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The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas (AECST) was founded in 1792 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the first black Episcopal Church in the United States. Its congregation developed from the Free African Society, a non-denominational group formed by blacks who had left St. George's Methodist Church because of discrimination and segregation by class. [1]
Douglass then moved to Philadelphia to serve at the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas where Pennsylvania Bishop Henry Onderdonk ordained him as a priest in 1836. [3] Douglass published his first book, a history of his church called The Annals of the First African Church in the United States of America. [4]
St. Thomas African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African-American church in Hawkinsville, Georgia, located at 401 North Dooly Street.It is a large brick building on the northwest corner of North Dooly Street and Second Street, built 1908-1912, replacing a wood building built in 1877.
Richard Allen (February 14, 1760 – March 26, 1831) [1] was a minister, educator, writer, and one of the United States' most active and influential black leaders.In 1794, he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the first independent Black denomination in the United States.
By 1901, McGuire was appointed rector of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in Philadelphia; this was the first black congregation in the Episcopal Church. [5] It had been started in 1794 by Absalom Jones, earlier a founder with Richard Allen of the Free African Society. [6]
He was a member of African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, then located at 5th and Adelphi Streets. [4] In 1825, Cassey married Amy Matilda Williams from New York City, and they had 8 children. [5] [6] His father in-law was Peter Williams Jr., an African-American Methodist Episcopal priest and abolitionist.
The church served the African-American elite of Philadelphia and was one of the most prestigious congregations in African-American Christianity. It was started in 1794 by Absalom Jones, who had been an early leader with Richard Allen of the Free African Union. This preceded Allen's founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. [14]
In 1818, with the blessings of the prominent white Episcopal minister Rev. Thomas Lyell, Williams organized a black Episcopal congregation, which identified as St. Philip's African Church. The following year the congregation was recognized by the Episcopal Church; it was the second black Episcopal church to be founded in the US (the first was ...