John Richard Bryant

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Bishop John R. Bryant is the Presiding Prelate of the Fifth Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

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Bryant is the son of the late Bishop Harrison James and Edith Holland Bryant. He was elected and consecrated the 106th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church at the 1988 General Conference in Forth Worth, Texas.

He earned his B.A. in 1965 at Morgan State University, his Masters in Theology in 1970 at the Boston University School of Theology, and his Doctorate in Ministries at the Colgate Rochester Divinity School in 1975.

Bryant also holds an Honorary Doctorates from Paul Quinn College, Wilberforce University, Payne Theological Seminary and Virginia Seminary. He received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from both Boston University School of Theology and Morgan State University. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of his high school, Baltimore City College.