| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Allen, Richard |
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| 1760–1831, American clergyman, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was born a slave in Philadelphia. He became pastor of a black group that had seceded from the Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. When the African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized nationally (1816), Allen was consecrated its first bishop. | 1 | | See biographies by M. M. Mathews (1963) and C. V. R. George (1973). | 2 |
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