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Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate
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Mary Magdalena Street Lewis Tate ("Mother Tate") (January 3, 1871 – December 28, 1930) was an African American evangelist. She was the first American woman to serve as a Bishop in a nationally recognized denomination.[4] She founded a Pentecostal denomination, The Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth, in 1903. Its first convocation was held in June 1903 in Greenville, Alabama.[1] The church was the first Pentecostal Holiness church in America founded by a woman,[5] and spread to at least twenty states. At least seven denominations currently trace their history back to her church.[4]