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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]
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.
The name Church of God in Christ was widely held by both groups until 1907, when Bishop C. H. Mason had the name COGIC, incorporated. Churches of the Holiness division began to use the name Church of Christ Holiness , and in October 1920 was chartered in the state of Mississippi as the Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A. .
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.
Ozro Thurston Jones Sr. (March 26, 1891 – September 23, 1972) was a Holiness Pentecostal denomination leader and minister, who was the second Senior Bishop of the Church of God in Christ, Inc. (1962–1968), succeeding Bishop Charles Harrison Mason, who was the founder.
Bishop Charles Harrison Mason Sr. (September 8, 1864 – November 17, 1961) was an American Holiness–Pentecostal pastor and minister. [1] [2] He was the founder and first Senior Bishop of the Church of God in Christ, based in Memphis, Tennessee.
The HuffPost/Chronicle analysis found that subsidization rates tend to be highest at colleges where ticket sales and other revenue is the lowest — meaning that students who have the least interest in their college’s sports teams are often required to pay the most to support them.
J. Delano Ellis, II was the son of Lucy and Jesse Delano Ellis, Sr. At age 13 or 14, Lucy became pregnant with Ellis. [14] His mother was a Christian and his father rejected Christianity for the Moorish Science Temple of America and then the Nation of Islam.