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- Title
- Methodists name Negro bishop for white area.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31233 METHODISTS NAME NEGRO BISHOP FOR WHITE AREA SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Bishop Prince A Taylor Jr., (left) will be the first Negro bishop of The Methodist Church to supervise a predominantly white area. His assignment to direct the work of Methodist churches in a newly-created episcopal area in New Jersey, with headquarters at Princeton, was made during the quadrennial meeting of the Northeast Jurisdiction of the denomination at Syracuse, N.Y. He is shown here with Bishop Newell S. Booth, who also was assigned to a new episcopal area, in Central Pennsylvania with headquarters in Harrisburg. Both recently served in Africa -- Bishop Taylor in Liberia and Bishop Booth in the Congo. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (MC-DC-7A-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Methodist Information (Pittsburgh, Pa.) (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, June 25, 1964, June 25, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Taylor, Prince Albert, 1907-2001., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Bishops., Booth, Newell S. (Newell Snow), 1903-
- Topical Subject(s)
- Bishops--New York (State)--Syracuse., African American bishops--New York (State)--Syracuse., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity., Returned missionaries--Liberia., Returned missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Geographic subjects
- New York (State), Syracuse., New York (State), Syracuse., Liberia., Congo (Democratic Republic), Syracuse (N.Y.)
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. P-31233; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_P-31233
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:350240