Bishop Charles Harrison Patterson Sr.
Bishop Charles Harrison Mason Patterson was born Sept. 11, 1976, to the union of the late Bishop J. O. Patterson, Jr. and the late Missionary Rose Kelly Patterson.
As the namesake of the founder of the Church of God in Christ, Elder Patterson was born a leader. He accepted his call to the ministry at age 16 and on Aug. 4, 1998, he was ordained an elder in the Church of God in Christ at the age of 21. He has taken up the torch lit by his father, a former Chairman of the General Assembly and his grandfather, the Bishop J.O. Patterson, Sr., COGIC’s first elected Presiding Bishop, and has committed his life to God’s work. He has an uncompromising zeal for the people and things of God.
Through his life and ministry, Bishop Patterson has demonstrated a caliber of leadership well beyond his years. He presently serves as the Treasurer for the National Churches Of God In Christ and Superintendent of National Properties. He served along side his father as pastoral administrative assistant for many years. After God called Bishop J.O. Patterson, Jr. from labor to reward in June 2011, Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake appointed Bishop Patterson as Pastor of Pentecostal Temple Church Of God In Christ on August 6, 2011.
In November 2004, he was the youngest member to be elected to the Church of God in Christ National Board of Trustees. He has also served as District YPWW President for the Pentecostal District, Headquarters Jurisdiction and is the President & CEO of C. H. Mason Patterson Ministries.