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The Church of God is a hierarchical church with an episcopal polity. [22] [13] The Church of God's highest judicial body is the International General Assembly. [23] This body has "full power and authority to designate the teaching, government, principles, and practices" of the Church of God. [24]
Ahn Sahng-hong founded the Church of God in South Korea on 28 April 1964. [13] [14] During his lifetime, there were 13 branches, and the headquarters were located in Busan. [3] After Ahn Sahng-hong died on 25 February 1985, a general assembly of all the church leaders was held in Busan on 4 March 1985.
The Church of God developed from a movement led by Richard Spurling and Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson which would become in 1903 the Church of God. Throughout its history the Church of God movement has experienced a number of divisions. In 1923, Tomlinson was impeached as General Overseer of the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee).
Ahn Sahng-hong [a] (Korean: 안상홍; Hanja: 安商洪; 13 January 1918 – 25 February 1985) was a South Korean religious leader and founder of the Church of God. In 1948, after receiving baptism from a Seventh-day Adventist minister, he began to call for the restoration of the truth of the New Covenant and the last religious reformation.
A church was organized at Cass Station and they called him to be Overseer. By 1915 Rev. Pratt traveled Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia. On February 1, 1915 he established a church in Knoxville, Tennessee. On Christmas Day 1916, the churches that he had established met in a General Assembly at Knoxville, Tennessee.
A more episcopal form of government was adopted in 1944, that included the offices of General Overseer and General Secretary and Treasurer. The Church of God Mountain Assembly has endured three divisions since its formation, resulting in the formation of the General Assembly Church of God (org. 1916 in McCreary County, Kentucky), Church of God ...
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] The National Council of Churches ranks it as the fifth largest Christian denomination in ...
CGI was founded in 1978 by four former members of the Worldwide Church of God, [2] including evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong (1930–2003) [3] after his father, Herbert W. Armstrong, excommunicated him from the WCG and fired him from all roles in the church over disagreements about operations and certain doctrinal positions.