“(T)he AME Church shall commit to electing bishops from Districts 14 through 20 with no limitations placed on their districts of service,” reads the resolution. On Monday, the church announced ...

He also wants to give support to Edward Waters College, an AME affiliated school in Jacksonville. Bishops are allowed to serve one district for only two consecutive four-year terms. Half of the ...

He will serve the 15 th Episcopal District, which includes Western South Africa, Namibia and Angola. The other bishops elected are the Rev. Marvin Clyde Zanders II, pastor of St. Paul AME Church ...

The AME Men’s Empowerment Center in Raleigh ... has been one of their prominent projects. In the District, the Bishop led the effort to get the word out among churches about the Affordable ...

AME Bishop John Bryant, who heads the church’s 5th Episcopal District that includes St. Louis and Los Angeles, held a closed-door session Monday evening and told the 200 congregants who filled ...

"It signals to us the need to carefully review the administrative processes we employ in handling such issues," read a statement issued Wednesday as bishops from AME districts around the world ...

Richardson Jr., former senior pastor of Bethel AME Church in Tallahassee, who was elected in 1996, and Frank Madison Reid III, the bishop overseeing the 11 th Episcopal district which includes ...

A group of New York clergy took more than $1 million from a real estate developer who sought to turn distressed Black churches into lucrative properties, according to settlements with the state ...

She previously led districts with churches in Indiana and ... Byfield read a portion of the litany at the event’s opening ...

the world’s oldest Methodist Bishop, died at the age of 102 years old, according to the Seventh Episcopal District of the AME Church. Born in Prosperity in 1922, Bishop James served as Director ...

(RNS) — The African Methodist Episcopal Church gathered in Columbus, Ohio, for its quadrennial meeting, consecrated six new bishops on Wednesday (Aug. 28) and voted to continue its ban on same ...