Bishops
The information on all the bishops of the AMEZ Church was mainly sourced from James Walker Hood’s One Hundred Years of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church: Or, The Centennial of African Methodism (1895), William Jacob Walls’s The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church: Reality of the Black Church (1974), and the AMEZ Church’s The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, with an Appendix. Revised by the 51st General Conference, Atlanta, GA, July 28 – August 1, 2021 (2021). The following links are lists of the bishops in order of succession, with the years indicating their lives periods.
