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9th Episcopal District – Bishop Julius H. McAllister, Jr. 10th Episcopal District – Bishop Ronnie E. Brailsford, Sr. 11th Episcopal District – Bishop Marvin C. Zanders, II; 12th Episcopal District – Bishop Silvester S. Beaman; 13th Episcopal District – Bishop Harry L. Seawright; 14th Episcopal District – Bishop Paul J. M. Kawimbe
The church was built in 1891, by a congregation that had organized in 1869, brought together in meetings in a "brush arbor" organized by Edian Markham, a former slave and AME missionary. After building a couple of wooden structures, the congregation raised money for this brick church, including funds donated by white philanthropists. [3] [4]
The Rev. Julius H. McAllister Jr., senior pastor of Bethel AME Church in Tallahassee, was confirmed as the 144 th elected bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Monday.
Vashti was born on May 28, 1947, in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the daughter of Samuel Edward Smith and Ida Murphy Smith Peters. [6] She was named after her maternal grandmother, Vashti Turley Murphy, [7] who was one of 22 women who founded the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 1913, while a student at Howard University.
The Rt. Rev. Reginald T. Jackson was elected and consecrated as the 132 bishop [1] in the A.M.E. Church in 2012 at the 49th Quadrennial Session General Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. He was elected out of the First Episcopal District and stood on the platform: "Imagine the Church at Its Best" and "Strengthen Local Churches"!
At the 48th General Conference of the AME Church in 2008 he was appointed the Presiding Prelate of the 9th Episcopal District, which comprises the State of Alabama. Prior to his election, Davis served for twelve years as the pastor of historic Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta, Georgia. At the 50th General Conference of the AME Church in 2016 ...
The work they were doing impressed him and when he proposed to the council of Bishops that a similar union be established for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. [3] In 1882, Smith founded the Sunday School Union of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Nashville and served as its treasurer and the corresponding secretary until 1900. [4]