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Article: AME Zion Church elects first female bishop.(RELIGION)(African Methodist Episcopal's Mildred Hines )(Brief article)
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- August 18, 2008
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Rev. Dr. Mildred "Bonnie" Hines told JET magazine that the year she graduated from high school, in 1973, she told a group of friends that she would one day be the first female elected in her denomination.
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"This was before I even started pastoring," she chuckled. "I knew then that it was going to happen."
Hines recently made history as the first female bishop elected to serve in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church and the first Bishop elected from the West Coast during the denomination's 48th Quadrennial Session ...