Alexander Preston Shaw - Episcopal Ministry

Episcopal Ministry

The Rev. Dr. Alexander Preston Shaw was elected to the Episcopacy of the Methodist Episcopal Church and consecrated a Bishop (the highest office in the Methodist ministry) by the 1936 General Conference. Bishop Shaw was assigned to the New Orleans Episcopal Area (1936-40), and then to the Baltimore Episcopal Area of the Central Jurisdiction of The Methodist Church (1940-52). As Resident Bishop of the Baltimore Area, he served as the Presiding Bishop of the Delaware, East Tennessee, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. Annual Conferences of the Central Jurisdiction. These conferences together included some 1,300 African American Methodist churches and about 100,000 church members.

Bishop Shaw also served on the so-called Committee of Twenty-eight, the Board of Education, the Board of Missions, the Board of Temperance, and the Committee on World Peace. His office while Bishop of the Baltimore Area was located at 1206 Etting St., Baltimore 17. His home was at 828 North Carrollton Ave., Baltimore.