Reverend Floyd Flake is senior pastor at the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica, Queens.

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Martin Luther King Jr. at Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the most historic churches in Washington.

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Some large contemporary black denominations, like the African Methodist Episcopal church, were formed because blacks couldn't find acceptance in white churches.

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In a speech before the African Methodist Episcopal Church convention in St.

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Hunter is one of the date's organizers and senior minister of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church based in L.A. Thank you so much for coming on.

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On Sunday morning, Eric Schneiderman, the Democratic nominee for attorney general, traveled Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn to address congregants at Bridge Street African Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church, the borough's oldest continuing black congregation.

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Mason for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1834.

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Unquestionably, the United Methodist, Episcopal and Lutheran bishops are vying for the title.

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Almost every American town is dotted by historic Episcopal, United Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches.

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