The African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1816 in Philadelphia under Richard Allen, who had withdrawn from a segregated Methodist Episcopal congregation and built the first independent Black Methodist denomination in the United States. The AME Church holds Wesleyan-Arminian theology and the historic Articles of Religion under an episcopal polity, ordains both men and women, and has preserved a central role in Black Christian witness and in the civil-rights tradition. AskCredo places the AME Church in the C-tier as a broadly Wesleyan-orthodox body on gospel essentials, doctrinally non-Reformed on soteriology and sanctification, and — in common with the broader AME Zion, CME, and UMC orbit — under sustained internal debate over contemporary sexual-ethics questions. Its historic witness on human dignity and abolition remains a significant moral legacy.
Methodist Articles of Religion
episcopal
arminian
North America · Founded 1816
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