Absalom Jones
ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, First Negro in the United
States to be ordained, in any denomination [of] the ministry. Like Richard
Allen, Jones was a leader of the colored people of Philadelphia. He had been a
slave and purchased his freedom. He was a member of St. George's Methodist
Episcopal Church, and withdrew with Richard Allen and jointly with him founded
the Free African Society and the Independent African Church. He was the first Negro
to be ordained to the ministry of the Episcopal Church.
SOURCE: Monroe N. Work, Negro
Year Book: An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro 1921-1922, p. 199
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