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Spiritual Traditions

African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church

1816 – present

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; later the U.S. South and Africa

Independent Black Methodist denomination organized in Philadelphia in 1816, when Bethel Church and allied congregations elected Richard Allen bishop; it expanded across the South after the Civil War and into Africa.

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Bethel A.M.E. Church on Druid Hill Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, an AME congregation in an 1868 building
Credit: Baltimore Heritage, via Flickr. License: Public domain.

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Sources

  1. PBS, This Far by Faith, "African Methodist Episcopal Church" (Reference)
  2. Allyson C. Criner, NCpedia (Encyclopedia of North Carolina), "African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church" (Scholarly)
  3. Christina Dickerson-Cousin, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, "The African Methodist Episcopal Church in Africa" (Scholarly)

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