Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church ( CME ) is a Christian Church in the Methodist tradition with mainly African American members.
distribution
The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church has 800,000 members in the United States and has missions and sister churches in Haiti , Jamaica , Ghana , Liberia, and Nigeria .
history
The CME was founded as a primarily African American denomination in 1870 when several Methodist preachers sought to ordain their own African American bishops and ministers without relying on the consent of white Americans. Initially, the Afro-American church founders named their church Colored Methodist Episcopal Church . This church name lasted until the middle of the 50s of the 20th century.
CME has a publishing facility in Memphis, Tennessee . In Jackson , Tennessee, which belongs Lane College and in Fairfield, Alabama, the Miles College to church.
Teaching and practice
Doctrine and practice correspond to the Methodist and Wesleyan churches .
Church structure
The church structure essentially corresponds to that of Methodist churches.
The highest authority is the General Conference , which meets every four years and is composed equally of clergy and lay people who are elected by the annual conferences of the episcopal districts.
The bishops are elected by the General Conference and preside over the 10 annual conferences. The community of bishops is the executive of the church.
Ecumenism
The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is a member of the National Council of Churches of Christ , the World Council of Methodist Churches and the World Council of Churches .
The CME has been in merger talks with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church for many years in order to form a common church. In 2004 this merger failed for the time being - among other things because of the agreement on a common name.
Communion exists with the member churches of the Churches Uniting in Christ .
literature
- Othal Hawthorne Lakey: The History of the CME Church (Christian Methodist Episcopal Church) . CME Publishing House, Memphis TN 1996, ISBN 1-883667-20-8 .
swell
- ↑ The Episcopal Districts of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
