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The African Methodist Episcopal Church unanimously voted to forbid ministers from blessing same-sex unions in July 2004. [43] [44] The church leaders stated that homosexual activity "clearly contradicts [their] understanding of Scripture" and that the call of the African Methodist Episcopal Church "is to hear the voice of God in our Scriptures ...
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]
Bethel AME Church, now known as the Central Pennsylvania African American Museum, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church at 119 North 10th Street in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was originally built in 1837, and is a 2½-storey brick and stucco building with a gable roof. It was rebuilt about 1867–1869, and remodeled in 1889.
At the General Conference in 1888, the church issued a resolution saying that "bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church be and are hereby forbidden to ordain a woman to the order of a deacon or an elder in our church." [7] However, women continued to preach under licenses that had been permitted under the 1884 General Convention. [6]
Mary J. Small was born on October 20, 1850, in Murphy's Boro, Tennessee, to mother Agnes Blair. [2] [3] Little is known of her childhood years or her father. [2]In 1873, she married Reverend John Small, a well-known bishop in the A.M.E. Zion Church.
The congregation was founded in 1838, as Union Bethel (Metropolitan) A. M. E. Church. In 1880, John W. Stevenson was appointed by Bishop Daniel Payne to be pastor of the church for the purpose of building a new church, which would become Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. The cornerstone was laid in September, 1881.
The Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage is a historic structure that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 25, 1999. The chapel was built by A. L. Hansen in 1905, and designed in the Gothic Revival style . [ 3 ]
It is a graduate and professional school sponsored by the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (A.M.E. Zion) and approved by the University Senate of The United Methodist Church. [1] From its founding in 1879 until 2001, the seminary was part of Livingstone College ; it is now independent. [ 2 ]