African Methodist Episcopal Church

This source names African Methodist Episcopal Church directly: "community-edited article on the African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the oldest independent Black Christian denominations in the United States."

This source names African Methodist Episcopal Church directly: "class-action lawsuits filed by retired African Methodist Episcopal Church pastors alleged the denomination's pastoral pension fund, valued at about 126 million dollars the previous year, had lost..."

The African Methodist Episcopal Church expanded rapidly across the South after 1865 as freedpeople left the white congregations that had seated them in galleries.

This source names African Methodist Episcopal Church directly: "initially, an active member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church."

This source names African Methodist Episcopal Church directly: "a wholly independent denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, decades after the Christmas Conference had organized American Methodism itself at Baltimore in 1784, already recorded here."

This source names African Methodist Episcopal Church directly: "Convention USA Incorporated and the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which forbid clergy from officiating at ceremonies for same-sex couples."

This source names African Methodist Episcopal Church directly: "Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, founded in Charleston in 1816 and known as Mother Emanuel, is one of the oldest Black congregations in the South and was central to the city's civil..."

This source names African Methodist Episcopal Church directly: "denominations of the Black Church: the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, the National Baptist Convention..."

This source names African Methodist Episcopal Church directly: "District of Tennessee, in which the African Methodist Episcopal Church and codefendants agreed to begin restoring nearly 90 million dollars in retirement funds to about 5,000 church employees and..."

Classified as historically Black Protestant tradition per Pew Research Center's 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. The Articles of Religion hold that there are two sacraments ordained of Christ, and that the other five are not to be counted for sacraments of the Gospel.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. The Articles name the worshipping and adoration of images and of relics as a fond thing vainly invented.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. The Articles name the invocation of saints in the same place, and Methodist prayer is addressed to God alone.

Methodist in doctrine and polity, separated over the treatment of Black worshippers rather than over doctrine.

Led the 1787 walkout from St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church, dedicated Bethel AME in 1794, and formally organized the denomination in 1816, becoming its first bishop.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church took the Wesleyan repertory with it at its formation and developed it in its own directions.

Sung in the long metre common style, drawn out and lined by the leader, which is a different thing from the hymn as printed.

The ordinary music of worship, with the choir and the instruments answering the preacher.

Sung in the independent Black churches from their founding, and Richard Allen's hymnal of 1801 was the first compiled for a Black congregation.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church carries the Methodist Discipline's reading of temperance as abstinence.

Its sixth bishop, elected 1852, and the principal architect of its move toward a formally educated clergy; led the church's 1863 purchase of Wilberforce University.

Consecrated bishop in 1880 and used the office to press the denomination's missionary expansion into Africa, personally traveling to West and Southern Africa as part of his advocacy for Black emigration.

The first woman authorized to preach within the African Methodist Episcopal Church, permitted by its founder Bishop Richard Allen in 1819.

Kept as Freedom's Eve, from the night of December 31 1862 when congregations waited for the Emancipation Proclamation to take effect at midnight, and among the most attended services of the year.