Radnor Township is hosting a wreath-laying ceremony Friday, Feb. 14, for AME Church founder Bishop Richard Allen, reports The ...

bishop of the First Episcopal District of the AME Church, the position that Allen held after founding the church. “Those of us who grew up in the AME Church grew up hearing the story of Richard ...

Newman’s Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church and the Black Founding Fathers (New York University Press, 2008) uses new information from the Library Company of Philadelphia, founded ...

Richard Allen – born Feb ... for and by Blacks that stands today, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in 1794, here in Philadelphia. Allen’s leadership secured the formal founding ...

(RNS) The U.S. Postal Service called Richard Allen “an inspiring figure whose life and work resonate profoundly in American history.” (RNS) Richard Allen, the first bishop of the African ...

15, at the Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C. Richard Newman, a professor of history at RIT, wrote Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church and the Black Founding Fathers in ...

The First Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church unveiled “The Legacy of Bishop Richard Allen and AME Church Mural” on Monday in West Philadelphia. The four-story high ...

where the AME Church started under Bishop Richard Allen in 1787. This district includes the eastern half of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, New England (including Massachusetts ...

ROCKFORD (WREX)-- Allen Chapel AME Church becomes 131 years old ... in the footsteps of those who came before him, like Bishop Richard Allen who founded the Church in 1891.

Vashti Murphy McKenzie is the first female bishop of the African Methodist ... rather than theological beliefs and differences. The African Methodist Episcopal Church was formed in 1816 by Richard ...