Centennial encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Subtitle: containing principally the biographies of the men and women, both ministers and laymen, whose labors during a hundred years, helped make the A.M.E. Church what it is : also short historical sketches of annual conferences, educational institutions, general departments, missionary societies of the A.M.E. Church, and general information about African Methodism and the Christian church in general being a literary contribution to the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church denomination by Richard Allen and others, at Philadelphia, Penna., in 1816
By: by Richard R. Wright, Jr. ; assisted by John R. Hawkins ; introduction by Bishop L.J. Coppin
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: History; Biography; Bishops; Clergy; African Americans; African American Methodists; Religion; African American clergy; African Methodist Episcopal Church
Other titles: Centennial encyclopedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; Encyclopedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: A collection of articles and biographical sketches relevant to the history of the African Methodist Church. The book begins with articles about the Church's history and contemporary status written by various church leaders, including a comprehensive chronology. The second section of the book is devoted to hundreds of biographical sketches. The last section contains detailed entries on the Church's regional conferences and divisions, including people, places, and financial and membership statistics.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.

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Transcribed from: Centennial encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church : containing principally the biographies of the men and women, both ministers and laymen, whose labors during a hundred years, helped make the A.M.E. Church what it is ... / by Richard R. Wright, Jr., A.M., B.D., Ph. D., Editor of The Christian Recorder, Editor-in-chief ; assisted by John R. Hawkins, Financial Secretary of the A.M.E. Church, formerly Secretary of Education, A.M.E. Church, Associate editor ; introduction by Bishop L.J. Coppin, thirtieth Bishop of the A.M.E. Church. Philadelphia, Pa. : printed by Book Concern of the A.M.E. Church, 1916. 392 p. : ill., ports. ; 30 cm. "1816 - 1916" at head of t.-p. Includes index.

Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.

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