The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas was founded in 1792 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the first black Episcopal Church in the United States. Its congregation developed from the Free African
African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas (1829), lithograph by William L. Breton.
William Levington
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William Levington was an African-American clergyman and teacher. The third African American ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States, he established the first African-American
African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas
…established, he was ordained in 1802 by Presiding Bishop William White as the first black priest in the Episcopal Church. Bishop White also ordained William Levington as a deacon at this church, although he soon became a missionary in the South, establishing St. James Church in Baltimore in 1824. The congregation…
St. James First African Protestant Episcopal Church in 1926