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Bishop Singleton T. Jones of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Bishop Singleton T. Jones (March 8, 1825 – April 18, 1891) was a religious leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AME Zion). Although he had little education, Jones taught himself to be an articulate orator and was awarded the position of bishop within ...
The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland established the parish in 1811 and it first held services in Old Paint Branch Chapel in Calverton, Maryland near the border between Prince George's County, Maryland and Montgomery County, Maryland. Between 1825 and 1847, the congregation worshiped in Vansville, Maryland, also in Prince George's County. The ...
In 1762 the congregation built its first church on Fish Street (later East Fayette Street). By 1773, a new church constitution had replaced the church's earlier core document, [2] and eventually, the 1762 structure was also replaced by a bigger building, the current Zion Church on North Gay Street, erected from 1807 to 1808 in a Gothic style. [3]
Church Cathedral of the Incarnation: Church of St. Michael & All Angels Church of the Advent Church of the Redemption Emmanuel Episcopal Church Grace & St. Peter's Church: Memorial Episcopal Church St. James Episcopal Church: St. John's Episcopal Church: St. Luke's Church: St. Paul's Episcopal Church
The African-American Catholic Congregation and its Imani Temples are an Independent Catholic church founded by Archbishop George Augustus Stallings Jr., an Afrocentrist and former Catholic priest, in Washington, D.C. Stallings left the Catholic Church in 1989 and was excommunicated in 1990. [1]
Zion Reformed United Church of Christ, originally The German Reformed Church [1] was founded in 1770 in Hagerstown, Maryland. [2] The church, at 201 North Potomac Street, was the first within the town limits. [3] It is the oldest church building in Washington County, Maryland that has been in continuous use as a church since its construction. [3]
The congregations that withdrew from the Methodist Episcopal Church did so because they strongly advocated abolitionism and disagreed with the church polity held by the M.E. Church. [7] The first secessions in 1841 took place in Michigan although the new church group was formalized in Utica, New York.
St. John's Episcopal Church (Fort Washington, Maryland) St. John's Episcopal Church (Baltimore, Maryland) St. Luke's Church (Baltimore, Maryland) St. Mary, Star of the Sea (Baltimore, Maryland) St. Mary's Seminary Chapel; St. Mary's Church (Abingdon, Maryland) St. Peter's Church (Queenstown, Maryland) St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Earleville ...