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The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is an international Holiness–Pentecostal Christian denomination, [2] [4] and a large Pentecostal denomination in the United States. [5] Although an international and multi-ethnic religious organization, it has a predominantly African-American membership based within the United States.
Not forgetting his work with the youth of the church, in 1928 he founded the International Youth Congress of the Church of God in Christ. In 1933 Bishop Charles Harrison Mason, the founder of the Church of God in Christ, selected Jones as one of the five men to be consecrated as the denomination's first "founding" bishops. He was later selected ...
Mason suggested the name "the Church of God in Christ," a name that he said came to him during a vision in Little Rock, Arkansas. The name could distinguish the new church from a number of "Church of God" groups that were forming at the time. In March 1907, Mason was sent by the church to Los Angeles to investigate the Azusa Street Revival ...
From the the pulpit of Holy Redeemer Institutional Church of God in Christ, Bishop Sedgwick Daniels enraptured worshipers each Sunday with electrifying and uplifting sermons, often driving them to ...
Church: Church of England: Diocese: Diocese of Norwich: Elected: 17 December 1594: Term ended: ... William Redman (c. 1541/2 – 25 September 1602) was an English bishop.
In 1921, the first property bought for Christ Temple was on 37th and Naomi. Then in 1926, a church and parsonage were purchased for $18,000 on the corner of 54th and Hooper. In 1922 the church created a council of Bishops in the national convocation and he was chosen to be the first Senior Bishop.
Pages in category "Presiding Bishops of the Church of God in Christ" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The claimed succession from the Methodist Episcopal Church is stated as being via three Church of God in Christ bishops (David Charles Williams, Carl Edward Williams and Reuben Timothy Jones), all of whom held holy orders from the Methodist Episcopal Church. In his book, he made no claim or comment at all as to whether the line of succession ...