Cavaness was appointed to the pastoral position by Bishop Samuel Green at the AME First Episcopal District Planning Meeting on Saturday, having previously served as pastor at Bethel AME Church in ...

(RNS) — In early November, the Rev. Carolyn Cavaness was already bracing for a big task — preaching the closing sermon at the fall convocation of the First Episcopal District of the African ...

For the first time in 130 years of African Methodist Episcopalianism in the Island, a Bermudian has been named the local church's bishop. Last week the 46 Quadrennial Conference of the AME Church ...

A: The First Episcopal District is the birthplace of Christian Methodism. In December 1870, the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church South was founded and established in Jackson, Tennessee.

On Friday, Bishop Marvin C. Zanders II, who oversees the AME Church’s 11 th Episcopal District, which includes Florida and the Bahamas, appointed the Rev. Michael B. Price as the 36th pastor and ...