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The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Holiness-Pentecostal Christian denomination, [1] [2] with a predominantly African-American membership. The denomination reports having more than 12,000 churches and over 6.5 million members in the United States. [3]
John Drew Sheard Jr. (born January 1, 1959) [1] is an American pastor and minister from Detroit, Michigan, who is the current presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ, a six million-member predominantly African-American Holiness Pentecostal denomination that has now grown to become one of the largest African-American Pentecostal denominations in the United States.
Patterson was born in Memphis, the son of the first international Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), J. O. Patterson Sr. (1912–1989) and Deborah Mason Patterson (1914–1985). He was the grandson of COGIC founder Bishop Charles Harrison Mason (1864–1961) and cousin of the late Presiding Bishop of COGIC Gilbert E ...
On the eve of the Church of God in Christ’s second Holy Convocation back in Memphis, COGIC Presiding Bishop J. Drew Sheard is set to release a book of weekly devotionals.. The book, “Say It ...
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is an international Holiness–Pentecostal Christian denomination, [2] [4] and a large Pentecostal denomination in the United States. [5] Although an international and multi-ethnic religious organization, it has a predominantly African-American membership based within the United States.
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G. E. Patterson founded the Temple of Deliverance Church of God in Christ as the Bountiful Blessings Temple of Deliverance in 1975. The Church became affiliated with the Church of God in Christ in 1988. [citation needed] Gilbert Earl Patterson was born September 22, 1939, in the parsonage next door to the Church of God in Christ in Humboldt ...
The name Church of God in Christ was widely held by both groups until 1907, when Bishop C. H. Mason had the name COGIC, incorporated. Churches of the Holiness division began to use the name Church of Christ Holiness, and in October 1920 was chartered in the state of Mississippi as the Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A..