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This Date in History: African-American Bishop

By , About.com GuideJune 11, 2006

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June 11, 1789: Richard Allen was ordained a deacon of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Allen would later go on to found the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and become the first African-American bishop in the United States.
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