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  2. Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church - Wikipedia

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    The Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is an historic church and congregation which is located at 419 South 6th Street in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The congregation, founded in 1794, is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal congregation in the nation.

  3. Richard Allen (bishop) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. African Methodist Episcopal Church - Wikipedia

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    The African Methodist Episcopal Church unanimously voted to forbid ministers from blessing same-sex unions in July 2004. [43] [44] The church leaders stated that homosexual activity "clearly contradicts [their] understanding of Scripture" and that the call of the African Methodist Episcopal Church "is to hear the voice of God in our Scriptures ...

  5. Wesley AME Zion Church - Wikipedia

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    The church sanctuary is located on the second floor and contains a large U-shaped balcony and is brightly lit by stained glass windows on all sides. "Big Wesley" has been a historical leader in the development of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church denomination and influential in civil rights and social reforms in the 1950s and 1960s. [3]

  6. Black denomination upholds stance against same-sex marriage ...

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    When the African Methodist Episcopal Church, arguably the world’s largest independent Black Protestant denomination, held its quadrennial General Conference in Ohio in August, among the agenda ...

  7. Morris Brown - Wikipedia

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    Morris Brown (January 8, 1770 – May 9, 1849) was one of the founders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and its second presiding bishop. He founded Emanuel AME Church in his native Charleston, South Carolina. It was implicated in the slave uprising planned by Denmark Vesey, also of this church, and after that was suppressed, Brown was ...

  8. Sarah Allen (missionary) - Wikipedia

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    Sarah Allen (also known as Sara Allen [1] and Mother Allen; [2] née Bass; 1764 – July 16, 1849) was an American abolitionist and missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She is known within the AME Church as The Founding Mother. [2]

  9. List of Methodist churches in the United States - Wikipedia

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    First African Methodist Episcopal Church: built NRHP-listed Athens, Georgia: Butler Street Colored Methodist Episcopal Church: built NRHP-listed Atlanta, Georgia: New Hope African Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery: built NRHP-listed Atlanta, Georgia: Park Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South: built NRHP-listed Atlanta, Georgia: St ...