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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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Bishop
Thomas L. Hoyt, Jr. Installed as the
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Senior
Bishop of the Christian
Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.) Church
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at the 37th
General Conference
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Senior Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt,
Jr.
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(Mobile, Alabama – July 4, 2010) Bishop Thomas
Lanier Hoyt, Jr., the 48th Bishop of
the Christian Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.)
Church, was installed as the Senior Bishop of
the denomination on June 30, 2010 at the
thirty-sixth quadrennial Session and the
thirty-seventh General Conference in Mobile,
Alabama.
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Bishop Hoyt, elected to the
Episcopacy at the 1994 General Conference, is
currently the Presiding Prelate of the Seventh
Episcopal District.
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Bishop Hoyt is a
distinguished scholar in theological education.
His academic training is both thorough and
extensive. Bishop Hoyt earned the BA degree
from Lane College, Jackson, TN in 1962, the
M.Div. degree from Phillips School of Theology
of The Interdenominational Theological Center in
Atlanta, GA, the S.T.M. degree from the Union
Theological Seminary in New York in 1967, and
the Ph.D. degree from Duke University, Durham,
NC in 1975. He was awarded the Doctor of
Divinity degree from Trinity College in 1994.
His ministry included pastoral service of
several CME churches in North Carolina and New
York and more than twenty years as a professor
of theology. He has served as Assistant
Professor of New Testament at the
Interdenominational Theological Center in
Atlanta, GA, the School of Religion at Howard
University in Washington, D.C., and Professor of
New Testament and Director, Black Ministries
Certificate Program at Hartford Seminary in
Hartford, CT. Bishop Hoyt's most renown
lectures were the Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale
Divinity School in 1993, one of the oldest and
most prestigious lectureships in the academic
community.
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Bishop Hoyt has written more
than thirty-five articles for professional
journals and publications, and has shared in
group projects that resulted in published books,
including the influential Stony the Road We
Trod: An African American Biblical
Interpretation. Ed. by Cain Hope Felder
(Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992).
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President Hoyt served as the
president of the National Council of Churches
from 2004-2005. Awards and honors bestowed on
Bishop Hoyt are numerous, including a visit to
Pope John Paul II with a delegation from the
National Council of Churches, delegate to the
World Council of Churches in Porto, Alegre,
Brazil in 1987, and CME representative at the
World Council of Churches meeting on Faith and
Order at Santiago De Compstela, Spain in 1993.
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Upon his election to the
Episcopacy, Bishop Hoyt was assigned to the
Fourth Episcopal District. Bishop Hoyt was
assigned to the Seventh Episcopal District at
the 2006 General Conference. He is the Chair of
the Department of Finance of the CME
Church. Bishop Hoyt served as the Chair of the
Department of Lay Ministry for twelve years, and
the 125th CME Church
Anniversary Celebration Committee.
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Bishop Hoyt is married to
Ocie (nee Oden) Hoyt, and is the father of two
children, Doria and Thomas III. His office and
headquarters are in Washington, DC.
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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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