Church of God in Christ
The Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ is currently Bishop Charles E. Blake. His duties are to oversee and supervise everything religious that goes on in the denomination. He was preceded in this position by Bishop G.E. Patterson.
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Famous quotes containing the words church of, church, god and/or christ:
“When the Church of Jesus
Shuts its outer door,
Lest the roar of traffic
Drown the voice of prayer:
May our prayers, Lord, make us
Ten times more aware
That the world we banish
Is our Christian care.”
—Frederick Pratt Green (b. 1903)
“Waste and void. Waste and void. And darkness on the face of the deep.
Has the Church failed mankind, or has mankind failed the
Church?”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves.... And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse
Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)