You must leave this section now.” “Wait until the prayer is over and I will go,” softly replied the Black man, kneeling in ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.