.
National officers of the church are chosen at the general assembly every four years unless special elections are warranted. The judicial board serves as the judicial branch and is the supreme body that interprets polity and practice. It has nine members, elected by the general assembly, including three bishops, three elders, and three lay members.
The largest member denomination, Assembleia de Deus in Brazil, dates its beginning to 1911. Initially called Missão de Fé Apostólica (Apostolic Faith Mission), it changed its name in 1918 to Assembleia de Deus. The Assemblies of God USA, organized in April 1914, was the first Pentecostal denomination to name itself Assemblies of God.
Under Chapter V (paragraph 11) of the current Constitution of the Church in Wales, a bishop's election is confirmed by the Bench of Bishops (i.e. such of the six diocesan bishops as are in post) "assembled in Synod". [8] As such, an assembly of the bishops in order to confirm an election has become known as a Sacred Synod.