Church of God in Christ (COGIC)

Church of God in Christ (COGIC) The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is the largest African American Holiness Pentecostal church in North America, with more than 5.5 million members as reported in the 1993 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. The church was founded in 1896 by Charles Harrison Mason (1866–1961) and Charles Price Jones (1865–1949). Both were Baptist ministers who met in 1895 in Jackson, Mississippi. They were rejected by their Baptist church in 1896 for insisting on the…