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The Bishops of the A.M.E. Church
(From Founder To The Present)

The Roll Call of A.M.E. Bishops

This is a listing of the Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The information in this list will be expanded in coming weeks.

Number	Name	Consecrated	Years Served
1	Richard Allen	1816	15
2	Morris Brown	1828	17
3	Edward Waters	1836	8
4	William P. Quinn	1844	28
5	Willis Nazrey	1852	23
6	Daniel A. Payne	1852	41
7	Alexander W. Wayman	1864	31
8	Jabez P. Campbell	1864	27
9	James A. Shorter	1868	19
10	Thomas H. D. Ward	1868	26
11	John M. Brown	1868	25
12	Henry M. Turner	1880	35
13	William F. Dickerson	1880	4
14	Richard H. Cain	1880	7
15	Richard S. Disney	1884	7
16	Wesley J. Gaines	1888	24
17	Benjamin W. Arnett	1888	18
18	Benjamin T. Tanner	1888	27
19	Abraham Grant	1888	23
20	Benjamin F. Lee	1892	34
21	Moses B. Salter	1892	21
22	James A. Handy	1892	19
23	William B. Derrick	1896	17
24	Josiah H. Armstrong	1896	2
25	James E. Embry	1896	1
26	Evans Tyree	1900	21
27	Morris M. Moore	1900	�
28	Charles S. Smith	1900	22
29	Cornelius T. Shaffer	1900	19
30	Levi J. Coppin	1900	24
31	Edward W. Lampton	1908	2
32	Henry B. Parks	1908	28
33	Joseph S. Flipper	1908	36
34	John A. Johnson	1908	20
35	William H. Heard	1908	29
36	John Hurst	1912	18
37	William D. Chappelle	1912	13
38	Joshua H. Jones	1912	22
39	James M. Connor	1912	13
40	William W. Beckett	1916	9
41	Isaac N. Ross	1916	11
42	William D. Johnson	1920	16
43	Archibald J. Carey	1920	16
44	William S. Brooks	1920	14
45	William T. Vernon	1920	12
46	William A. Fountain	1920	32
47	Abraham L. Gaines	1924	7
48	Reverdy C. Ransom	1924	28
49	John A. Gregg	1924	29
50	Robert A. Grant	1928	11
51	Sherman L. Greene	1928	39
52	George B. Young	1928	20
53	Monroe H. Davis	1928	24
54	Noah W. Williams	1932	16
55	David Henry Sims	1932	33
56	Henry Young Tookes	1932	20
57	Robert R. Wright Jr.	1936	31
58	Edward J. Howard	1936	5
59	Decatur Ward Nichols	1940	36
60	George E. Curry	1940	6
61	Frank Madison Reid	1940	22
62	Alexander J. Allen	1940	17
63	George W. Baber	1944	26
64	John H. Clayborn	1944	10
65	Lawrence H. Hemingway	1948	6
66	D. Ormonde Walker	1948	7
67	Joseph Gomez	1948	24
68	Isaiah Hamilton Bonner	1948	28
69	William Reid Wilkes	1948	28
70	Carey Abraham Gibbs	1948	24
71	Howard Thomas Primm	1952	28
72	Frederick Douglas Jordan	1952	24
73	Eugene Clifford Hatcher	1952	16
74	Francis H. Gow	1956	12
75	Ernest Lawrence Hickman	1956	20
76	Samuel R. Higgins	1956	5
77	William Franklin Ball Sr.	1956	27
78	Odie Lee Sherman	1956	16
79	John Douglas Bright	1960	12
80	George Napoleon Collins	1960	12
81	George Wayman Blakely	1964	12
82	Harrison James Bryant	1964	12
83	Harold Irvin Bearden	1964	20
84	Hubert Nelson Robinson	1964	20
85	G. Dewey Robinson	1968	4
86	Henry Wendell Murph	1968	20
87	John Hurst Adams	1972
88	Richard Allen Hildebrand	1972	20
89	Samuel Solomon Morris Jr.	1972
90	Frederick Hilborn Talbot	1972
91	Hamel Hartford Brookins	1972
92	Vinton Randolph Anderson	1972
93	Frederick Calhoun James	1972
94	Frank Madison Reid	1972
95	Frank Curtis Cummings	1976
96	Philip Robert Cousin	1976
97	Donald George Ming	1976
98	Rembert Edwards Stokes	1976
99	Cornelius Egbert Thomas	1976
100	James Haskell Mayo	1980
101	John Ellsworth Hunter	1980	5
102	Harold Ben Senatle	1984
103	Robert Lee Pruitt	1984
104	Henry Allen Belin, Jr.	1984
105	Vernon Randolph Byrd	1984
106	John Richard Bryant	1988
107	Robert Thomas	1988
108	Richard Allen Chappelle	1988
109	McKinley Young	1992
110	Zedekiah Lazett Grady	1992
111	Robert Vaughn Webster	1992
112	Cornal Garnett Henning	1992
113	William Phillips DeVeaux	1996
114	Theodore Larry Kirkland	1996
115	Adam Jefferson Richardson	1996
116	Richard Franklin Norris	2000
117	Vashti Murphy McKenzie	2000
118	Gregory Gerald Ingram	2000
119	Preston Warren Williams	2000