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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.
In 1988 he began serving as Bishop for the Sixth Episcopal District, in Georgia. [2] [16] He was a heavy critic of Ralph Abernathy's 1989 book And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, which made controversial claims about Martin Luther King Jr.'s private life. [17] [18] In 1992 Adams was named Bishop of the Seventh Episcopal District in South Carolina.
Joseph Simeon Flipper (February 22, 1859 – October 9, 1944) was an American bishop and academic. ... and held a position at Big Bethel AME Church in Athens. [3]
After Allen's death, Brown was selected as the second bishop of the AME denomination. He planted new congregations and established conferences of AME churches in the American Midwest and Ontario, Canada. He also mentored rising AME leaders such as the Rev. Daniel Payne, and encouraged formal education for new preachers and pastors. [1]
Bishop Ransom also served as a historian and editor of the A.M.E. Church Review. Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom died April 22, 1959. "The Bishop Reverdy Cassius Ransom Memorial Library" is located on the campus of Wilberforce University, Ohio, at Payne Theological Seminary in honor of his religious, civil rights and humanitarian accomplishments.
Rev. Dr. Cecil L. “Chip” Murray, who served as pastor of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles for 27 years, has died. He was 94. Murray died of natural causes Friday ...
Hamel Hartford Brookins better known as H. H. Brookins (June 8, 1925 – May 22, 2012) was an American bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, community leader, and political powerbroker. Biography
William Paul Quinn. William Paul Quinn (10 April 1788 – 21 February 1873) [1] was born in India and immigrated to the United States, where he became the fourth bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first independent black denomination in the United States when founded in 1816 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.