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In 2000, he was elected as the Presiding Bishop of COGIC. Bishop Patterson was the second youngest person to ever be elected Presiding Bishop of COGIC at the age 60 in 2000, second to his uncle, Bishop J. O. Patterson Sr. who was 56 when he was elected Presiding Bishop in 1968. He re-ignited the church to be a flagship Pentecostal denomination.
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Holiness-Pentecostal Christian denomination, [1] [2] with a predominantly African-American membership. The denomination reports having more than 12,000 churches and over 6.5 million members in the United States. [3]
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.
In 2001, Daniels was elevated to the role of bishop of the Church of God in Christ, or COGIC. In his 22 years as bishop, Daniels' jurisdiction grew from 39 churches to over 100 ministries across ...
The college was the major institution of higher learning for COGIC youth until closed in 1976. [5] In 1926, Mason further organized COGIC by authorizing the church's constitution outlining the bylaws, rules, and regulations of the church. In 1933, Bishop Mason set apart five overseers who became the first bishops in the church.
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 ...
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 executing and overseeing the religious, civil, and economic bylaws and ministries of the denomination, and who work alongside the delegates of the General Assembly and Board of Bishops to ...
These seals originally depicted a person, but as secular seals began to depict only shields, clergy likewise used seals with heraldic insignia. [4] Personal seals of bishops and abbots continued to be used posthumously, and gradually became the impersonal seals of dioceses. [3] Clergy tended to replace martial devices with clerical devices.