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Patterson was the second youngest person to ever be elected Presiding Bishop of COGIC at the age of 60 in 2000, second to his predeceased uncle Bishop J. O. Patterson Sr., who was 56 when he was elected Presiding Bishop in 1968. [5] [6] Patterson was famously known across many Christian denominations for being an educated Pentecostal ...
The meeting was chaired by Bishop L.H. Ford, in the presiding bishop's absence. Therefore, the general board's November 1986 action was not executed by Bishop J. O. Patterson Sr. until January 29, 1988, at the Bishops' Conference in Jacksonville, Florida. Bishop G. E. Patterson was elected to the General Board in 1992, and reelected in 1996.
Bishop Gilbert Earl (G. E.) Patterson began his ministry as co-pastor of the Holy Temple COGIC with his father, Bishop W. A. Patterson. In 1975, he resigned as co-pastor, withdrawing his membership in the COGIC because of leadership disagreements with his uncle, J. O. Patterson Sr. concerning an establishment of another jurisdiction in the city ...
For most of its first 60 years, the church was led by Bishop Mason, who died in 1961. In 1968, J.O. Patterson Sr., who had married Mason's daughter, Deborah Indiana Mason, in 1934, was elected the ...
COGIC evangelist leader Louise Patterson, wife of the late G.E. Patterson, died Sunday evening at 84.
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Charles Edward Blake Sr. (born August 5, 1940) is an American minister and retired pastor who served as the Presiding Bishop and leader of the Church of God in Christ, a 6 million-member Holiness Pentecostal denomination, that has now grown to become one of the largest predominantly African American Pentecostal denominations in the United States, from 2007 to 2021.
Patterson was born in Memphis, the son of the first international Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), J. O. Patterson Sr. (1912–1989) and Deborah Mason Patterson (1914–1985). He was the grandson of COGIC founder Bishop Charles Harrison Mason (1864–1961) and cousin of the late Presiding Bishop of COGIC Gilbert E ...