African Methodist Episcopal Church

African Methodist Episcopal Church ( AME Church as usually referred to ) is a Christian Church in the Methodist tradition, whose members are predominantly African American.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church is not affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church ( WOMBAT ) or the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (CME ) to be confused.

The church was founded in 1816 by Bishop Richard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The ordination of women is practiced in the AME.

Ecumenism

The African Methodist Episcopal Church is a member of the World Methodist Council and the World Council of Churches.

Your membership in Churches Uniting in Christ has the AME let it rest since 2009.

Bishops

  • Richard Franklin Norris
  • Adam Jefferson Richardson, Jr.
  • Cornal Garnett Henning, Sr.
  • John Richard Bryant
  • Theodore Larry Kirkland
  • William Phillips DeVeaux, Sr.
  • Preston Warren Williams, II
  • Carolyn Tyler Guidry
  • James Levert Davis
  • Gregory Gerald McKinley Ingram
  • McKinley Young
  • Samuel Lawrence Green, Sr.
  • Vashti Murphy McKenzie
  • David Rwhynica Daniels, Jr.
  • Wilfred Messiah
  • Sarah Frances Davis
  • Paul Jones Kawimbe
  • E. Earl McCloud, Jr.
  • Jeffrey N. Leath
  • Julius H. McAlister, Sr.
  • John F. White, Sr. Office of Ecumenical Affairs
  • Elvin Fernandez

Former bishops

  • John Hurst Adams
  • Richard Allen Hildebrand
  • Frederick Hilborn Talbot
  • Hamilton Hartford Brookins
  • Vinton Randolph Anderson
  • Frederick Calhoun James
  • Frank Curtis Cummings
  • Philip Robert counsin, Sr
  • Henry Allen Belin, Jr.
  • Richard Allen Chappelle, Sr.
  • Robert Vaughn Webster
  • Zedekiah Grady Lazett
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