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The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, or the AME Zion Church (AMEZ) is a historically African-American Christian denomination based in the United States. It was officially formed in 1821 in New York City, but operated for a number of years before then. The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian theology. [1]
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion church evolved as a division within the Methodist Episcopal Church denomination. The first AME Zion church was founded in 1800. Like the AME Church, the AME Zion Church sent missionaries to Africa in the first decade after the American Civil War and it also has a continuing overseas presence.
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William Paul Quinn. William Paul Quinn (10 April 1788 – 21 February 1873) [1] was born in India and immigrated to the United States, where he became the fourth bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first independent black denomination in the United States when founded in 1816 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 1862, the church helped launch the second AME church in Cincinnati, the Brown Chapel AME Church. [ 7 ] Because of growth and vandalism, in 1870 the congregation purchased the structure previously housing the Rockdale Temple synagogue for $40,000, (~$850,574 in 2023) reflecting its position as one of the early black churches with a ...
Julia A.J. Foote, the daughter of former slaves, was born in Schenectady, New York in 1823. At the age of ten, Foote was sent to work for a farm family, and for just under two years she lived and worked for the Prime family as a domestic servant. [8]
St. James AME Zion Church (Ithaca, New York) St. John's Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Schuylkill Friends Meeting House; Second Baptist Church (Detroit, Michigan) Sennett Federated Church and Parsonage
In 1852, Moore moved to San Francisco to further the church in that city. According to Bishop B.J. Walls, Moore was credited with, "Planting the core tenets of freedom, as practiced by his denomination, on the Pacific Coast, in 1852". [7] In 1852 Moore founded St. Cyprian AME Church, the first AME Zion Church in San Francisco.