{"id":14726,"date":"2014-04-23T11:18:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T11:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the7.io\/main\/?page_id=14726"},"modified":"2026-06-14T04:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T04:56:41","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/education\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Who we are<\/h3><\/div><\/div>[vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1573302102624{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}”][vc_column_text]In April 1970, the General Assembly of the Church of God in Christ authorized the Charles Harrison Mason Theological Seminary to become a Constituent Seminary of the ITC. The Charles H. Mason Theological Seminary is the oldest fully accredited Pentecostal Seminary in America; and the Charles H. Mason Theological Seminary is the only fully accredited African American Pentecostal Seminary in the United States. The first class to graduate from the Charles H. Mason Theological Seminary in 1972 was the following: Dorothy Webster Exum\u00e9, Calvin D. Kinsey, Isaac Richmond, and John P. Ruth and, since its inception, the Charles H. Mason Theological Seminary has graduated forty-six classes.<\/p>\n

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Beginning in 1973, the Church of God in Christ established schools in the C. H. Mason System of Bible Colleges in Memphis at the Tennessee Headquarters, Tennessee 4th and Tennessee 5th Jurisdictions. These three schools later merged in 1998.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1573302106064{padding-bottom: 10px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1657834819081{padding-bottom: 15px !important;}”]In December 2000, the newly elected Presiding Bishop, Gilbert Earl Patterson, appointed Dr. Alonzo Johnson, as the Commissioner of Education. The Commission was responsible for the Church of God in Christ Association of Christian Schools; Ecumenism, History and Scholarship; and the C.H. Mason System of Bible Colleges and Institutes. The C.H. Mason System of Bible Colleges and Institutes, which offered the two-year ordination and licensure certificate program, was then renamed the C. H. Mason Jurisdictional Institutes.<\/p>\n

In 2002, the Commission merged the C.H. Mason Bible College of Memphis and the newly proposed All Saints Bible which was now authorized to award Associate and Bachelor\u2019s degrees.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1573304570012{padding-bottom: 50px !important;}” offset=”vc_col-lg-4 vc_col-md-4″][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space]

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The Education Commission Provides:<\/h3><\/div><\/div>
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  • High School College and Career Preparation<\/li>\n
  • Ministerial Licensure and Ordination Certification<\/li>\n
  • Associate and Bachelor Degrees<\/li>\n
  • Master and Doctoral Degrees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” bg_type=”bg_color” bg_override=”ex-full” margin_bottom=”10″ type=”vc_default” bg_color_value=”rgba(170,170,170,0.1)” css=”.vc_custom_1573301061055{padding-top: 70px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1573299822952{padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]
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    About our Chancellor<\/h2><\/div><\/div>[vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner]