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The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (C.M.E.C.) is a Methodist denomination that is based in the United States. It adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian theology . Though historically a part of the black church , the Christian Methodist Episcopal church membership has evolved to include all racial backgrounds.
From 2011 to 2022 she was the presiding bishop for the fifth episcopal district, which has oversight of CME churches in Alabama and Florida. In 2022 she was appointed as the church’s ecumenical and development officer. [2] She is the ecumenical officer and the endorsing agent for the CME church.
No. Presiding Bishop Image Took office Left office Diocese Length of term 4: William White: September 8, 1795: July 17, 1836: Pennsylvania: 40 years, 313 days
The Roman numeral before the diocese name represents where in the sequence that bishop falls; e.g., the fourth bishop of Pennsylvania is written "IV Pennsylvania". Where a diocese is in bold type it indicates that the bishop is a current bishop of that diocese.
1st Episcopal District – Bishop Samuel L. Green, Sr. 2nd Episcopal District – Bishop Reginald T. Jackson; 3rd Episcopal District – Bishop Stafford J. N. Wicker; 4th Episcopal District – Bishop Frederick A. Wright; 5th Episcopal District – Bishop Francine A. Brookins, Esq. 6th Episcopal District – Bishop Michael L. Mitchell
He was elected and consecrated the 106th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church at the 1988 General Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. He earned his B.A. degree in 1965 at Morgan State University , his M.Th. degree in 1970 at the Boston University School of Theology, and his D.Min. degree at the Colgate Rochester Divinity School in 1975.
With the merger of three Methodist denominations in 1939 to form the Methodist Church, [1] jurisdictions were established, in which bishops were elected by jurisdictional conferences and assigned to episcopal areas within each jurisdiction (to itinerate within thereafter). Methodist bishops continued to serve as episcopal leaders of the entire ...
In the late 1840s, separate Conferences were formed for German-speaking members of the Methodist Episcopal Church who were not members of the Evangelical Association or the United Brethren in Christ (later merged to form the Evangelical United Brethren (EUB)). Among these was the St. Louis German Conference, which in 1925 was assimilated into ...