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Prelate of the Pentecostal Churches of Christ, and Senior Pastor of the Pentecostal Church of Christ (Cleveland, Ohio)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:J._Delano_Ellis_in_church.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/J._Delano_Ellis_in_church.png/220px-J._Delano_Ellis_in_church.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/J._Delano_Ellis_in_church.png/330px-J._Delano_Ellis_in_church.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/J._Delano_Ellis_in_church.png/440px-J._Delano_Ellis_in_church.png 2x" data-file-width="1112" data-file-height="938" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Church</th><td class="infobox-data org"><a href="/wiki/Pentecostal_Churches_of_Christ" title="Pentecostal Churches of Christ">Pentecostal Churches of Christ</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">See</th><td class="infobox-data">Pentecostal Church of Christ</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background-color:#DDDDDD;">Orders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ordination</th><td class="infobox-data">1963<br />by <a href="/wiki/O._T._Jones_Sr." title="O. T. Jones Sr.">Ozro Thurston Jones, Sr.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Consecration</th><td class="infobox-data">1970<br />by Brumfield Johnson</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background-color:#DDDDDD;">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Jesse Delano Ellis</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1944-12-11</span>)</span>December 11, 1944<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, Pennsylvania</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="dday deathdate">2020-09-19</span>)</span>September 19, 2020 (aged 75)<br /><a href="/wiki/Cleveland" title="Cleveland">Cleveland</a>, Ohio</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence</th><td class="infobox-data label">Cleveland, Ohio</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">6<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Pastor, author</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Howard_University" title="Howard University">Howard University</a>, BA</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nazarene_Theological_Seminary" title="Nazarene Theological Seminary">Nazarene Theological Seminary</a>, MRE</li> <li>Stafford University, PhD</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Coat of arms</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Arms_of_J_Delano_Ellis_II.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Jesse Delano Ellis, II's coat of arms"><img alt="Jesse Delano Ellis, II's coat of arms" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5d/Arms_of_J_Delano_Ellis_II.png/50px-Arms_of_J_Delano_Ellis_II.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="52" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5d/Arms_of_J_Delano_Ellis_II.png/75px-Arms_of_J_Delano_Ellis_II.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5d/Arms_of_J_Delano_Ellis_II.png/100px-Arms_of_J_Delano_Ellis_II.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="133" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Jesse Delano Ellis, II</b>, commonly known as <b>J. Delano Ellis</b>, (December 11, 1944 – September 19, 2020)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant</a> religious leader and progenitor of unity among <a href="/wiki/African_Americans" title="African Americans">African American</a> <a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostals</a> with <a href="/wiki/Trinitarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Trinitarian">Trinitarian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nontrinitarianism" title="Nontrinitarianism">nontrinitarian</a> affinities. </p><p>Co-founding and initially leading the Joint College of Bishops as their <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_bishop" title="Metropolitan bishop">metropolitan archbishop</a>, Ellis also founded and served as <a href="/wiki/Prelate" title="Prelate">presiding prelate</a> for the <a href="/wiki/United_Pentecostal_Churches_of_Christ" title="United Pentecostal Churches of Christ">United Pentecostal Churches of Christ</a> (today the <a href="/wiki/United_Covenant_Churches_of_Christ" title="United Covenant Churches of Christ">United Covenant Churches of Christ</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Pentecostal_Churches_of_Christ" title="Pentecostal Churches of Christ">Pentecostal Churches of Christ</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:3_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:10_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:11_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served as the senior pastor of the Pentecostal Church of Christ in <a href="/wiki/Cleveland" title="Cleveland">Cleveland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>, beginning on May 14, 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From the inception of the Joint College of Bishops, Ellis, alongside the organization's co-founders—Wilbert Sterling McKinley, Roy Edmond Brown, and <a href="/wiki/Paul_S._Morton" title="Paul S. Morton">Paul Sylvester Morton</a>—have been labeled as "leaders in the shift" among African American Pentecostals for introducing liturgical order and identity among Pentecostal or <a href="/wiki/Full_Gospel" title="Full Gospel">Full Gospel</a> churches and denominations.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a promoter of <a href="/wiki/Ecumenism" title="Ecumenism">ecumenism</a>, Ellis placed Pentecostalism as manifested among African Americans in conversation with the broader Christian community around the world.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Through Ellis, many classical and Oneness Pentecostal denominations claim to derive "western and eastern streams of apostolic succession" as described in the appendix to his book, <i>The Bishopric – A Handbook on Creating Episcopacy in the African-American Pentecostal Church</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:13_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:13-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Ellis, claims of succession stemmed from the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Methodist_Episcopal_Church" title="Methodist Episcopal Church">Methodist Episcopal Church</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_God_in_Christ" title="Church of God in Christ">Church of God in Christ</a>; he also claimed apostolic succession through the <a href="/wiki/Syro-Chaldean_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Syro-Chaldean Church">Syro-Chaldean Church</a>. In his book, he cited no lineage for his "western" stream, and his Syro-Chaldean claims contrast the record produced by Burgess, who he claimed passed on the "eastern" stream.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=J._Delano_Ellis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life">Early life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=J._Delano_Ellis&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>J. Delano Ellis, II was the son of Lucy and Jesse Delano Ellis, Sr. At age 13 or 14, Lucy became pregnant with Ellis.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His mother was a Christian and his father rejected Christianity for the <a href="/wiki/Moorish_Science_Temple_of_America" title="Moorish Science Temple of America">Moorish Science Temple of America</a> and then the <a href="/wiki/Nation_of_Islam" title="Nation of Islam">Nation of Islam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:9_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his childhood, his mother was placed in a <a href="/wiki/Mental_institution" class="mw-redirect" title="Mental institution">mental health institution</a>; he then lived with his grandmother and great aunt. </p><p>During his teen years, Ellis attempted to establish a relationship with his father by attending a Nation of Islam mosque.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father told them Jesus was the "white man's god and Christianity was a trick designed to enslave black people."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ellis began attending the Christian Tabernacle Church of God in Christ under the pastorate of Bishop R.T. Jones, Sr.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One night at the church Ellis professed Christianity and claimed his father <a href="/wiki/Child_abuse" title="Child abuse">physically abused</a> him for rejecting <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> (see also: <a href="/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam" title="Apostasy in Islam">apostasy in Islam</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his early adulthood, Ellis joined the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> and attended the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Nazarene" title="Church of the Nazarene">Church of the Nazarene</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to <a href="/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States" title="Racial segregation in the United States">racial segregation</a> he joined the <a href="/wiki/Christian_Methodist_Episcopal_Church" title="Christian Methodist Episcopal Church">Christian Methodist Episcopal Church</a> and developed an appreciation of <a href="/wiki/High_church" title="High church">high church</a> liturgy and <a href="/wiki/Ecclesiology" title="Ecclesiology">ecclesiology</a>. He soon returned to the Church of God in Christ. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ordination_and_consecration">Ordination and consecration</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=J._Delano_Ellis&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Ordination and consecration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1963, Ellis was ordained by Bishop <a href="/wiki/O._T._Jones_Sr." title="O. T. Jones Sr.">Ozro Thurston Jones, Sr</a>. of the Church of God in Christ; he was elevated to the episcopacy in 1970 by Bishop Brumfield Johnson of the <a href="/wiki/United_Holy_Church_of_America" title="United Holy Church of America">United Holy Church of America</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:7_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:5_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the Church of God in Christ, Ellis organized the Adjutant's Corp.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served as the third Chief Adjutant of the National Adjutancy of the Church of God in Christ.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Establishing the Adjutant's Corp for the Church of God in Christ, Ellis used his education and exposure to <a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglicanism</a> which culminated in the denomination and other Pentecostal bodies adopting Anglican vestments.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1989, Ellis was asked to lead a <a href="/wiki/Oneness_Pentecostalism" title="Oneness Pentecostalism">Oneness Pentecostal</a> congregation outside of the Church of God in Christ. He determined Oneness Pentecostalism and Trinitarianism weren't entirely different conceptions, yet rejected distinctions between the persons of the Trinity. He came to believe there was no scriptural support for the doctrine of Trinitarian Christianity.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ellis soon after founded the <a href="/wiki/United_Pentecostal_Churches_of_Christ" title="United Pentecostal Churches of Christ">United Pentecostal Churches of Christ</a> (today the <a href="/wiki/United_Covenant_Churches_of_Christ" title="United Covenant Churches of Christ">United Covenant Churches of Christ</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-:10_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:5_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Joint_College_of_Bishops">Joint College of Bishops</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=J._Delano_Ellis&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Joint College of Bishops"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Joint College of Bishops</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div>Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Joint_College_of_Bishops_seal.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/af/Joint_College_of_Bishops_seal.png/220px-Joint_College_of_Bishops_seal.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Joint_College_of_Bishops_seal.png 1.5x" data-file-width="279" data-file-height="357" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Seal of JCOB</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Abbreviation</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">JCOB</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data note">1993</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">Religious organization</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Legal status</th><td class="infobox-data">Civil nonprofit</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Purpose</th><td class="infobox-data">Education</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Windcrest,_Texas" title="Windcrest, Texas">Windcrest, Texas</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Official language </div></th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Chairman</div></th><td class="infobox-data">David M. Copeland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Main organ</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Board</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostalism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.collegeofbishops.org">collegeofbishops.org</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>During his tenure as presiding prelate of the United Pentecostal Churches of Christ, he co-founded the Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops (JCAAPB), more commonly the Joint College of Bishops (JCOB), was an ecumenical <a href="/wiki/Synod" title="Synod">synod</a> established by Ellis, Wilbert S. McKinley, Roy E. Brown, and <a href="/wiki/Paul_S._Morton" title="Paul S. Morton">Paul S. Morton</a> in November 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Joint College of Bishops originally functioned as a High Church Pentecostal body, later expanding into other <a href="/wiki/List_of_the_largest_Protestant_denominations" title="List of the largest Protestant denominations">Protestant traditions</a> through <a href="/wiki/Doye_Agama" title="Doye Agama">Doye Agama</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Pastoral_Congress" title="Apostolic Pastoral Congress">Apostolic Pastoral Congress</a>. Through Ellis, the Joint College of Bishops reappropriated the history and purpose of vestments and the episcopacy for Pentecostals in contrast with their initial users in <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism">Roman Catholicism</a> and Anglicanism.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One instance was teaching the <a href="/wiki/Chimere" title="Chimere">chimere</a> is a prophetic garment;<sup id="cite_ref-:14_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:14-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in contrast, the chimere was originally part of <a href="/wiki/Academic_dress" title="Academic dress">academic dress</a> before adoption by Anglican bishops.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The college also upheld that the <a href="/wiki/Fascia_(sash)" title="Fascia (sash)">fascia</a> was the "towel used to wash His [Jesus] disciples feet,"<sup id="cite_ref-:14_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:14-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though it was worn by all Catholic clergy since 1624. According to Roman Catholicism, it symbolizes <a href="/wiki/Chastity" title="Chastity">chastity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Leaders within the Joint College of Bishops also promoted five-fold ministry and the <a href="/wiki/Ordination_of_women" title="Ordination of women">ordination of women</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During theological disputes on <a href="/wiki/Christian_universalism" title="Christian universalism">Christian universalism</a> within the Joint College, Ellis and the college denounced <a href="/wiki/Carlton_Pearson" title="Carlton Pearson">Carlton Pearson</a> as a heretic for advocating universalism.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under his administration, the Joint College of Bishops also admitted and certified <a href="/wiki/Gay_bishops" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay bishops">gay bishop</a> O.C. Allen of the Vision Church of Atlanta in 2012, spurring further controversy within African American Pentecostalism.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, Ellis served as a co-consecrator for <a href="/wiki/Marvin_Sapp" title="Marvin Sapp">Marvin Sapp</a>'s episcopal consecration within the <a href="/wiki/Global_United_Fellowship" title="Global United Fellowship">Global United Fellowship</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Controversy,_later_life"><span id="Controversy.2C_later_life"></span>Controversy, later life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=J._Delano_Ellis&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Controversy, later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1995, Ellis was fired after briefly serving as a city police chaplain for his comments toward <a href="/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims">Muslims</a>, stating Islam was "bloody and dangerous" at worst. In 2001, Ellis resigned from a local faith committee over <a href="/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">antisemitic</a> controversy.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As late as the 21st century, Ellis also served as a member of Eureka Lodge No. 52 of the <a href="/wiki/Prince_Hall_Freemasonry" title="Prince Hall Freemasonry">Prince Hall Freemasons</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a <a href="/wiki/Grand-prior" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand-prior">grand prior</a> and <a href="/wiki/33rd_Degree" class="mw-redirect" title="33rd Degree">33rd degree</a> mason.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After 30 years of leadership at the Pentecostal Church of Christ in Cleveland, Ellis abdicated his pastorate in 2019, and his wife, Dr. Sabrina Ellis, was appointed the new senior pastor.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 19, 2020, Ellis died, according to an announcement from his wife.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before he died, a street was named in his honor.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/The_Potter%27s_House_Church,_Dallas" class="mw-redirect" title="The Potter's House Church, Dallas">The Potter's House Church</a> founder <a href="/wiki/T._D._Jakes" title="T. D. Jakes">Thomas Dexter Jakes</a> preached at his funeral.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following his death, Bishop Woodson of the PCC's Mid-South Episcopal Diocese was elected as new presiding prelate for the Pentecostal Churches of Christ.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Succession_claims">Succession claims</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=J._Delano_Ellis&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Succession claims"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In an appendix to his book <i>The Bishopric – A Handbook on Creating Episcopacy in the African-American Pentecostal Church</i>, Ellis claimed both "western and eastern streams of <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_succession" title="Apostolic succession">apostolic succession</a>" for himself and for the <a href="/wiki/United_Pentecostal_Churches_of_Christ" title="United Pentecostal Churches of Christ">United Pentecostal Churches of Christ</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:13_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:13-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the third chapter of his book, Ellis wrote: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>No person should have the right to exercise or conduct themselves in any of the Episcopal Matters of our Churches without Apostolic Succession, and Episcopal Dispensation to do so. We believe that bishops are the direct descendants of the Lord Jesus Christ, through His Apostles. Because of that contention, we hold dear our Apostolic Succession which we claim through Augustine of Rome, who was sent by the 'Holy See' to England to establish the English Church. Aside from Succession through the Western Stream, this College also holds this same Succession through the Syrian Orthodox stream. [Please refer to the Historical Documents on Apostolic Succession in the APPENDIX of this Book.] The forgoing statement is not to suggest that we do not recognize any other God-appointed leaders and episcopates of other Christian Reformations and Communions. We only intend to contend for our own heritage within the ancient pilgrim Church family.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>J. Delano Ellis, The Bishopric – A Handbook on Creating Episcopacy in the African-American Pentecostal Church, Chapter III: Apostolic Succession</cite></div></blockquote> <p>He claimed "western streams of succession" via the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Wesley" title="John Wesley">John Wesley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Coke_(bishop)" title="Thomas Coke (bishop)">Thomas Coke</a>, <a href="/wiki/Francis_Asbury" title="Francis Asbury">Francis Asbury</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Methodist_Episcopal_Church" title="Methodist Episcopal Church">Methodist Episcopal Church</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_God_in_Christ" title="Church of God in Christ">Church of God in Christ</a>. The claimed succession from the Methodist Episcopal Church is stated as being via three Church of God in Christ bishops (David Charles Williams, Carl Edward Williams and Reuben Timothy Jones), all of whom held <a href="/wiki/Holy_Orders" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy Orders">holy orders</a> from the Methodist Episcopal Church. In his book, he made no claim or comment at all as to whether the line of succession via Wesley, Coke, Asbury and the Methodist Episcopal Church carries unbroken apostolic succession as distinct from presbyteral succession only. He also didn't indicate that Williams, Williams and Jones possessed episcopal consecration from the Methodist Episcopal Church, nor does he cite any episcopal apostolic lineage for their status as bishops of the Church of God in Christ. Additionally, Wesley was an Anglican priest, but he was not an Anglican bishop.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some believe that Wesley was secretly consecrated bishop by Greek Orthodox bishop <a href="/wiki/Erasmus_of_Arcadia" title="Erasmus of Arcadia">Erasmus of Arcadia</a> in 1763.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Others believe Wesley's stance that apostolic succession could be transmitted through presbyters, and that he was a scriptural <i>episkopos</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ellis also noted that in 1964 he had been ordained presbyter by Bishop Ozro Thurston Jones of the Church of God in Christ, and he notes his episcopal consecration in 1970 by Bishop Brumfield Johnson of the Mount Calvary Holy Church of America.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:7_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His book cites no episcopal apostolic lineage for this 1970 consecration. </p><p>"Eastern streams of succession" are traced from the <a href="/wiki/Chaldean_Catholic_Church" title="Chaldean Catholic Church">Syro-Chaldean Church</a> in the East, via Archbishop Bertram S. Schlossberg (Mar Uzziah), Archbishop-Metropolitan of the Syro-Chaldean Church of North America, now known as the Evangelical Apostolic Church of North America.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1995, Ellis stated, the Evangelical Apostolic Church of North America entered into collegial fellowship with the United Pentecostal Churches of Christ.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At a holy convocation of the United Pentecostal Churches of Christ, Bishop Robert Woodward Burgess, II (allegedly representing Archbishop Schlossberg, who was living in Jerusalem) had allegedly assisted at the consecration of a number of additional bishops.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Ellis, Archbishop Schlossberg and Bishop Burgess claimed to possess lineages from bishops Prazsky (Slavonic Orthodox lineage) and Gaines (<a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Orthodox_Church_(Moscow_Patriarchate)" title="Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)">Ukrainian Orthodox</a> lineage). They also claimed this succession converges in Schlossberg and Burgess, as well as numerous lineages deriving via <a href="/wiki/Hugh_George_de_Willmott_Newman" title="Hugh George de Willmott Newman">Hugh George de Willmott Newman</a> (Mar Georgius). In his book, Ellis mentions the Slavonic and Russian/Ukrainian lineages via Prazsky and Gaines, but the only one of Newman's many lineages that he cites is the Syro-Chaldean. His "eastern streams of succession" contrasts with the tactile succession list published by Burgess and their diocese.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his book, Ellis claimed that his clergy do not contend for succession as though it was the sole method to legitimize themselves, however. According to Ellis, members of his denomination and the Joint College of Bishops, "use this means to herald the privilege of the unbroken chain of Historical Succession." </p><p>Claiming both "western and eastern streams of apostolic succession" for himself and the United Pentecostal Churches of Christ, however, and being <a href="/wiki/Oneness_Pentecostalism" title="Oneness Pentecostalism">Oneness Pentecostal</a>, according to <a href="/wiki/Michael_Ramsey" title="Michael Ramsey">Michael Ramsey</a>—once the <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a> (1961–1974)—the validity of someone's apostolic succession pertains to continuity of teaching, preaching, governing, ordination and grace.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Catholic_theology" title="Catholic theology">Catholic theology</a>, apostolic succession effects the power and authority to administer the sacraments except for baptism and matrimony; thus, apostolic succession is necessary for the valid celebration of the sacraments.<sup id="cite_ref-ITC1973_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ITC1973-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Against the claims of Ellis and their college of bishops of an unbroken chain of succession, Anglican and Catholic theologians historically nullify "western and eastern streams of apostolic succession" as his predecessors were Trinitarian, and he converted to Oneness Pentecostalism.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_14-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=J._Delano_Ellis&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/funeral-arrangements-for-bishop-j-delano-ellis-ii-announced/95-8ff43fe1-1f36-41f8-94dc-b788a23962c2/">"Funeral arrangements for Bishop J. 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"Chapter III: Apostolic Succession". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=6JMuxEE63BUC&q=stream"><i>The Bishopric: A Handbook on Creating Episcopacy in the African-American Pentecostal Church</i></a>. Google Books: Trafford Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-55395-848-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-55395-848-2"><bdi>978-1-55395-848-2</bdi></a>. <q>We believe that bishops are the direct descendants of the Lord Jesus Christ, through His Apostles. Because of that contention, we hold dear our Apostolic Succession which we claim through Augustine of Rome, who was sent by the 'Holy See' to England to establish the English Church. Aside from Succession through the Western Stream, this College also holds this same Succession through the Syrian Orthodox stream. 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Google Books: WestBow Press. pp. 29, 37. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4907-2420-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4907-2420-1"><bdi>978-1-4907-2420-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=From+Ghetto+to+Glory&rft.place=Google+Books&rft.pages=29%2C+37&rft.pub=WestBow+Press&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-1-4907-2420-1&rft.aulast=Ellis%2C+II&rft.aufirst=Jesse&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D4IWZAgAAQBAJ%26q%3Dwhite%2Bman%2527s%2Bgod&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJ.+Delano+Ellis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEllis,_II2014" class="citation book cs1">Ellis, II, Jesse (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4IWZAgAAQBAJ&q=J+Delano+Ellis+Christian+Tabernacle&pg=PA27"><i>From Ghetto to Glory</i></a>. Google Books: WestBow Press. p. 30. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4907-2420-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4907-2420-1"><bdi>978-1-4907-2420-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=From+Ghetto+to+Glory&rft.place=Google+Books&rft.pages=30&rft.pub=WestBow+Press&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-1-4907-2420-1&rft.aulast=Ellis%2C+II&rft.aufirst=Jesse&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D4IWZAgAAQBAJ%26q%3DJ%2BDelano%2BEllis%2BChristian%2BTabernacle%26pg%3DPA27&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJ.+Delano+Ellis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEllis,_II2014" class="citation book cs1">Ellis, II, Jesse (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4IWZAgAAQBAJ&q=J+Delano+Ellis+father+Islam&pg=PA27"><i>From Ghetto to Glory</i></a>. Google Books: WestBow Press. p. 27. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4907-2420-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4907-2420-1"><bdi>978-1-4907-2420-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=From+Ghetto+to+Glory&rft.place=Google+Books&rft.pages=27&rft.pub=WestBow+Press&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-1-4907-2420-1&rft.aulast=Ellis%2C+II&rft.aufirst=Jesse&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D4IWZAgAAQBAJ%26q%3DJ%2BDelano%2BEllis%2Bfather%2BIslam%26pg%3DPA27&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJ.+Delano+Ellis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:6-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:6_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:6_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200919192857/https://www.jdellisministries.com/about">"About Bishop J. Delano Ellis, II"</a>. <i>J.D. Ellis Ministries</i>. Archived from the original on September 19, 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 21,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=WEWS&rft.atitle=Beloved+Cleveland+Bishop+J.+Delano+Ellis+dies+at+age+of+75&rft.date=2020-09-20&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.news5cleveland.com%2Fnews%2Flocal-news%2Fcleveland-metro%2Fbeloved-cleveland-bishop-j-delano-ellis-dies-at-age-of-75&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJ.+Delano+Ellis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cogic.org/adjutancy/the-national-adjutancy/">"The National Adjutancy"</a>. <i>Adjutancy of the Church of God in Christ</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200922202451/http://www.cogic.org/adjutancy/the-national-adjutancy/">Archived</a> from the original on September 22, 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 22,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Adjutancy+of+the+Church+of+God+in+Christ&rft.atitle=The+National+Adjutancy&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cogic.org%2Fadjutancy%2Fthe-national-adjutancy%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJ.+Delano+Ellis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cogic.org/adjutancy/2020/09/21/notice-of-transition-bishop-j-delano-ellis-the-third-chief-adjutant/">"Notice of Transition – Bishop J. Delano Ellis – The Third Chief Adjutant"</a>. <i>Adjutancy of the Church of God in Christ</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200922202528/http://www.cogic.org/adjutancy/2020/09/21/notice-of-transition-bishop-j-delano-ellis-the-third-chief-adjutant/">Archived</a> from the original on September 22, 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 22,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Adjutancy+of+the+Church+of+God+in+Christ&rft.atitle=Notice+of+Transition+%E2%80%93+Bishop+J.+Delano+Ellis+%E2%80%93+The+Third+Chief+Adjutant&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cogic.org%2Fadjutancy%2F2020%2F09%2F21%2Fnotice-of-transition-bishop-j-delano-ellis-the-third-chief-adjutant%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJ.+Delano+Ellis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jdellisministries.com/theacademy">"Bishop J. Delano Ellis II | The History of The Adjutancy"</a>. <i>J.D. Ellis Ministries</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240601145320/https://www.jdellisministries.com/theacademy">Archived</a> from the original on June 1, 2024<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 1,</span> 2024</span>. <q>The Adjutancy, as it is known today, in Pentecostal churches was formed in 1970 by the Late Bishop J. Delano Ellis II. Bishop Ellis's desire to blend order and ardor within the black Pentecostal church created a "corps of servants" to the Leadership in the Church of God in Christ. Therefore, it is impossible to discuss adjutancy in the black Pentecostal church without mentioning its founding father. Having received much of his education and exposure in the Episcopal/Anglican communities, Bishop Ellis inspired the Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ to adopt a similar tonsorial (dress or vestment style) and many African-American Pentecostal Communions followed their example. As our churches found greater expose in the broader community of organized believers, so did the need for those who would assist leaders in serving the Lord's church; hence the adjutancy was born.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=J.D.+Ellis+Ministries&rft.atitle=Bishop+J.+Delano+Ellis+II+%7C+The+History+of+The+Adjutancy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jdellisministries.com%2Ftheacademy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJ.+Delano+Ellis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:1-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-:1_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200919181749/https://www.collegeofbishops.org/who-we-are">"About The Joint College Of Bishops"</a>. <i>Joint College of Bishops</i>. 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Delano Ellis President/Chairman and Archbishop Metropolitan of the Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishop's Is Retiring Effective October 31, 2019"</a>. <i>Joy105.com</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://joy105.com/after-30-years-bishop-j-delano-ellis-president-chairman-and-archbishop-metropolitan-of-the-joint-college-of-african-american-pentecostal-bishops-is-retiring-effective-october-31-2019/">the original</a> on September 19, 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Bowens, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fifocm.net/uploads/2/7/7/9/27796551/the_priestly_garments.pdf">"The Meaning of the Priestly Garments"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15388a.htm">"Vestments"</a>. <i>New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201010002006/https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15388a.htm">Archived</a> from the original on October 10, 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Google Books: Trafford Publishing. pp. xxiv. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-55395-848-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-55395-848-2"><bdi>978-1-55395-848-2</bdi></a>. <q>Archbishop Schlossberg, who resides in Jerusalem, Israel, sent Bishop Robert Woodward Burgess, II, a descendant of the "Eastern (Church) Stream," who, having received consecration from the hands of Archbishop Schlossberg, to the Holy Convocation of the United Pentecostal Churches of Christ. His Grace was mandated to assist us in the consecration of our Second College of Bishops and to impart each of our sons that coveted Apostolic Succession from the Eastern Stream, while we imparted the same Succession from the Western Stream.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Bishopric%3A+A+Handbook+on+Creating+Episcopacy+in+the+African-American+Pentecostal+Church&rft.place=Google+Books&rft.pages=xxiv&rft.pub=Trafford+Publishing&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-1-55395-848-2&rft.aulast=Ellis%2C+II&rft.aufirst=Jesse&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D6JMuxEE63BUC%26q%3DBurgess&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJ.+Delano+Ellis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ramsey, Arthur Michael. <i>The Gospel and the Catholic Church</i> (translated from the Spanish edition published in the Dominican Republic: 1964, pp.134ff)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ITC1973-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ITC1973_56-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151004010314/https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_cti_1973_successione-apostolica_en.html"><i>Catholic Teaching on Apostolic Succession</i></a>, International Theological Commission, 1973, archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_cti_1973_successione-apostolica_en.html">the original</a> on October 4, 2015</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Catholic+Teaching+on+Apostolic+Succession&rft.pub=International+Theological+Commission&rft.date=1973&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vatican.va%2Froman_curia%2Fcongregations%2Fcfaith%2Fcti_documents%2Frc_cti_1973_successione-apostolica_en.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJ.+Delano+Ellis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=J._Delano_Ellis&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051114180827/http://www.gospelcity.com/dynamic/news-articles/gospel_news/93">Bishop J. 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Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kinard" title="John Kinard">John Kinard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jermain_Wesley_Loguen" title="Jermain Wesley Loguen">Jermain Wesley Loguen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_E._Price" title="John E. Price">John E. Price</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Singleton" title="William Henry Singleton">William Henry Singleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bryan_Small" title="John Bryan Small">John Bryan Small</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_J._Small" title="Mary J. Small">Mary J. Small</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffery_Tribble" title="Jeffery Tribble">Jeffery Tribble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Varick" title="James Varick">James Varick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Walters" title="Alexander Walters">Alexander Walters</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><b><a href="/wiki/A.U.M.P._Church" class="mw-redirect" title="A.U.M.P. Church">A.U.M.P. 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Morton">Paul S. Morton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><b><a href="/wiki/Lott_Carey_Foreign_Mission_Convention" title="Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention">Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention</a></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clinton_Caldwell_Boone" title="Clinton Caldwell Boone">Clinton Caldwell Boone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lott_Cary" title="Lott Cary">Lott Cary</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><b><a href="/wiki/National_Baptist_Convention,_USA,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.">National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.</a></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stewart_Cleveland_Cureton" title="Stewart Cleveland Cureton">Stewart Cleveland Cureton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_H._Jackson" title="Joseph H. Jackson">Joseph H. Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._J._Jemison" title="T. J. Jemison">T. J. Jemison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willie_James_Jennings" title="Willie James Jennings">Willie James Jennings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Lyons" title="Henry Lyons">Henry Lyons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Mays" title="Benjamin Mays">Benjamin Mays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_J._Simmons_(teacher)" title="William J. Simmons (teacher)">W. J. Simmons</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><b><a href="/wiki/National_Baptist_Convention_of_America,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.">National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.</a></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R._H._Boyd" title="R. H. Boyd">R. H. Boyd</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><b><a href="/wiki/National_Missionary_Baptist_Convention_of_America" title="National Missionary Baptist Convention of America">National Missionary Baptist Convention of America</a></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._M._Lockridge" title="S. M. Lockridge">S. M. Lockridge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><b><a href="/wiki/Progressive_National_Baptist_Convention" title="Progressive National Baptist Convention">Progressive National Baptist Convention</a></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Abernathy" title="Ralph Abernathy">Ralph Abernathy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Augustus_Jones_Jr." title="William Augustus Jones Jr.">William Augustus Jones Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gardner_C._Taylor" title="Gardner C. Taylor">Gardner C. Taylor</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><b><a href="/wiki/United_American_Free_Will_Baptist_Church" title="United American Free Will Baptist Church">United American Free Will Baptist Church</a></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Randall" title="Benjamin Randall">Benjamin Randall</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pentecostal</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Assemblies_of_Christ" title="Apostolic Assemblies of Christ">Apostolic Assemblies of Christ</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Faith_Church" title="Apostolic Faith Church">Apostolic Faith Church</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/William_J._Seymour" title="William J. Seymour">William J. Seymour</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Church_of_God_in_Christ" title="Church of God in Christ">Church of God in Christ</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/Charles_Edward_Blake_Sr." title="Charles Edward Blake Sr.">Charles Edward Blake Sr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andra%C3%A9_Crouch" title="Andraé Crouch">Andraé Crouch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandra_Crouch" title="Sandra Crouch">Sandra Crouch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Michael_Franklin_Jr." title="Robert Michael Franklin Jr.">Robert Michael Franklin Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Green_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Samuel Green Jr.">Samuel Green Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Hawkins" title="Edwin Hawkins">Edwin Hawkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/O._T._Jones_Sr." title="O. T. Jones Sr.">O. T. Jones Sr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_P._Kee" title="John P. Kee">John P. Kee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Harrison_Mason" title="Charles Harrison Mason">Charles Harrison Mason</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandler_David_Owens_Sr" class="mw-redirect" title="Chandler David Owens Sr">Chandler David Owens Sr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_E._Patterson" title="Gilbert E. Patterson">Gilbert E. Patterson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._O._Patterson_Jr." title="J. O. Patterson Jr.">J. O. Patterson Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayne_Perryman" title="Wayne Perryman">Wayne Perryman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ted_Thomas_Sr." title="Ted Thomas Sr.">Ted Thomas Sr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F._D._Washington" title="F. D. Washington">F. D. Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dickerson_Wells" title="Dickerson Wells">Dickerson Wells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timothy_Wright" title="Timothy Wright">Timothy Wright</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lennox_Yearwood" title="Lennox Yearwood">Lennox Yearwood</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lord_Jesus_Christ_of_the_Apostolic_Faith" title="Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith">Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/Robert_C._Lawson" title="Robert C. Lawson">Robert C. Lawson</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Universal_Triumph,_Dominion_of_God" title="Church of Universal Triumph, Dominion of God">Church of Universal Triumph, Dominion of God</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/James_F._Jones_(minister)" title="James F. Jones (minister)">James F. Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Schaffer" class="mw-redirect" title="James Schaffer">James Shaffer</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Fire_Baptized_Holiness_Church_of_God_of_the_Americas" title="Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas">Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Mount_Sinai_Holy_Church_of_America" title="Mount Sinai Holy Church of America">Mount Sinai Holy Church of America</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/Ida_B._Robinson" title="Ida B. Robinson">Ida B. Robinson</a>)</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Pentecostal_Assemblies_of_the_World" title="Pentecostal Assemblies of the World">Pentecostal Assemblies of the World</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Pentecostal_Churches_of_Christ" title="Pentecostal Churches of Christ">Pentecostal Churches of Christ</a></b> (<a class="mw-selflink selflink">J. 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