United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, 39.95233, -75.163791876Richard Allen (center), the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination, is depicted with other bishops in an 1876 lithograph. Established in Pennsylvania in 1816, the AME Church arrived in Georgia at the close of the Civil War, as missionaries from the denomination entered the state with Union troops.Image of an 1876 lithograph in which Richard Allen (center), the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination, is depicted with other bishops. The images of the bishops are surrounded by scenes including Wilberforce University, the oldest private African-American university in the United States; Payne Institute, an historically African-American school that later became Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina; and the A.M.E. church book depository in Philadelphia.Established in Pennsylvania in 1816, the AME Church arrived in Georgia at the close of the Civil War, as missionaries from the denomination entered the state with Union troops.image/jpegLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-6170http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/african-methodist-episcopal-church-ame-churchhttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/methodist-church-overviewForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/african-methodist-episcopal-church-ame-churchhttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/methodist-church-overviewForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaBishops--Pennsylvania--PhiladelphiaClergy--Pennsylvania--PhiladelphiaAfrican American clergy--Pennsylvania--PhiladelphiaMen--Pennsylvania--PhiladelphiaAfrican American men--Pennsylvania--PhiladelphiaAfrican American bishops--Pennsylvania--PhiladelphiaAfrican American Methodists--Pennsylvania--PhiladelphiaUniversities and colleges--Ohio--WilberforceUniversities and colleges--South Carolina--ColumbiaAfrican American universities and colleges--Ohio--WilberforceAfrican American universities and colleges--South Carolina--ColumbiaLibraries--Pennsylvania--PhiladelphiaAfrican Methodist Episcopal ChurchAllen, Richard, 1760-1831Brown, Morris, 1770-1849Waters, Edward, d. 1847Quinn, William Paul, 1788-1873Nazrey, Willis, 1808-1875Payne, Daniel Alexander, 1811-1893Wayman, A. W. (Alexander Walker), 1821-1895Campbell, Jabez Pitt, 1815-1891Shorter, James A., 1817-1887Ward, Thomas M. D.Brown, John Mifflin, b. 1817AME Church BishopsStillImage