Pope Francis has become, in effect, the planet's pastor and reconciler-in-chief, washing the feet of the poor and incarcerated, taking in refugees at the Vatican, meeting with Muslim clerics, venerating China's long civilizational heritage and declaring that climate change and inequality are moral issues.
In 1983, he was appointed administrator at Our Lady of Victory Church in The Bronx to later become the Pastor and retired from Our Lady of Victory in 2008.
Her father is to become the pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church in Coeymans Hollow, N.Y., and of the First United Methodist Church in Dormansville, N.Y., both next month.
In 1846, the Rev. Annet Lafont, who was to become the pastor, started a school for African-American children.
In 1518, Zwingli became the pastor of the Grossmünster in Zurich where he began to preach ideas on reforming the Catholic Church.
In 1966 Shuttlesworth became the pastor of the Greater New Light Baptist church in Birmingham.
In 1987, he was ordained, and in 1990 he became the pastor of his church, which has 400 members.
Jung's father eventually became the pastor in a mental hospital.
She taught music at Virginia State University while he was in seminary and then, 26 years ago, when the Rev. McElroy became the pastor of the Friendship Baptist Church in Flanders, she became his music minister.
He returned to Memphis and in the middle 1990s became the pastor at Oak Hill outside Hernando, about an hour south of Memphis.
