African American Religion History & Culture

Religion Origin
Founder

Current
Members History

African Methodist
Episcopal Church (AME)
https://www.ame-church.com/index.php

1816

Richard Allen

Bishop John Bryant

4 million

African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church (AMEZ) www.amez.org

1821

James Varick

W. R.Johnson III

1.4 million

African Orthodox
Church
https://netministries.org
/see/
churches.exe/
ch26904 1924

George McGuire

George Walter Sands
5,000

Apostolic Assemblies
of Christ
www.apostolic
assemblies
ofchrist.com 1970

George Boone

George Boone
200 Churches

Apostolic Overcoming
Holy Church of God
(AOH)
www.aohchurch.com 1941

William Phillip

G.W. Ayers

Bible Way Church of
Our Lord Jesus Christ
https://www.bibleway
church.org/ 1957

Smallwood Williams

Huie Rodgers
300,000

Black Primitive
Baptist
https://www.pbpage.org/ 1819

Joshua Lawrence

Christian Methodist
Episcopal Church
https://www.c-m-e.org/ 1870

William Miles

WilliamGraves

Church of Christ
(Holiness) U.S.A
www.cochusa.com 1895

Charles Jones

Emery Lindsay
15,000

Church of God in Christ (COGIC)
https://www.cogic.com/ 1895

Charles Mason

Charles Blake
6 Million

Church of God in Chirst International, Inc
https://www.cogic
international.com
/index.html 1969

William David Charles Williams

John Henry Davis

Church of God and
Saints of Christ
https://www.cogasoc
.org/index.html
1896

William Crowdy

Jehu August

Crowdy, Jr
48 Temples

Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith
www.cooljc.org 1919

Robert Lawson

Matthew Norwood
30,000

Church of the
Living God (COLG)
www.houseofgodclg.org 1903

MaryMagdalena Lewis Tate

David Drone

Church of the Living God (CWFF)

www.ctlgcwff.org

1898

William Christian

Presiding Bishop Robert D. Tyler

369 Churches

Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas www.fbhchurch.org 1895

W.E. Fuller Jr.

NathanielRoach
160 Churches

Full Gospel Baptist
Church Fellowship (FGBCF)
www.fullgospel
baptist.org 1992

Paul Morton

Paul Morton

Fundamental Baptist Fellowship Association (FBFA)
https://www.fbfa.us/ 1962

Richard Mattox

Allen McFarland

Mount Sinai Holy
Church of America www.mtsinaiholy
church.org 1925

Ida B. Wells

Joseph Bell
8,000

Nation of Islam

https://www.noi.org

1934

Elijah Muhammed

Louis Farrakhan

National Missionary Baptist Convention of America
https://www.nmbca.com/
home1.html 1988

S.M. Lockridge

C.C. Robertson
1 Million

National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc (NBC) www.nationalbaptist.com 1895

Elias Morris

William J. Shaw
8 Million

National Missionary Baptist Convention of America (NMBC) https://www.nbca-inc.com/ 1915

Edward Jones

Stephen John Thurston
1.7 Million

National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U.S.A https://natlprimbapt
conv.org/ 1907

C. F. Sams

Ernest Ferrell
616
churches

Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (PAW) www.pawinc.org 1919

G. T. Haywood

Horace Smith

Progressive National Baptist Convention (PNBC)
www.pnbc.org 1961

T.M. Chambers

T. Dewitt Smith
2.5 Million

Spiritual Israel Church and its Army (SICIA)
https://www.siciay
psilanti.org/ 1920

Derks Field

Bobby J. Davis
25 Temples

United American Free Will Baptist Conference
https://uafwbc.org/ 1968

Henry Rodmon
43 churches

United Holy Church of America Inc (UHCA)www.uhca.org 1918

Elijah Williams
516 churches

United House of Prayer for all People www.tuhopfap.org 1919

Charles Grace

C. M. Bailey
1.5 Million