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He was also annually named as one of the Power 150 Religious Leaders by Ebony Magazine, for several years until his death in 2007, alongside fellow COGIC Bishop, Bishop Charles E. Blake, who would actually succeed Patterson as Presiding Bishop of the COGIC denomination. Patterson was also the editor and publisher of the Bountiful Blessings ...
Patterson was born in Memphis, the son of the first international Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), J. O. Patterson Sr. (1912–1989) and Deborah Mason Patterson (1914–1985). He was the grandson of COGIC founder Bishop Charles Harrison Mason (1864–1961) and cousin of the late Presiding Bishop of COGIC Gilbert E ...
The meeting was chaired by Bishop L.H. Ford, in the presiding bishop's absence. Therefore, the general board's November 1986 action was not executed by Bishop J. O. Patterson Sr. until January 29, 1988, at the Bishops' Conference in Jacksonville, Florida. Bishop G. E. Patterson was elected to the General Board in 1992, and reelected in 1996.
The first Mrs. Patterson died in 1985. Bishop Patterson married Mary Patterson in 1989, about eight months before his death at 77. Against this backdrop of denominational and family influence ...
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, that has now grown to become one of the largest predominantly African American Pentecostal denominations in the United States, from 2007 to 2021.
James Patterson Lyke, O.F.M. (February 18, 1939 – December 27, 1992) was an African-American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Atlanta from 1991 to 1992. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland from 1979 to 1990.
Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., an influential Maryland pastor and evangelical adviser to President Trump, died Monday at the age of 66, according to his church. “It is with a heavy heart that we ...
On season one, episode three, Loreli's (Lauren Graham) mother, Emily Gilmore (Kelly Bishop), pointed out that her dinner plates used to belong to Lorelei Gilmore the First, Richard's mother.