Religious Figure. She founded the religious organization known as the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Inc. in 1903. She is the first matriarch known to have been elevated to the ecclesiastical rank of bishop in a internationally recognized religious body. The church is a Christian (Pentecostal) church of the Holiness doctrine and polity.
Religious Figure. She founded the religious organization known as the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Inc. in 1903. She is the first matriarch known to have been elevated to the ecclesiastical rank of bishop in a internationally recognized religious body. The church is a Christian (Pentecostal) church of the Holiness doctrine and polity.
Bio by: Meharry Lewis
Inscription
Bishop (Mother)
Mary Lena Tate
Founder and First
Chief Overseer of
the House of God, Etc.
Religious organization
Born Jan. 1871
Died Dec. 1930
This monument donated by
Bishop M.F.L. Keith
and her dominion
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