Article: The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church elected a California pastor as its first female bishop at the denomination's 48th quadrennial General Conference in Atlanta.(Briefly noted)(Mildred Hines)(Brief article)

African Methodist Episcopal Zion ...
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.;  January 1, 1993 ;     401 words ... African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Methodist denomination. It was ...

Article: Two black churches talk about merging.(Christian Methodist ...
The Christian Century;  July 31, 2002 ;     668 words ... ... the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church adopting ... with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church as a "working ... members and the AME Zion Church about 1.2 million ... is the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which ...

Article: AME Zion Church gets support in legal ...
The Christian Century;  August 2, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... briefs supporting the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in its lawsuit against a breakaway ... members of Full Gospel AME Zion Church, who left the parent denomination ... congregation sued the AME Zion Church to try to control those assets ...

Article: African Methodist Episcopal Zion ...
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      342 words ...African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Methodist denomination. It was ... 1796 by black members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in New York City and was ... A History of the A.M.E. Zion Church (2 vol., 1956-70).

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.;  January 1, 2000 ;     367 words ...African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Methodist denomination. It ... 1796 by black members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in New York City and was ... A History of the A.M.E. Zion Church (2 vol., 1956-70).

Article: A Maryland appeals court has ruled that a suburban megachurch ...
The Christian Century;  December 2, 2008 ;     641 words ...A Maryland appeals court has ruled that a suburban megachurch that split from the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in 1999 must relinquish millions of dollars in property back to the denomination. The Heart Church Ministries ...

Article: AME Zion Church elects first female ...
Jet;  August 18, 2008 ;     623 words ... ... female bishop elected to serve in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church and the first Bishop elected from the West ... a North Carolina native, pastors First AME Zion Church in Los Angeles. She will spend time in Africa ...