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A.M.E. Church

The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the "A.M.E. Church," is a Christian denomination founded by Richard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1816. (It is not the same as the U.A.M.E. Church founded in Delaware by Peter Spencer in 1813.)

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