One of the world's largest Holiness or Pentecostal denominations, with a predominantly Black membership estimated at close to 6.5 million, the Church of God in Christ was organized in 1897 in ...

The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) General Assembly, the legislative body of the denomination, has voted Bishop J. Drew Sheard of Detroit, Michigan as the leader of the worldwide organization.

G.E. Patterson, the presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ and a minister for almost 50 years, died of heart failure Tuesday in Memphis, Tenn., the church announced.