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Francis Burns
1809–1863
United States
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Francis Burns (1809–1863) was an American Methodist minister who served as a missionary in Liberia. He was the first Missionary Bishop, and the first African-American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (elected in 1858).
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