AME church bishops
View
@ New Georgia Encyclopedia
Description
Image of an 1876 lithograph in which Richard Allen (center), the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination, is depicted with other bishops. The images of the bishops are surrounded by scenes including Wilberforce University, the oldest private African-American university in the United States; Payne Institute, an historically African-American school that later became Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina; and the A.M.E. church book depository in Philadelphia.Established in Pennsylvania in 1816, the AME Church arrived in Georgia at the close of the Civil War, as missionaries from the denomination entered the state with Union troops.
Record Contributed By
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Record Harvested From
Digital Library of Georgia