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 in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. Works of mercy stand beside works of piety in the Methodist account of the Christian life, and neither is optional.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. Baptism is administered by sprinkling, pouring or immersion, the mode being left to the person receiving it, which is unusual among the churches that baptise infants.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. Baptism is understood as the sign of the new covenant and the beginning of a life of grace to be grown into, not a moment complete in itself.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. Confirmation is the profession of faith by which a baptised person is received into full membership, and it is not held to be a sacrament.

One of the oldest African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the American South, founded in 1816.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. Fasting is one of the means of grace, and Wesley kept the Friday fast himself and pressed it on the societies.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. The Service of Death and Resurrection is the modern form of the burial office and takes its name from what it is meant to proclaim.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. Ordination is to the orders of deacon and elder. The episcopacy is an office to which an elder is elected and consecrated, not a third order, which is the settled Methodist difference from Anglican practice.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. Infants are baptised, and the service places the congregation under a vow to nurture the child.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. Intinction is the ordinary manner of receiving in many congregations, and it follows from the use of unfermented grape juice in a common cup.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. The liturgical colours were retained from the Anglican inheritance and are set out in the modern service books.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. The marriage service descends from the Prayer Book by way of Wesley's abridgement of it for the American societies.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. Sunday is kept for public worship, and the General Rules bind members to attend upon the ordinances of God.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. Prayer stands among the means of grace Wesley called the works of piety, alongside searching the scriptures, the Lord's Supper and fasting.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. The Great Thanksgiving is a full anaphora, restored to Methodist worship in the twentieth century after two hundred years in which the Supper was celebrated from a much shorter form.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. The Great Thanksgiving carries an explicit invocation of the Holy Spirit on the gifts and on the people, which the sixteenth-century English rite did not.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. The breaking of the bread is a distinct action with its own words.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. The Lord's Supper is celebrated as a means of grace and Wesley pressed constant communion on the societies, though quarterly celebration became the practice for most of Methodist history for want of ordained ministers.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. The words of institution stand within the Great Thanksgiving.

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.