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This day in black history
March 05, 2012This day, March 5, 1920, Leontine Turpeau Kelly was born in Washington, DC. She went on to become the FIRST black woman bishop in the United Methodist Church.
Leontine completed the Course of Study for Ordained Ministers in the Virginia Annual Conference of the U.M. Church by attending summer school at Wesley Theological Seminary (1970, 1971). She earned her M.Div. degree from Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia (1976).
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