(RNS) — The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church has elected its ... also elected the second African bishop in the history of the denomination, which was founded in 1870 and claims 1.2 million ...

When African Methodist Episcopal Bishop Reginald T. Jackson was a student at Turner Theological Seminary in Atlanta a bishop once told students that “Georgia is for Georgians.” Jackson ...

(RNS) — The African Methodist Episcopal Church gathered in Columbus, Ohio, for its quadrennial meeting, consecrated six new bishops on Wednesday (Aug. 28) and voted to continue its ban on same ...

We are honest about the conditions that we're facing, but we are not hopeless about what we're facing,' said Bishop W. Darin ...

The Right Rev. Carolyn Guidry, the 122nd elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, died May 3, the church announced. She was 87. The retired prelate died at home ...

The Rev. Julius H. McAllister Jr., senior pastor of Bethel AME Church in Tallahassee, was confirmed as the 144 th elected bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Monday. The selection was ...

Vashti Murphy McKenzie is the first female bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and a symbol of the evolving changes in the ministry and the church’s mission. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.

Episcopal Church declines to resettle White South African refugees approved by Trump administration, ending a decades-long partnership with the government.

(RNS) — Bishop E. Anne Henning Byfield, a leader of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, has died two months into her ...

As U.S. church enters new normal, heightened unrest among United Methodists in African ... number of new bishop elections fulfilled a need to shrink United Methodist episcopal leadership in ...

bishop of the First Episcopal District ... Allen and how his whole life unfolded and how we became the African Methodist Episcopal Church. But coming to this corridor of the world, to be the ...

founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Although he at first denied her request, Bishop Allen was so moved by Lee's spontaneous exhortation during a visiting minister's sermon that he ...