Happy Birthday Bishop Richard Allen
Mon, Feb 14
|United States
Educator, writer, and one of the United States' most active and influential black leaders. In 1794, he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the first independent Black denomination in the United States.
Time & Location
Feb 14, 2028, 12:00 AM – 11:50 PM
United States, United States
About This Event
Richard Allen (February 14, 1760 – March 26, 1831)[1] was a minister, educator, writer, and one of the United States' most active and influential black leaders.
In 1794, he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME),
the first independent Black denomination in the United States.
He opened his first AME church in 1794 in Philadelphia.[2]
Elected the first bishop of the AME Church in 1816, Allen focused on organizing a denomination in which
free black people could worship without racial oppression and