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For Immediate Release
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For additional information, contact:
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Bishop Henry M. Williamson, Sr.
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Chairman, Commission of Social Justice and
Human Concerns
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Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
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Telephone: 323-294-3830
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The
Christian Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.)
Church
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Elects
Five New Bishops at their Historical 37th
General Conference
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Left
to right: Newly-elected
C.M.E. Bishops James
B.Walker, W.E. Lockett,
Sylvester Williams, Teresa
Snorton
and Godwin T. Umoette
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(Mobile, Alabama –
July 4, 2010) The Christian Methodist
Episcopal (C.M.E.) Church, convening for its
thirty-six quadrennial session and
thirty-seventh General Conference in Mobile,
Alabama during June 26-July 4, 2010, elected
five new bishops including a female and an
indigenous bishop for Africa. The theme of
the General Conference was, “An Essential
Church”: Poised for 21st Century
Ministry.”
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Bishop James B. Walker
was elected the 56th bishop of the C.M.E.
Church. He is the former pastor of Phillips C.M.E. Church in
Hartford, Connecticut.
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Bishop W.E. Lockett was
elected the 57th
bishop. He is the former pastor of
Metropolitan C.M.E. Church in Houston,
Texas, .
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Bishop Sylvester Williams
was elected the 58th bishop.
He is the former pastor of Carter Temple
C.M.E. Church in Chicago, Illinois.
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Bishop Teresa Snorton was
elected the 59th bishop and the first
female bishop of the denomination. She
is the Executive Director of the National
Association for Clinical Pastoral Education,
Inc. (ACPE) in Atlanta, Georgia,
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Bishop Godwin Umoette was
elected the 60th bishop and the indigenous
bishop for Africa. He served as a distinguished Professor of
Political Science at the University of Uyo,
Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, and pastor of
Bishop Marshall Gilmore Cathedral CME
Church, Uyo, .
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The Christian Methodist
Episcopal Church, under the leadership of
Senior Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt, Jr. and its
College of Bishops, is a 139-year old
historically African American Christian
denomination with more than 1.2 million
members across the United States, and has
missions and sister churches in Haiti,
Jamaica, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and the
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Sudan/Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda Rwanda
and Burundi. For additional information
about the CME Church, visit
www.c-m-e.org .
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- Senior Bishop Thomas L.
Hoyt, Jr., CEO
- Bishop Paul A. G.
Stewart, Sr.
- Bishop Lawrence L.
Reddick, III
- Bishop Henry M.
Williamson, Sr.,
- Bishop Thomas L. Brown,
Sr.
- Bishop Kenneth W. Carter
- Bishop James B.
Walker
- Bishop W.E. Lockett
- Bishop Sylvester
Williams
- Bishop Teresa
Snorton
- Bishop Godwin T. Umoette
- Bishop William H. Graves,
Retired
- Bishop Othal H. Lakey,
Retired
- Bishop Edward Lynn Brown,
Retired
- Bishop Ronald M.
Cunningham, Retired
- Bishop Dotcy I. Isom,
Jr., Retired
- Bishop Marshall Gilmore,
Retired
- Bishop Nathaniel Linsey,
Retired
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