African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas
- African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas
The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, founded in 1792 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as an outgrowth of the Free African Society, was the first black Episcopal Church in the United States. Led by Absalom Jones, one of the first African Americans to be ordained in any religion, the Church became one of the major features in Philadelphia's black cultural life. [ [http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2755/Jones-Absalom.html Absalom Jones Biography] ]
The Church became the first black church in the country to purchase a pipe organ, and then the first to hire a black woman as organist, Ann Appo. [Southern, pg. 603]
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* [http://www.aecst.org/about.htm About St. Thomas]
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