Francis Asbury
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Francis Asbury was a British-American Methodist minister who became one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. During his 45 years in the colonies and the new
Portrait by John Paradise, c. 1813
Bishop Asbury Cottage, Asbury's boyhood home at Great Barr
The Ordination of Bishop Asbury, an engraving of an 1882 painting of the scene
Francis Asbury Memorial
Richard Allen (bishop)
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Richard Allen was an American minister, educator, writer, and one of the United States' most active and influential black leaders. In 1794, he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first
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…meetings and conferences. Under his direction, the church grew from 1,200 to 214,000 members and 700 ordained preachers. Among the men he ordained was Richard Allen in Philadelphia, the first black Methodist minister in the United States who later founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first independent…
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Painting of Allen on display at the World Methodist Museum, Lake Junaluska, North Carolina