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Bishop Harold Ivory Williams
PRESIDING PRELATE, EMERITUS |
Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr.
INTERNATIONAL PRESIDING PRELATE,
SENIOR BISHOP |
Bishop Hansel Henry
EXECUTIVE VICE BISHOP |
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The Founder of this great church was Bishop
Brumfield Johnson, a young, spirit-filled
minister, associated with the United Holy
Church of America and serving as pastor of
the church in Summit, New Jersey. In 1928,
Bishop Johnson and Elder Robert Pugsley traveled
to Winston-Salem, North Carolina to conduct
a revival. Approximately 250 persons were
saved at this revival, and many of these
new converts desired a church home shepherded
by Bishop Johnson. The Winston-Salem church
was officially incorporated in 1929, as Mount
Calvary Holy Church of America.
Bishop Johnson continued the work started
in Winston-Salem. During a conference in
Summit, New Jersey in 1929, twenty other
ministers joined him. Bishop Johnson then
traveled with an evangelistic team to Huntington,
Long Island, New York where a great revival
was held and many were blessed, healed, and
saved. This led to the establishment of the
Mount Calvary Holy Church in Huntington.
Bishop Johnson and his fledging group of
ministers then traveled to Boston, Massachusetts
where they adopted the principles adhered
to by the Mount Calvary Holy Church. It was
there that the church was chartered on July
27, 1929, with the following persons signing
the charter: Bishop Brumfield Johnson, Bishop
Lee R. Ligons, Rev. Van T. Pope, Rev. William
Bryant, Bro. Augustus A. Granville, Sis.
Josephine M. Spencer, Sis. Bessie L. Lipscomb,
and Sis. Nancy Hall.
In the early 1930s, Mount Calvary began to
spread her wings as churches were planted
in various cities across the country, including
Staten Island, New York, Durham, North Carolina,
and Columbus, Ohio. The first Headquarters
was established in Baltimore, Maryland and
later relocated to Buffalo, New York in 1942.
The Headquarters was then moved to Boston,
Massachusetts in 1960 after the Buffalo church
was destroyed by fire. The National Convocations
were held in Boston until the International
Headquarters was established in Washington,
DC in 1991.
On February 15, 1972, Bishop Brumfield Johnson,
went home to be with the Lord. Just weeks
before his death, Bishop Johnson appointed
Bishop Harold Ivory Williams to serve as
his successor. Bishop Williams led the church
for over 37 years as Senior Bishop. Under
his leadership Mount Calvary grew to include
churches in over fifteen (15) states and
many foreign countries throughout Europe,
Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.
On August 14, 2008, Mount Calvary
entered
into a new season of ministry
as Bishop Williams
chose to take emeritus status
and elevate
his spiritual sons, Bishop Alfred
A. Owens,
Jr., to the office of Presiding
Bishop and
Bishop Hansel H. Henry to the
office of Executive
Vice-Bishop. Bishop Owens becomes
the third
Presiding Bishop in the eighty-year
history
of this great Church, and Mount
Calvary is
now looking forward with great
anticipation
to all that the Lord will continue
to do.
In the words of our Founder,
“Let the heavens
drop, let the skies pour out
righteousness,
and let the earth bring forth
salvation.” |
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