Nearly a decade after the tragic events at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, Allen University is paying tribute to the ...

Mother Bethel AME Church, the mother church of the AME denomination, was founded in 1794 by Richard Allen, an African-American ... members who are running for bishop. “There’s one gentleman ...

Richard Reidy, formerly with the Diocese of Worcester, Massachusetts, was proclaimed as the Sixth Bishop of the ... Lutheran Church and Rev. Lynell Axson of Evans AME Memorial Zion Church.

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 ...

REVEREND PATRICK CLAIBORNE IS THE SENIOR PASTOR OF BETHEL AME CHURCH, A PLACE THAT’S ORIGINS TRACE WAY BACK TO 1785 WITH A YOUNG BLACK PREACHER NAMED RICHARD ALLEN, THE FOUNDER OF THE AME CHURCH.

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 ...

Rowe voiced the church’s need to address an "existential crisis" comparable to the Rust Belt's steel industry collapse. He will succeed Bishop Michael Curry in November as the Episcopal Church's ...

James' death was announced by the Seventh Episcopal District of the AME Church on April ... served as the presiding bishop and chair of the board of trustees of Allen University, his alma mater.

at Bethel AME Church at 819 Woodrow Street in Columbia. In lieu of flowers, mourners are asked to donate to the Bishop Frederick C. James Scholarship Fund at Allen University.

A.M.E. stands for African Methodist Episcopal Church. The founder of the Christian denomination, Bishop Richard Allen, faced segregation at the Methodist church. So, he split off and built the ...

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 ...