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The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is an international Holiness–Pentecostal Christian denomination, [2] [4] and a large Pentecostal denomination in the United States. [5] Although an international and multi-ethnic religious organization, it has a predominantly African-American membership based within the United States.
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Holiness-Pentecostal Christian denomination, [1] [2] with a predominantly African-American membership. The denomination reports having more than 12,000 churches and over 6.5 million members in the United States. [3]
* Florida College has a loose affiliation with the churches of Christ (non-institutional), in that those on its board of trustees must all be members. It does not accept funding from churches. [1] Affiliated with the Churches of Christ universities no longer in operation include these institutions:
Bishop Payne Divinity School (Virginia), defunct; The Church Divinity School of the Pacific (California) mid-way between Evangelical and Anglo-Catholic, Liberal; Cranmer Theological House (Texas) Cummins Memorial Theological Seminary (South Carolina) Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest (Texas) Midway
A sexton is an officer of a church, congregation, or synagogue charged with the maintenance of its buildings and/or an associated graveyard. In smaller places of worship, this office is often combined with that of verger. [1] Larger establishments, such as cathedrals, may employ a team of sextons. [2]
Pages in category "Presiding Bishops of the Church of God in Christ" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 1970, the Charles H. Mason Theological Seminary was established as a new seminary within ITC, named for Charles Harrison Mason, founder of the Church of God in Christ. [3] [6] From 1971 through 1979, the ITC also operated the Absalom Jones Theological Institute in cooperation with the Episcopal Church.
Saints Academy was a private 1-12 school in Lexington, Mississippi, the county seat of Holmes County.Founded by the Church of God in Christ in 1918 as the Saints Industrial and Literary School, a school for black children in a segregated environment, it gradually expanded.