AME FACTS / TRIVIA

There were four pioneers instrumental in the development of the AME Church.  Those men were known as the Four Horsemen.

They were:

Henry McNeil Turner - Twelfth Bishop of the AME Church.  Appointed  as the first Chaplain of the regular US Army by President Johnson (after serving as Chaplain of the "Negro Troops").  Established the AME Church in West & South Africa. 

Daniel Payne - Sixth Bishop of the AME Church.  First Bishop in the AME Church to have formal theological seminary training.  Most responsible for the AME Church's attention toward trained Ministry.  Founded Wilberforce University in 1856.

William Paul Quinn - Fourth Bishop of the AME Church.  Organized Churches in Missouri and Kentucky.  Delivered the first written Episcopal Address at the General Conference in 1848.

Richard Allen - Founder and First Bishop

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FAMOUS AME MINISTERS:

Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1822 – January 16, 1901) was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate. Since he preceded any African American in the House, he was the first African American in the U.S. Congress as well. He represented Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during Reconstruction.  Revels was ordained a minister in 1845. As a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Revels preached in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, and Maryland in the 1850s. "At times, I met with a great deal of opposition," he later recalled. "I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence." In 1845 he became a minister in Baltimore, Maryland and set up a private school.