Vashti Murphy McKenzie Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

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Vashti Murphy McKenzie was born on 28 May, 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland, is a Former. Discover Vashti Murphy McKenzie's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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In 2014, she was listed as one of 50 "Powerful Women Religious Figures Around The World" by the Huffington Post.

In her first post as bishop, she was named to the 18th district, which has oversight for AME churches in Africa, mainly in Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique and Swaziland. She later served as presiding prelate for the Thirteenth District AME, which covers Tennessee and Kentucky. While serving in this role, she was invited by President Barack Obama to join the inaugural President's Advisory Council of the White House Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. In 2012, she moved to the Tenth Episcopal District in Texas, where she still presides.

McKenzie's first pastorate was at the Oak Street AME church in Baltimore. In 2010, she became the first woman to serve as the pastor at Payne Memorial AME Church in Baltimore, Maryland. During the ten years she served in this role, she helped grow the church, and also expand its ministry in the community. In 1996, she offered the closing prayer on the first night of the Democratic National Convention. In 1998, Ebony named McKenzie as one of the "15 Greatest Black Woman Preachers" in the US. She tied for first in the balloting, along with Rev. Prathia Hall and Rev. Carolyn Knight.

In 2005, she became the titular head of the AME Church, again making history, this time as the first woman to lead the denomination. She was the host Bishop to the 2016 AME General Conference.

There were 42 candidates for bishop in the election, two of whom were women. In addition to McKenzie, Rev. Carolyn Tyler Guidry, the first woman to serve as Presiding elder in the AME, also ran for election. (Guidry was later elected as bishop in 2004.) McKenzie received the second highest number of votes when the General Council of the AME Church voted in July at the national convention in Cincinnati. In her acceptance speech, she is quoted as saying, "Because of God’s favor, the stained-glass ceiling has been pierced and broken.” She was consecrated as the 117th bishop in the AME Church, and became the first woman to be elevated to the episcopate.

In 2000, McKenzie made the decision to run for election to the position of bishop in her denomination. As a first time candidate, McKenzie had to explain to church leaders and members why she was qualified to be the first woman bishop. In an interview for a Christian Post article in 2019, she noted that running for bishop meant '"[h]elping people to take a look at your ministerial track record in your pastorate. The kinds of things that you have done,' she explained. 'Being able to get that message out, being able to show people that it’s not just me being female, that I have had experiences, I'm qualified, and take a look at how God has blessed our ministry as an indication of what we can do in the future.'”

However, she felt a calling to the ministry, and began studies at Howard University School of Divinity where she obtained a Masters of Divinity. She was ordained as an itinerant deacon in 1981, and ordained as a full minister in 1984. She later completed a Doctorate in Ministry from United Theological Seminary in Ohio.

McKenzie attended high school at Eastern High School, an all-female public high school in Baltimore City. She was one of only six black students in the school, which had been desegregated in the wake of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954. McKenzie graduated from Eastern High in 1965.

Vashti Murphy McKenzie (born May 28, 1947) is a retired bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and author of six books. In 2000, McKenzie became the first woman to be elected as bishop in the denomination's history. She later served as President of the Council of Bishops, becoming the first woman to serve as Titular head of the AME Church.

Vashti was born on May 28, 1947, in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the daughter of Samuel Edward Smith and Ida Murphy Smith Peters. She was named after her maternal grandmother, Vashti Turley Murphy, who was one of 22 women who founded the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 1913, while a student at Howard University.

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