African Americans in Religion
African American History
African Americans in Religion
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1773 |
First known black Baptist church is founded in Sliver Bluff, South Carolina; other congregations soon form in Georgia and Virginia | |
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1780 |
Lemuel Haynes begins to preach at a Congregational church in Connecticut, making him the first African American minister of a predominantly white congregation |
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1794 |
First African American church congregations in the North are established: the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas and the Bethel A.M.E. Church, both in Philadelphia |
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1816 |
Richard Allen becomes the first African American bishop when he is elected at the general convention of the A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia | |
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1875 |
James Healy is elected the first African American Roman Catholic bishop; presides over the diocese of Portland, Maine |
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1964 |
Prince Taylor becomes the first black Methodist bishop to head a predominantly white district, in New Jersey | |
| Dr. Edler Garnet Hawkins becomes the first African American moderator of the United Presbyterian Church | ||
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1969 |
Thomas Kilgore Jr. becomes the first African American president of the predominantly white American Baptist Convention |
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1970 |
John M. Burgess is installed as the first black bishop to head an Episcopal diocese in the United States (Massachusetts) | |
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1972 |
W. Sterling Cary becomes the first black president of the National Council of Churches |
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1976 |
Dr. Joseph H. Evans is elected the first African American president of the predominantly white Church of Christ |
