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William H. Miles
1828–1892
United States
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William Henry Miles (1828–1892) was a founder and the first senior bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in America, a Methodist denomination formed in 1870 to serve African-American Methodists in the American South. Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama is named in his honor.
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