J. Delano Ellis

Jesse Delano Ellis II, known as J. Delano Ellis, (December 11, 1944 – September 19, 2020) was a leader in African American Pentecostalism in the United States. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He was the founding president/chairman and Archbishop Metropolitan of the Joint College of Bishops. Ellis also created and was presiding prelate of the Apostolic/Oneness United Pentecostal Churches of Christ (today the United Covenant Churches of Christ) and Pentecostal Churches of Christ. 

He was the senior pastor of the Pentecostal Church of Christ in Cleveland, Ohio, a ministry to which he was called on May 14, 1989.

Ellis died on September 19, 2020 in Cleveland at the age of 75.

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