AME History
AME Structure
AME Bishops
Pastor Tyer
Philadelphia
100
In 2016, the US Post Office honored and dedicated a postal stamp after this AME Bishop.
Who was Bishop Richard Allen?
100
The person is in full charge of the Church and is an ex-official member of all boards, organizations and clubs of the Church.
Who is the Pastor?
100
This Bishop currently oversees the first district, he's been a guest speaker at our church and also has been a guest facilitator at the Shorter Leadership Conference.
Who is Bishop Gregory Ingram
100
This AME college is located in Atlanta Ga. Pastor Tyler graduated with a BA degree in Journalism in 1988 from this school.
Where is Morris Brown College?
100
This famous 1975 boxer ran up the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art at the end of this famous movie.
Who was Rocky?
200
The officers at this church pulled African Parishioners off their knees while praying at the alter.
What is St. George Methodist Episcopal Church?
200
This person is the assistant, whom the Bishops appoints to supervise the preachers in a District.
Who is the Presiding Elder?
200
This bishop retired in 2012 in Nashville Tennessee. She is the mother of someone we see every Sunday and we know very well.
Who is Retired AME Bishop Carolyn Tyler Guidry?
200
Pastor Tyler's first assignment was located in Atlanta Ga at this church.
Where is Wilkes Chapel AME Church?
200
This church is the mother church in the African Methodist Episcopal Denomination. The church is located on 6th and Lombard Street.
What is Mother Bethel AME Church
300
The AMEC grew out of this society which Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, and others established in Philadelphia in 1787.
What is the Free African Society?
300
These people are elected for life by a majority vote of the General Conference which meets every four years. They are bound by the laws of the church to retire upon the General Conference nearest their 75th birthday.
What is a Bishop of the AME Church?
300
(This is a two part question) This Bishop oversees several states in the western half of the US. His jurisdiction covers as far east to the state of Missouri, to the far northwest, Washington State to the far south west, New Mexico.
Who is Bishop T Larry Kirkland Where is the 5th District?
300
Pastor Tyler is a member of a social group that supports the community. Their colors are red and white and they are known as " the pretty boys on college campuses"
What is Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity?
300
Philadelphia is known for this famous sandwich that consist of thinly sliced steak sautéed in oil with onions and peppers, covered in cheese on a long sub bun.
What is a philly cheese steak
400
This Bishop pushed African Methodism across the Atlantic into Liberia and Sierra Leone in 1891 and into South Africa in 1896, the AME now laid claim to adherents on two continents.
Who was Bishop Henry M. Turner ?
400
This is the supreme body of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It is composed of the Bishops, as ex-officio presidents, according to the rank of election, and an equal number of ministerial and lay delegates, elected by each of the Annual Conferences and the Lay Electoral Colleges of the Annual Conferences.
What is the General Conference?
400
This is a two part question This Bishop presides over Malawi North, Malawi South, Malawi Central, Northeast Zimbabwe, Southwest Zimbabwe, Central Zimbabwe in Africa
Who is Bishop Reginald Jackson? Where is the 20th District of the AME Church?
400
Pastor Tyler is an active community advocate for justice. A couple of years ago he led the fight in the community, getting justice for a street preacher who was killed at the hands of the Denver Sheriff Officers.
Who was Marvin Booker
400
William Penn, the English Quaker, envisioned Philadelphia as a place where anyone of any color or background could live together in peace and harmony. Philadelphia is known as this type of city.
What is the City of Brotherly Love
500
This bishop established the Canada Annual Conference in the 1850s. A college was named after this Bishop, it is located in Atlanta and Pastor Tyler did attend this college to get is undergraduate degree.
Who was Bishop Morris Brown?
500
This committee appoints bishops to their districts every four years at the General Conference of the AME Church.
What is the Episcopal Committee?
500
This Bishop has a unique assignment, he oversees Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland and Guyana/Suriname, Virgin Islands, European, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Winward Islands.
Who is Bishop John Franklin White? Where is the 16th and the 18th District?
500
Pastor Tyler is known for justice advocacy in Denver, but at Shorter he is well known paying bills and mortgages, providing free haircuts and giving community members a sense of hope during a hopeless time in America.
What is Cutting through the Crisis?
500
This place is the birthplace of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
What is Independence Hall?