Joseph Simeon Flipper
Joseph Simeon Flipper (February 22, 1859October 9, 1944) was an American bishop and academic. Early life and education Joseph Simeon Flipper was born on February 22, 1859, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Elizabeth (Burkhalter) and Festus Flipper. He was enslaved at birth on the plantation of Ephraim G. Ponder. He attended Atlanta University from 1869 to 1876, after which he taught school in Thomaston, Georgia. He studied theology for five years and was admitted to the ministry of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in January 1880. Flipper received a doctorate of divinity from Allen University in 1893. Career His first pastorate was in Grooverville, Georgia. He was pastor of a church in Boston, Georgia, from 1881 to 1882, and in Darien, Georgia, from 1882 to 1883. He then taught for two years in Decatur County, and was then made minister of the Bethel Church at Atlanta, where he remained four years. From 1893 to 1896 he was the presiding elder for a district centered in A ...
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Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 living within the city limits, it is the eighth most populous city in the Southeast and 38th most populous city in the United States according to the 2020 U.S. census. It is the core of the much larger Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to more than 6.1 million people, making it the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Situated among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains at an elevation of just over above sea level, it features unique topography that includes rolling hills, lush greenery, and the most dense urban tree coverage of any major city in the United States. Atlanta was originally founded as the terminus of a major state-sponsored railroad, but it soon became the convergence point among several rai ...
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