Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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, from 2007 to 2021.
The current president of the Department of Evangelism is Bishop Elijah Hankerson III of St. Louis, Missouri. In 2017, Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake appointed gospel artist and Evangelist Dr. Dorinda Clark Cole of Detroit, Michigan as the Elect Lady. Her predecessor was Evangelist Dr. Rita Womack of Los Angeles, California.
Bishop Charles E. Blake, presiding prelate of the Church of God in Christ; Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America; Roman Catholic nun Helen Prejean, who was featured in the award-winning movie Dead Man Walking [2] Additional clergy included: [3]
Charles Edward Blake Sr., American minister and Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ Joseph E. Boone , American civil rights activist L. Venchael Booth , American Baptist pastor and President of the Progressive National Baptist Convention
He was the first person consecrated to the office of Adjutant Bishop in 2001 by then-Presiding Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson. He was appointed to the position of Commissioner of Ecclesiastical Services in 2008 by current Presiding Bishop, Bishop Charles E. Blake. He was succeeded by Bishop Matthew Williams of Orlando, FL. [5] [6]
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.
Charles Blake (surgeon) (1746–1810), British army surgeon; Charles Henry Blake (1794–1872), British businessman in India, later a property developer and railway company director; Charles Blake (chess player) (1880–1961), Anglo-Canadian chess player and lawyer; Charles Edward Blake Sr. (born 1940), American bishop of the Church of God in ...
On April 3, 2014, Swan was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Greater Massachusetts Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction by Charles Edward Blake, Sr., Presiding bishop, and the General Board of the Church of God in Christ. [11]