Reformed Zion Union Apostolic Church Explained

Reformed Zion Union Apostolic Churches of America
Main Classification:Protestant
Orientation:Methodist
Polity:Episcopal
Leader:John L. Ghee
Founder:James R. Howell
Founded Date:April 1, 1869
Founded Place:Boydton, VA
Area:United States
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RZUA (Reformed Zion Union Apostolic Churches of America) is a Methodist Christian denomination with a predominantly African-American membership that resides mostly in the South Hill and Tidewater area of Virginia. It was founded in 1869 in Boydton, Virginia as the Zion Union Apostolic Church, and was reorganized as the Reformed Zion Union Apostolic Church in 1882. In 2023 it had 35 congregations.[1] [2]

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Notes and References

  1. Religious bodies: 1916, Part 2 (United States Bureau of the Census, 1919), pp.517ff. Excerpt available at Google Books.
  2. Book: Turner, Nicole Myers . Soul liberty : the evolution of black religious politics in postemancipation Virginia . 2020 . 978-1-4696-5524-6 . University of North Carolina Press . Chapel Hill . 1142012122.