A historic African American church building in Tennessee that was heavily damaged by an arson attack has received around 1 5 ...

All fifth Sundays are a joint service of the two churches with communion rotating between the Episcopal tradition and the ...

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serialized book in 1865 in The Christian Recorder, newspaper of African Methodist Episcopal Church; serial will be published for first time in book form by Oxford University Press; publication of ...

The two congregations, the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, plan to combine their resources and their more than 140,000 parishioners in the state ...

In 1878, near the town of Easton, a group of African-American Christians joined in fellowship to form the Post Oak Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. The congregation first organized under the ...

After two decades, the First Episcopal District of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church has a new presiding bishop. This past summer, the Rev. Marvin Frank Thomas Sr. succeeded Bishop Emeritus ...

the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — remain independent. “There has been talked about them coming in,” Chase says, “but so far only ...

The closely related Christian Methodist Episcopal Church was formed by freed slaves after the Civil War. The seventh institution is the Church of God in Christ, which, like all Pentecostal groups ...

“When are you coming to our church?” asked Anderson, the band leader at Bethel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Central Long Beach. “It’s been on my list,” said Walker ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The first and only woman ever elected a bishop in the CME Church, Birmingham-based Bishop Teresa E. Snorton, oversees all the Christian Methodist Episcopal churches in ...

Lane Metropolitan Church became the first Christian Methodist Episcopal Church to be established in the City of Cleveland and was host to the largest congregation of African-Americans in the City ...