List of Jurisdictions of the Church of God in Christ

The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Pentecostal-Holiness Christian denomination with a predominantly African-American membership. The denomination reports having more than 12,000 churches and over 6.5 million members in the United States.[1] The National Council of Churches ranks it as the fifth largest Christian denomination in the U.S.[2]

Internationally, COGIC can be found in more than 100 nations. Its worldwide membership is estimated to be between six and eight million,[3] composing more than 25,000 congregations throughout the world. The following is a list of the geographical dioceses of the denomination, which are called "jurisdictions", and the leader of each.*

*TBD = To Be Determined – when the Office of Bishop is vacant for a diocese/jurisdiction in the case of the death, retirement, or abdication of a bishop, or if the jurisdiction is newly formed and has no bishop yet.

*Bishop-designate = A "Bishop-designate" or "Bishop-designee" is someone who has been selected to be a candidate for the Office of Bishop for a specific jurisdiction in the denomination, but has not yet been officially ordained and installed in the position.

*Interim = This denotes that another bishop has been chosen from elsewhere in the denomination to be the temporary leader of a jurisdiction until a new Bishop-designate is officially ordained and installed as its leader.

North America

Belize
  • Belize Jurisdiction – Bishop Alber Oliver Quick

Canada
  • Canada/Michigan Jurisdiction – Bishop Welton Lee Lawrence
  • Canada Western – Bishop Frank Anthone White (Interim)
  • Ontario United Canada Jurisdiction – Bishop-designate Charles J. Johnson III (Interim)
  • Nova Scotia Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction – Bishop Talbert W. Swan, II, Assistant General Secretary
  • Vancouver Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction – Bishop-designate Benjamin Stephens III (Interim)

Mexico
  • Mexico Jurisdiction - Bishop Maurice Green

Panama
  • Panama Jurisdiction – Bishop Eusebio C. Stewart

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona
  • Arizona Jurisdiction – Bishop Harvey T. Young Sr.

Arkansas

California
  • California New Journey – Bishop John M. Richardson Sr.
  • California North Central – Bishop Donald R. Murray
  • California Northwest – Bishop Nathaniel Bullock
  • California Greater Northern Second – Bishop Johnathan Douglas Logan, Sr.
  • California Nor Cal Metropolitan – Bishop Jerry Wayne Macklin, First Assistant Presiding Bishop
  • California Northern First – Bishop Albert Galbraith
  • California Northeast – Bishop Michael Julian Johnson
  • California Southern First – Bishop Joe L. Ealy
  • California Southern Evangelistic – Bishop Christopher Edwin Milton
  • California Southern Second – Bishop George D. McKinney, General Board Member
  • California Southern Third – Bishop Roger Thomas
  • California Southern Fourth – Bishop Roy Dixon
  • California Southern Metropolitan – Bishop J. Bernard Hackworth
  • California Southwest – Bishop Hillrie Murphy
  • California West Coast – Bishop Robert "Bob" Jackson
  • California Western – Bishop Leo Smith
  • California Valley – Bishop Samuel L. Doyle

Colorado
  • Colorado Jurisdiction – Bishop-designate Wayne H. McDonald (Interim)

Connecticut
  • Connecticut First Jurisdiction – Bishop Charles H. Brewer III
  • Connecticut Second Jurisdiction – Bishop Hester D. Bordeaux
  • Connecticut Third/Southern New England Jurisdiction – Bishop T. Walter Plummer

Delaware
  • Delaware Jurisdiction – Bishop Thomas L. Holsey

District of Columbia
  • Washington, D.C. Jurisdiction – Bishop Neavelle A. Coles

Florida
  • Florida Central First Jurisdiction – Bishop Gary L. Hall Sr
  • Florida Central Second Jurisdiction – Bishop Edward Robinson Sr.
  • Florida Eastern – Bishop Jimmie Lee Williams
  • Florida Northwest – Bishop Willie C. Green
  • Florida Southern – Bishop Julian C. Jackson
  • Florida Southwest – Bishop Sedgwick Daniels (Interim)
  • Florida Western – Bishop Willie J. Matheney
  • Florida Western Second – Bishop Larry Perkins

Georgia
  • Georgia North Central – Bishop Joseph E. Hogan Sr.
  • Georgia Northern First – Bishop Jerry W. Macklin (Interim)
  • Georgia Northern Second – Bishop Mark L. Walden
  • Georgia South Central – Bishop Norman O. Harper
  • Georgia Southeast – Bishop Benjamin P. Collins
  • Georgia Southern First – Bishop Larry L. Shaw
  • Georgia Southern Second – Bishop-designate Ronald "Ron" Engram (Interim)
  • Western Georgia – Bishop John F. Thomas
  • Georgia Metro – Bishop Michael J. Paden Sr.

Hawaii
  • Hawaii State Jurisdiction – Bishop Jesse T. Wilson Sr.

Idaho
  • Idaho Jurisdiction – Bishop Taro D. Golden

Illinois
  • Illinois First – Bishop Ocie Booker
  • Illinois Third – Bishop Terry Sanders
  • Illinois Fifth East – Bishop James C. Austin
  • Illinois Sixth – Bishop Clowdell Williams Sr.
  • Illinois Central – Bishop Juan Morrison
  • Illinois Seventh – Bishop R.D. Edward Goodwin Sr.
  • Illinois Midwest – Bishop Darrell L. Hines – General Board Member, Church of God in Christ
  • Illinois Southeast – Bishop Otis A. Eanes
  • Historic Northern Illinois – Bishop Edwin Walker
  • Illinois Southern – Bishop Embra Patterson
  • Illinois Fifth West – Bishop James E. Washington

Indiana
  • Historic Indiana First – Bishop-designate Carl J. Steen, Jr. (Designee)
  • Indiana Second – Bishop Benjamin A. Sanders
  • Indiana Third – Bishop E. Bobby Warren
  • Indiana North Central Fourth – Bishop Donald Alford Sr.

Iowa
  • Iowa Jurisdiction – Bishop Leroy Johnson

Kansas
  • Kansas Central – Bishop Milton Paul Jackson Jr.
  • Kansas East – Bishop Lemuel F. Thuston – Chairman of the General Assembly COGIC
  • Kansas Southwest – Bishop Mark LaVoy Gilkey

Kentucky
  • Kentucky First, Bishop John W. Fleming
  • Kentucky Second – Bishop James Bell Sr.

Louisiana
  • Louisiana First – Bishop James Proctor
  • Louisiana East First – Bishop Alphonso Denson Sr.
  • Louisiana East Second – Bishop Gerald Hastings Hawkins Sr.
  • Louisiana East Third – Bishop Howard E. Quillen Jr.
  • Louisiana Greater New Orleans – Bishop Charles E. Brown I
  • Louisiana South Central – Bishop Willie Cage

Maine
  • Maine Jurisdiction – Bishop Steve Coleman

Maryland
  • Maryland Central Jurisdiction – Bishop Carl A. Pierce, Sr.
  • Maryland Eastern Shore – Bishop Paul Harmon
  • Greater Maryland First – Bishop Joel H. Lyles Jr., General Secretary

Massachusetts
  • Massachusetts First – Bishop Samuel Byron Hogan Sr.
  • Massachusetts Greater Jurisdiction – Bishop Bryant Robinson Jr.

Michigan
  • Canadian-Michigan Jurisdiction – Bishop Welton Lawrence
  • Michigan Great Lakes First – Bishop Michael Hill
  • Michigan Great Lakes Second – Bishop Dwight Walls, Chairman, Trustee Board
  • Michigan North Central – Bishop J. Drew Sheard, General Board Member
  • Michigan Northeast – Bishop-designate Zachary N. Hicks (Interim)
  • Michigan Northwest Harvest – Bishop Sedgwick Daniels (Interim)
  • Michigan Southeast – Bishop Roger L. Jones Sr.
  • Michigan Southwest Agape – Bishop Clyde Jones Jr
  • Michigan Southwest First – Bishop John H. Sheard, Chairman, Board of Bishops
  • Michigan Southwest Second – Bishop James Whitehead
  • Michigan Southwest Third – Bishop Samuel Duncan Jr.
  • Michigan Southwest Fourth Jurisdiction – Bishop Aaron Milton Sr
  • Michigan Southwest Fifth – Bishop Don W. Shelby Jr.
  • Michigan Western – Bishop-designate Melvin C. Burton (Interim)
  • Michigan Western Second Jurisdiction – Bishop James E. Atterberry Sr.

Minnesota
  • Minnesota Jurisdiction – Bishop Fred Willis Washington

Mississippi
  • Mississippi Northern – Bishop-designate William Dean Jr. (Interim)
  • Mississippi Southern First – Bishop Daniel Littleton
  • Mississippi Southern Second – Bishop Robert G. Rudolph, Jr., Adjutant General (Interim)

Missouri
  • Eastern Missouri First – Bishop William L. Harper
  • Eastern Missouri Second Western Illinois – Bishop Lawrence M. Wooten, General Board Member, Church of God in Christ
  • Missouri Southeastern Third – Bishop Nathaniel Ellis
  • Missouri Western First – Bishop Frank Douglas
  • Missouri Western Second – Bishop John M. Johnson
  • Missouri Midwest – Bishop Elijah H. Hankerson III, President of the Department of Evangelism
  • Missouri Gateway - Bishop Melvin J. Smith

Montana
  • Montana Jurisdiction – Bishop Brandon B. Porter (Interim)

Nebraska
  • Nebraska First Jurisdiction – Bishop J.O. Ford
  • Eastern Nebraska Jurisdiction – Bishop Joseph L. Shannon Sr.

Nevada
  • Nevada First Jurisdiction – Bishop Leon Smith
  • Northern Nevada First Jurisdiction – Bishop Luther Dupree

New Hampshire
  • Greater New Hampshire Jurisdiction – Bishop Robert L Webbs Sr.

New Jersey
  • New Jersey First – Bishop Martin L. Johnson Sr.
  • New Jersey Garden State – Bishop William T. Cahoon
  • New Jersey Third – Bishop Kevin E. Knight Sr.
  • South Jersey – Bishop Tyrone McCombs

New Mexico
  • New Mexico Jurisdiction – Bishop James L'Keith Jones

New York
  • New York Eastern First – Bishop James A. Pullings, Jr.
  • New York Eastern Second – Bishop Rothel Highsmith
  • New York Eastern Third – Bishop Frank A. White
  • New York Eastern Fourth – Bishop Clarence L. Sexton Jr.
  • New York Eastern Fifth – Bishop Harrison Hale
  • New York Southeast – Bishop Tyrone L. Butler
  • New York Central – Bishop R.J. Hoston
  • New York Western First – Bishop James R. Wright Sr.
  • New York Western Second – Bishop Glenwood Young

North Carolina
  • North Carolina Greater – Bishop LeRoy Jackson Woolard
  • North Carolina Second – Bishop Stenneth E. Powell, Sr.
  • North Carolina Third – Bishop Patrick L. Wooden Sr.

North Dakota
  • North Dakota Jurisdiction – Bishop Michael R. Cole.

Ohio
  • Ohio Central East – Bishop David L. Herron Sr.
  • Ohio North First – Bishop Edward T. Cook
  • Ohio North Second – Bishop Daniel I. Carlton, Jr.
  • Ohio Northwest – Bishop Clifford L. Kimbrough Jr
  • Ohio Southern – Bishop Mark L. Perry
  • Ohio West – Bishop Emmit L. Nevels
  • Ohio Northeast – Bishop J. Drew Sheard (Interim)

Oklahoma
  • Oklahoma Northwest – Bishop Lee V. Broom
  • Oklahoma Southeast – Bishop Malcolm W. Coby

Oregon
  • Oregon First – Bishop Archie R. Hopkins
  • Oregon Northwest – Bishop Harry B. Daniels Jr. (deceased Oct 2019)

Pennsylvania
  • Commonwealth of Pennsylvania – Bishop Guy L. Glimp
  • Pennsylvania Central – Bishop Edgar L. Scott
  • Pennsylvania Eastern – Bishop David Morrell Screven
  • Pennsylvania Western First – Bishop James Miles Foster
  • Pennsylvania Western Second – Bishop Melvin E. Clark Sr.
  • Pennsylvania Keystone – Bishop Vernon Prioleau
  • Pennsylvania Koinonia – Bishop Ernest Carl Morris

Rhode Island
  • Rhode Island Jurisdiction – Bishop Harvey Lewis

South Carolina
  • South Carolina Jurisdiction – Bishop Johnnie Johnson

South Dakota
  • South Dakota Jurisdiction – Bishop Troy M. Carr

Tennessee
  • Tennessee Central – Bishop Brandon B. Porter, General Board Member
  • Tennessee Eastern First – Bishop Felton M. Smith Jr.
  • Tennessee Eastern Second – Vacant as of January 18, 2021 (Bishop James M. Scott – Deceased; died on January 18, 2021)
  • Tennessee Fourth – Bishop Jerry Maynard, Vice Chairman of the General Assembly
  • Tennessee Fifth – Bishop Jerry Wayne Taylor
  • Tennessee Headquarters – Bishop David A. Hall Sr.
  • Tennessee Southwest – Bishop William S. Wright Sr.
  • Tennessee Metropolitan – Bishop Linwood Dillard, Jr., Chairman of the AIM Convention

Texas
  • Texas Central Metropolitan – Bishop Frank Fanniel Sr.
  • Texas East – Bishop Robert L. Nichols Sr.
  • Texas Greater Southeast First – Bishop Johnny A. Tates
  • Texas Gulf Coast – Bishop Destry C. Bell
  • Texas Lone Star Jurisdiction – Bishop Don Venson Nobles Sr.
  • Texas Metropolitan – Bishop Reginald L. Williams
  • Texas North Central – Bishop Robert L. Sample
  • Texas Northeast First – Bishop James E. Hornsby
  • Texas Northeast Second – Bishop David R. Houston
  • Texas Northeast Third – Bishop Nelson J. Gatlin
  • Texas Northeast Fourth – Bishop Nathiel D. Wells
  • Texas Northwest – Bishop William H. Watson, III
  • Texas South Central – Bishop Prince E. Bryant Sr.
  • Texas Southeast First – Bishop Kurt L. Thompson
  • Texas Southeast Second – Bishop Ladell Thomas Jr.
  • Texas Southeast Third – Bishop Travis T. Terry
  • Texas Southwest – Bishop Samuel E. Iglehart
  • Texas Western – Bishop Juan O. Lawson

Utah
  • Utah Jurisdiction – Bishop Bobby R. Allen

Vermont
  • Vermont Jurisdiction – Bishop Loran E. Mann

Virginia
  • Virginia First – Bishop Marc A. Thomas, Sr. (Interim)
  • Virginia Second – Bishop Wilbert L. Daniels Sr.
  • Virginia Third – Bishop Levi E. Wills, II.
  • Virginia Fourth – Bishop G. Wesley Hardy Sr.
  • Virginia "Grace" Fifth - Bishop Dwight L. Green Sr.

Washington
  • Washington State Jurisdiction – Vacant as of January 19, 2021 (Bishop Leo Charles Brown Jr. – Deceased; Died on January 19, 2021)
  • Washington Northwest Jurisdiction – Bishop Reggie C. Whitherspoon

West Virginia
  • Greater West Virginia Jurisdiction – Bishop-designate Clyde D. Brown (Interim)

Wisconsin
  • Wisconsin First Jurisdiction – Bishop Sedgwick Daniels, Second Assistant Presiding Bishop
  • Wisconsin Northwest – Bishop Charles H. McClelland

Wyoming
  • Wyoming Jurisdiction – Bishop Jerry W. Macklin (Interim)

Caribbean

Anguilla
  • Rehoboth Caribbean Jurisdiction – Bishop Robert G. Rudolph, Jr., Adjutant General

Bahamas
  • Bahamas Jurisdiction – Bishop Tony L. Hanna

Barbados
  • Barbados Jurisdiction – Bishop Paul L. Fortson
  • Barbados First - Bishop-designate Arthur F. Mosley

Bermuda
  • Bermuda Jurisdiction – Bishop Richard White Sr.

Cuba
  • Cuba Jurisdiction – Bishop Jose Mesa Videaux

Dominican Republic
  • Dominican Republic First Jurisdiction – Bishop Ron Gibson
  • Dominican Republic Second Jurisdiction – Bishop Joseph J. Mayo

Guatemala
  • Guatemala Jurisdiction – Bishop Charles H. Mason Patterson, Sr., General Treasurer

Haiti
  • Haiti Jurisdiction - Bishop Leon Pamphile

Jamaica
  • Jamaica Jurisdiction – Bishop Harold Haughton
  • Greater Jamaica Jurisdiction – Bishop Joseph A. Chase Jr.

Puerto Rico
  • Commonwealth of Puerto Rico – Bishop Elton J. Amos Sr.

    Saint Lucia

    Saint Lucia Eastern Caribbean Jurisdiction - Bishop E. Charles Conner

      Saint Thomas

      Saint Thomas Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction - Bishop Ahmed M. Screven, Esq.

      Saint Maarten / Saint Martin
      • Rehoboth Caribbean Jurisdiction – Bishop Robert G. Rudolph, Jr., Adjutant General

      Trinidad and Tobago
      • Trinidad and Tobago First Jurisdiction – Bishop Alton Gatlin
      • Trinidad & Tobago Second Jurisdiction – Bishop Joseph H.Griffith

      Turks and Caicos
      • Turks and Caicos Jurisdiction - Bishop Earl J Wright Jr.

      Africa

      Angola

      Angola First - Bishop Macano Kamuimba Marcos Pedro

      Democratic Republic of the Congo
      • Congo Jurisdiction – Bishop Fabrice Malundama Mbumba
      • Congo Second Jurisdiction – Bishop-designate Matthew L. Brown

      Ethiopia
      • Ethiopia Jurisdiction – Bishop Corby Bush

      Gambia
      • Gambia/West Africa Jurisdiction - Bishop Lorenzo D. Lee

      Ghana
      • Republic of Ghana Jurisdiction – Bishop Vincent Mathews (Interim)

      Kenya
      • Kenya, East Africa First Jurisdiction – Bishop Jerry L. Ivery Sr.
      • Kenya, Cornerstone First Jurisdiction – Bishop Francis Kamau

      Liberia
      • Liberia Jurisdiction – Bishop Francis Stewart

      Malawi
      • Malawi Central Jurisdiction – Bishop Ronald Sabawo
      • Malwi Second Jurisdiction – Bishop Chifundo Mwanandi

      Nigeria
      • Nigeria First Jurisdiction – Bishop Joseph O. Oipinejaro
      • Nigeria Southern – Bishop Henry Chikwudi
      • Nigeria West – Vacant as of 2020

      Ivory Coast
      • West Ivory Coast Jurisdiction – Bishop Enoch Perry

      Rwanda
      • East African Rwandan Jurisdiction -- Bishop Jeffrey Melvin

      Uganda
      • East African Ugandan Jurisdiction – Bishop Bobby Henderson

      Sierra Leone
      • Sierra Leone, West Africa Jurisdiction – Elder Maurice Daniel Lavender Clark, Director

      South Africa
      • South Africa – Bishop Vincent Mathews (International Missions President)
      • South Africa Second – Bishop Vincent Mathews (Interim)
      • South Africa Third – Bishop Vincent Mathews (Interim)
      • South Africa Fifth – Bishop Ben Zulu
      • South Africa Seventh – Bishop W. Johnny McNair Jr.

      Togo
      • Togo - Bishop Archie Hopkins, Jr.

      Sri Lanka
      • Sri Lanka First - Bishop Blessing Titus Fernando

      Zambia
      • Zambia First – Bishop Ngamitu Muhini
      • Zambia Second - Bishop Justine Gondwe

      Asia

      Japan
      • Japan First Jurisdiction – Bishop Carl Hodges

      Philippines
      • Philippines Jurisdiction – Bishop Avel Forto, Sr
      • Philippines Second Jurisdiction - Bishop Avel Forto, Jr
      • Northern Luzon Philippines Jurisdiction - Bishop Joel F. Balindan, Sr.

      India
      • India First Jurisdiction – Bishop Bevin G. Lawrence
      • India Second Jurisdiction – Bishop Samram Paul
      • India Third Jurisdiction – Bishop Edison Victor
      • India Fourth Jurisdiction – Bishop Joseph Norfleet
      • India Fifth Jurisdiction – Bishop G. Jeyakumar

      Israel
      • Israel Jurisdiction - Bishop Glenn Plummer

      Pakistan
      • Pakistan Jurisdiction – Bishop George Adebanjo

      South Korea
      • South Korea Jurisdiction - Bishop Chadwick F. Carlton


      South America

      Argentina
      • Argentina Jurisdiction – Missions Director Assigned

      Brazil
      • Brazil Jurisdiction – Bishop Terence Rhone

      Chile
      • Chile Jurisdiction - Bishop Gabriel McCurtis

      Colombia
      • Colombia 1st Jurisdiction - Bishop Lester Johnson
      • Colombia 2nd Jurisdiction - Bishop Edermin Cortes

      Guyana
      • Guyana Jurisdiction – Bishop Curtis B. Sexton

      Peru

      Venezuela
      • Venezuela Jurisdiction – Bishop Designate Warren C. Dorris

      Europe

      France
      • France Jurisdiction – Vacant, No official Bishop, TBD

      Germany
      • Germany Jurisdiction – Bishop Paul L. Watson

      Greece
      • Greece Jurisdiction – Vacant, No official Bishop, TBD, composed mainly of local charity missions

      Spain
      • Spain Jurisdiction – Bishop Edwin C. Bass

      United Kingdom
      • United Kingdom Jurisdiction – Bishop Alvin Blake

      Portugal
      • Portugal Jurisdiction – Superintendent Nate' M. Jefferson – assigned as Missions Director

      Oceania

      Australia
      • Australia Jurisdiction – Vacant, no official bishop, TBD[4]

      Indonesia

      Papua New Guinea
      • Papua New Guinea – No official bishop, vacant, TBD, mainly local charity missions

      New Zealand
      • New Zealand – Supt Tyrone Scafe, Missions Director

      See also
      • Church of God in Christ, Inc.

      References
      1. "Our Foundation". Church of God in Christ. Archived from the original on March 12, 2013. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
      2. National Council of Churches (February 2, 2010). "Catholics, Mormons, Assemblies of God growing; Mainline churches report a continuing decline". Retrieved March 8, 2010.
      3. Melton, J. Gordon, Religions of the World Second Edition: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices, 2010. p. 681
      4. "COGIC Global63 (G63)". 2015. Retrieved June 2, 2018.

      "COGIC Women's Department Supervisors". Church of God in Christ, Inc.

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