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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.
William Paul Quinn (1788–1873), bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church William Wilson Quinn (1907–2000), Chevalier Lieutenant General, commanding general of the Seventh United States Army
Quinn Chapel AME Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church building located at 227 Bowen Street in the Carondelet section of St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States. Built in 1869 as the North Public Market, it was acquired by the church in 1880. [2] On October 16, 1974, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Feb. 11—Black history museum proposed The public in invited to a meeting on Feb. 16 to discuss the future of the Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church building in Ironton. The historic Black church ...
They named the church for Bishop William Paul Quinn. In the years leading up to the Civil War , the church played an important role in the city's abolitionist movement. It was as a stop on the Underground Railroad , serving those escaping slavery from the Southern United States . [ 3 ]
In 1848, fourth Bishop William Paul Quinn (1788–1873), named Payne as the historiographer of the AME Church. In 1852, Payne was elected and consecrated as the sixth bishop of the AME denomination. He served in that position for the rest of his life to 1893.
In 1995, Archbishop Quinn appointed McElroy to be vicar general of the archdiocese, an office he held under Archbishop Quinn and Cardinal William Levada until 1997. [3] [6] [10] In 1996, McElroy was made an honorary prelate by Pope John Paul II. [3] From 1997 to 2010, McElroy served as the pastor of St. Gregory Church in San Mateo, California ...
William Jackson Cox (January 24, 1921 – January 17, 2025) was an American Episcopalian bishop. Made a bishop in 1972, he served first as suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland and then as assistant bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma .