Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate

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Mary Magdalena Street Lewis Tate
Born
Mary Lena Street

(1871-01-05)January 5, 1871[1][2]
Vanleer, Tennessee
DiedDecember 28, 1930(1930-12-28) (aged 59)[3]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
OccupationEvangelist
Known forThe Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth

Mary Magdalena Street Lewis Tate ("Mother Tate") (January 3, 1871 – December 28, 1930) was an African American evangelist. She was the first American woman to serve as a Bishop in a nationally recognized denomination.[4] She founded a Pentecostal denomination, The Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth, in 1903. Its first convocation was held in June 1903 in Greenville, Alabama.[1] The church was the first Pentecostal Holiness church in America founded by a woman,[5] and spread to at least twenty states. At least seven denominations currently trace their history back to her church.[4]

  1. ^ a b Smith, Jessie Carney, ed. (1996). Notable Black American women II (1st ed.). Detroit: Gale Research. pp. 625–627. ISBN 978-0810391772.
  2. ^ Simmons, Martha; Thomas, Frank A., eds. (2010). Preaching with sacred fire : an anthology of African American sermons, 1750 to the present (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton. pp. 339–344. ISBN 978-0393058314.
  3. ^ Shuford, F. Dovey. "Mother Mary Magdelena S. L. Tate (1871–1930)". Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Miller was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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