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The United Holy Church of America, Inc. (UHCA) is the oldest African-American Holiness-Pentecostal body in the world. It was established in 1886. It was established in 1886. It is a predominantly black Pentecostal denomination, with the international headquarters is located at 5104 Dunstan Road in Greensboro, North Carolina . [ 1 ]
Following a meeting on May 29, 1992, convened in Ohio by Bishop Ellis, several congregations affiliated together as the United Pentecostal Churches of Christ. [6] [7] The then newly formed United Pentecostal Churches of Christ recognized Bishop Ellis as their general overseer and president on August 22, 1992.
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.
Its women clergy operate an organization called the Daughters of the Promise, or Full Gospel International Women's Fellowship. [17] Embracing a mixture of congregationalist, presbyterian, and episcopal polity, Full Gospel Baptists as a collective are governed by the Full Gospel Baptist Council of Bishops. The presiding bishop is the head ...
Ford was pastor of the St. Paul COGIC in Chicago and was Presiding Prelate of the Historic Illinois First Jurisdiction. He was a strong advocate for social justice. He became nationally recognized in 1955 for officiating at the funeral of 15-year-old Emmett Till , who was brutally murdered in Mississippi.
The family of a 4-year-old boy shot and killed by a Macomb police officer March 16 has set up a GoFundMe page to to help raise funds as they mourn the death of someone they called "the light in a ...
The footage showed Sgt. Kenneth Maxwell, of the University of Georgia Police Department, finding Riley’s body after searching for her on a trail by the university campus in Athens, Ga., for ...
Pontifical vestments, also referred to as episcopal vestments or pontificals, are the liturgical vestments worn by bishops (and by concession some other prelates) in the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, in addition to the usual priestly vestments for the celebration of the mass, other sacraments, sacramentals, and canonical hours.