Notable Clergy and Educators
- Bishop Vinton Randolph Anderson (1927 - ) First African American to be elected President of the World Council of Churches (served January 1991 - December 1998); author of My Soul Shouts and subject of an edited work (Gayraud Wilmore & Louis Charles Harvey, editors, A Model of A Servant Bishop; first native Bermudian elected a bishop in any church/denomination
- Bishop Richard Harvey Cain - elected member of US House of Representatives from SC during Reconstruction
- Bishop Reverdy Cassius Ransom - creative founder of NAACP via The Niagara Movement concept
- Bishop William Heard (1850–1937), AME minister and educator. Appointed by the U.S. government as "Minister Resident/Consul General" to Liberia (1895–1898)
- Bishop Daniel Payne (1811–1893), historian, educator and AME minister. First African-American president of an African-American university, Wilberforce University, in the U.S.
- Dr. Jamye Coleman Williams (1918 -), educator, community leader. Former editor of the AME Church Review; recipient of the NAACP Presidential Award (1999).
- Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, first female AME bishop in church history, best-selling author.
- Bishop Carolyn Tyler Guidry (1937- ), second female AME bishop in church history. "Carolyn Tyler Guidry",
- Rev. Dr. Floyd H. Flake (1945- ), former U.S. Congressman from New York (1986–1998); senior pastor of the Greater Allen AME Cathedral in Jamaica, New York; current President of Wilberforce University
- Rev. Lyman S. Parks (1917–2009), Mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan (1971–1976); Pastor of First Community AME Church in Grand Rapids.
- Rev. Dr. Frank M. Reid III (1951-) Pastor of the Bethel A.M.E. Church in Baltimore link title. Rev. Reid started "The Bethel Outreach of Love" Broadcast; Bethel was the first AME Church to have an international TV broadcast. Was selected as the 26th most influential person in Baltimore by Baltimore Magazine. His congregation's members include the mayor and city comptroller of Baltimore. He consulted for the TV show Amen, and guest starred several times on the popular HBO series The Wire.
- Rev. Henry Aaron Joubert (1940–2004), leader of Cape Town, South Africa, administrator, builder and respected leader. Rendered untiring service in adverse situations in South Africa.
- Rev. King Solomon Dupont - AME clergy who in the 1950s was the first African American to seek public office in northern Florida since Reconstruction era; as VP of the Tallahassee Civic Association, he led a bus boycott, in which protesters lives were threatened, simultaneous to the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955.
- D. Ormonde Walker, 66th bishop of the AME Church and 10th president of Wilberforce University
- Rev. Dr. Jamal Harrison Bryant (1971- ) Dr. Bryant founded Empowerment Temple AME in 2000 with a congregation of 43 people. Today more than 7,500 members attend weekly services at Empowerment Temple in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Executive Producer Keith E. Andrews II (2007-)founded Le HAPCU (The HIV/AIDS Prevention & Care Unit), under the supervision of Bishop John R. Bryant. The mission of Le HAPCU Inc. is to install, equip, and maintain HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Units throughout the African Methodist Episcopal Church Worldwide.” website: www.lehapcu.ning.com
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