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Article: AME elects first woman bishop.(African Methodist Episcopal Church elects Vashti McKenzie bishop)(Brief Article)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- July 19, 2000
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Vashti McKenzie, pastor of a prominent Baltimore church, was elected July 11 as a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church --the first woman to hold the post in the denomination's 213-year history. "The stained glass ceiling has been cracked, has been broken," McKenzie said in an interview shortly before her consecration at the quadrennial General Conference of the 2.3-million-member denomination.
McKenzie, one of four bishops elected at the meeting in Cincinnati, received the second highest number of votes--874--in the second round of balloting in the bishops' election. A minimum of 767 votes was needed for election, which occurred at a more rapid pace ...