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ELECTION RESULTS
50th QUADRENNIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE of the AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH • • • Wednesday July 6, 2016 to Wednesday July 13, 2016 Pennsylvania Convention Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Bishop Gregory and Rev Jessica Ingram, Presiding Prelate and Episcopal Supervisor, First Episcopal District AME Church Host Bishop |
CHAIR OF EPISCOPAL COMMITTEE
Rev. Dr. Harold R. Mayberry
GENERAL OFFICERS
Treasurer/CFO
Dr. Richard Allen Lewis
General Secretary/CIO
Rev. Dr. Jeffery Bernard Cooper
AMEC Department of Retired Services
Rev. Dr. Jerome Harris
Global Witness and Ministry
Rev. Dr. George Flowers
Historiographer/Director of Research & Scholarship
Editor of AME Review
Rev. Dr. Teresa Fry Brown
President/Publisher, Sunday School Union
Rev. Roderick Dwayne Belin
Editor Of The Christian Recorder
Mr. John Thomas, III
Department of Christian Education
Rev. Dr. Garland Pierce
Church Growth and Development
Rev. Dr. James C. Wade
JUDICIAL COUNCIL
Clergy Member
Rev. Dr. Leon Thomas Bess
Clergy Alternate
N/A
Lay Member
Derek Anderson
Warren Dawson, Esq.
Patricia Mayberry, Esq.
Tania Wright, Esq.
Lay Alternate
Starr L. Battle, Esq.
BISHOP
Rev. Dr. Harry Seawright - 1st Ballot
133 Bishop
Rev. Dr. Michael Mitchell - 1st Ballot
134 Bishop
*Rev. Dr. Anne Henning Byfield - 2nd Ballot
135 Bishop
Rev. Dr. Ronnie Brailsford - 2nd Ballot
136th Bishop
Rev. Dr. Stafford Wicker - 3rd Ballot
137th Bishop
**Rev. Dr. Frank Madison Reid, III - 4th Ballot
138th Bishop
*Delighted that Rev. Dr. Anne Henning Byfield was elected BISHOP during yesterday’s elections. Bishop Byfield pastored my home church in Detroit before becoming a Presiding Elder of one of the Indiana Conference (4th District). She is the fourth woman ever elected in our AME Church History. Bishop Henning is also the first (biological) Sister elected with a (biological) Brother who also served as Bishop. Bishop C. Garnett Henning retired from active service in 2012.
**Rev. Dr. Frank Madison Reid is a third generation Bishop in the AME Church. Both his father and grandfather were elected and consecrated Bishops in the AME Church.
CHAIR OF EPISCOPAL COMMITTEE
Rev. Dr. Harold R. Mayberry
GENERAL OFFICERS
Treasurer/CFO
Dr. Richard Allen Lewis
General Secretary/CIO
Rev. Dr. Jeffery Bernard Cooper
AMEC Department of Retired Services
Rev. Dr. Jerome Harris
Global Witness and Ministry
Rev. Dr. George Flowers
Historiographer/Director of Research & Scholarship
Editor of AME Review
Rev. Dr. Teresa Fry Brown
President/Publisher, Sunday School Union
Rev. Roderick Dwayne Belin
Editor Of The Christian Recorder
Mr. John Thomas, III
Department of Christian Education
Rev. Dr. Garland Pierce
Church Growth and Development
Rev. Dr. James C. Wade
JUDICIAL COUNCIL
Clergy Member
Rev. Dr. Leon Thomas Bess
Clergy Alternate
N/A
Lay Member
Derek Anderson
Warren Dawson, Esq.
Patricia Mayberry, Esq.
Tania Wright, Esq.
Lay Alternate
Starr L. Battle, Esq.
BISHOP
Rev. Dr. Harry Seawright - 1st Ballot
133 Bishop
Rev. Dr. Michael Mitchell - 1st Ballot
134 Bishop
*Rev. Dr. Anne Henning Byfield - 2nd Ballot
135 Bishop
Rev. Dr. Ronnie Brailsford - 2nd Ballot
136th Bishop
Rev. Dr. Stafford Wicker - 3rd Ballot
137th Bishop
**Rev. Dr. Frank Madison Reid, III - 4th Ballot
138th Bishop
*Delighted that Rev. Dr. Anne Henning Byfield was elected BISHOP during yesterday’s elections. Bishop Byfield pastored my home church in Detroit before becoming a Presiding Elder of one of the Indiana Conference (4th District). She is the fourth woman ever elected in our AME Church History. Bishop Henning is also the first (biological) Sister elected with a (biological) Brother who also served as Bishop. Bishop C. Garnett Henning retired from active service in 2012.
**Rev. Dr. Frank Madison Reid is a third generation Bishop in the AME Church. Both his father and grandfather were elected and consecrated Bishops in the AME Church.
