<1797 newspaper AFRICAN EPISCOPAL 1st US Black Church FOUNDED in Philadelphia

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<1797 newspaper AFRICAN EPISCOPAL 1st US Black Church FOUNDED in Philadelphia
1797 newspaper with an inside-page announcement of contributions coming in for the AFRICAN EPISCOPAL Church of St. Thomas, FOUNDED in Philadelphia in 1792
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alem Gazette
(MA) dated October 10, 1797 with fantastic early American African American religious history!!
The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas (AECST) was founded in 1792 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the
first black Episcopal Church in the United States
.
Its congregation developed from the Free African Society, a non-denominational group formed by blacks who had left St. George's Methodist Church because of discrimination and segregation by class. They were led by Absalom Jones, a free black and lay Methodist preacher. As his congregation became established, he was ordained in 1802 by Presiding Bishop William White as the first black priest in the Episcopal Church. Bishop White also ordained William Levington as a deacon at this church, although he soon became a missionary in the South, establishing St. James Church in Baltimore in 1824.
The congregation remains within the Episcopal diocese of Philadelphia, although as discussed below its location changed several times. St. Thomas became a leading institution in Philadelphia's black cultural life.
Its second rector was William Douglass, an African American, former student of Rev. Levington, and an abolitionist. Clergy and parishioners were active in the Underground Railroad in the 19th century, and participated in the modern Civil Rights Movement in the mid to late 20th century.
St. Thomas was the first black church in the country to purchase a pipe organ, and the first to hire a black woman as organist, who was Ann Appo. Other notable organists were John C. Bowers and his brother, Thomas J. Bowers.
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