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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 is a predominantly black Pentecostal denomination, with the international headquarters is located at 5104 Dunstan Road in Greensboro, North Carolina. [1]
Bishop John Richard Bryant (born June 8, 1943) a retired bishop who was the former Senior Bishop and Presiding Prelate of the Fourth Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Biography
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Holiness-Pentecostal Christian denomination, [1] [2] with a predominantly African-American membership. The denomination reports having more than 12,000 churches and over 6.5 million members in the United States. [3]
Today, its words resonate deeply as Bethel AME Church in Tallahassee bids a fond farewell to an era of profound care and leadership under Bishop Julius H. McAllister, Jr., who served faithfully ...
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.
A prelate (/ ˈ p r ɛ l ə t /) [1] is a high-ranking member of the Christian clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin praelatus , the past participle of praeferre , which means 'carry before', 'be set above or over' or 'prefer'; hence, a prelate is one set over others.
John E. Miller III: 2008 AMIA – I Gulf Atlantic (asst.) [9] – Great Lakes (interim) – Upper Midwest (acting) Retired. Mark Lawrence: 2008 XIV South Carolina: Admitted to ACNA College of Bishops, June 2017 [10] Retired, 2022. Wesley L. Nolden II: 2009 UECNA (suffr.) – Reformed Episcopal Church – Quincy (asst.) Retired, 2013 William ...
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