Event class: church, became, pastor, ordained, president, conference, methodist, first, served, bishop

Events with high posterior probability

Francis M. Lyman	In March 1863, Church President Brigham Young asked Francis to settle in Fillmore, Utah.
John S. Fullmer	Joseph Smith and where Smith was killed on June 27, 1844 The Fullmers heard about the Latter Day Saint movement and became members while living in Jefferson Township, Richland County, Ohio.
Merriman Colbert Harris	Merriman Colbert Harris was elected a Missionary Bishop by the 1904 General Conference of the M. E. Church.
Earl Cranston	Earl was admitted as a Minister to the Ohio Annual Conference of the M. E. Church in 1867.
Jennie B. Knight	On April 1, 1898, Jennie was set apart as one of the first two single women in the LDS Church to be formally selected as full-time church missionaries.
Robert T. Burton	Born in Amherstburg in Upper Canada, Burton was called by Presiding Bishop Edward Hunter to be his second counselor in 1874.
T. B. H. Stenhouse	In 1850, Stenhouse married Fanny Warn and shortly thereafter joined Lorenzo Snow and Joseph Toronto on a mission to Italy ; they became the first LDS Church missionaries to preach in that country.
Washakie	It was not until after 1880, after Young's death, that Washakie became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
M A Varughese	From this young age he had a thirst within him to serve the Lord and has been in the ministry of Lord Jesus Christ from 1956.
Jimmy Womack	In 1998 he became an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ.
Isaac K. Funk	Upon his graduation in 1860, he was ordained as a Lutheran pastor, and served pastorate s in New York, Indiana, and his home state of Ohio ; his last pastorate was at Saint Matthews English Lutheran Church in Brooklyn, New York, where he stayed seven years.
Edmond L. Browning	Browning returned to the United States in June 1974 to work at the Episcopal Church Center in New York City as Executive for National and World Mission on the Executive Council of the Church.
Spencer W. Kimball	Kimball's father died in 1924, having served as president of the St. Joseph Stake for 26 years.
Jorge A. Rojas	Rojas was called as an Area Seventy of the church in 2004.
John Philip Newman	Bishop Newman was elected to the episcopacy at the 1888 General Conference of the M. E. Church.
William Rufus Nicholson	Having served four churches in this denomination (in New Orleans, LA ; Cincinnati, OH ; Boston, MA and Newark, NJ), he decided to transfer to the Reformed Episcopal Church in 1875.
Herbert George Welch	In 1905 Welsh transferred his Conference Membership again, this time to the West Ohio Annual Conference, when he was named the President of Ohio Wesleyan University.
John Jaques (Mormon)	He was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the fall of 1845.
Abraham Woods	Woods had been pastor of the First Metropolitan Baptist Church in the early 1960s and led the St. Joseph Baptist Church starting in 1967 as its pastor.
Israel A. Smith	In 1925, Israel was released from the Presiding Bishopric.
Harden Bennion	With his new appointment in 1909 Bennion moved to Salt Lake City and was released from the Uintah Stake presidency and called as a member of the Salt Lake Stake High Council.
Pleasant Tackitt	In 1857 he organized the First United Methodist Church of Weatherford, Texas.
George Dewey	He was among the founders of the National Life Insurance Company in 1848 and a member of the Episcopal Church and was among the founders of the Christ Episcopal Church in Montpelier.
Luke S. Johnson	Later in 1831, he joined Sidney Rigdon in preaching the gospel in areas of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Loren C. Dunn	After Dunn became a member of the seven-man First Council of the Seventy in 1968, he served in several key church positions.
Graylan Hagler	In 1992, Reverend Hagler moved to Washington, D. C., where today he is the Senior Minister of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ and continues to preach and organize.
James Denney	In 1886 he was called to be pastor of the East Free Church, Broughty Ferry, where he succeeded his friend and mentor Professor Bruce.
Dean Jagger	Jagger was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1972.
Steve Gaines (pastor)	After eight years in Texas, Gaines returned to Jackson, Tennessee, in 1988 to serve as pastor of West Jackson Baptist Church.
Arnold Potter	On November 10, 1839, Potter and his family were baptized by missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Milton Wright (bishop)	In 1878, he assumed responsibility for the Western conferences of the church and moved his family to Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Arnold Potter	On March 16, 1856 Potter received a call to serve as a missionary in Australia from LDS Church president Brigham Young.
Jorge A. Rojas	He was released as a member of the quorum and as a general authority of the church in October 1996.
Kevin DeYoung	DeYoung first served as a Pastor at First Reformed Church in Orange City, Iowa and since August 2004, he has served as Senior Pastor at University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan near Michigan State University.
Albert Edward Smith	At a special meeting of the church board held on May 26, 1919, a prominent church member moved that Smith'' be restrained from any further preaching in First Church''.
Lyman C. Pettit	Pettit resigned as pastor as of 1 May 1902, and after a ten-week gap, was replaced by Rev. Ernest E. Angell, a Congregationalist minister.
John Erlander	Erlander was a lay delegate to the meeting at Jefferson Prairie Settlement during June 1860 at which the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized.
Emmanuel A. Kissi	By 1982 Kissi was serving the LDS Church as a district president in Ghana.
Parker Jacobs	In 1994, Jacobs left St. George in order to serve his mission for the LDS Church, spending two years in West Virginia.
Newel Knight	When the second high council of the church was organized in Missouri in 1834, Knight was appointed a member of it.
Nancy Wilson (religious leader)	Wilson was elected Moderator of the denomination of Metropolitan Community Church es (MCC) by the Church's General Conference in Calgary, Alberta in July 2005.
Vincenzo Di Francesca	On 13 February 1949, Di Francesca sent a letter to Widtsoe at LDS Church headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Stephen L Richards	Richards would remain a counselor in the Deseret Sunday School Union Superintendency until 1934 when apostles were released from these positions and men were called who could devote their full-time to the Sunday School, also freeing up the apostles to focus more on their specific calling.
Albert P. Forsythe	He was admitted into the Indiana conference of the Methodist Church as a traveling preacher in 1853 and served eight years.
Isaac Mayer Wise	Wise remained with this congregation until April 1854, when he became rabbi of the Bene Yeshurun congregation of the Lodge Street Synagogue of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he officiated for the remaining 46 years of his life.
Melvin J. Ballard	Ballard was ordained an apostle and became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on January 7, 1919.
James F. Jones (minister)	In 1944 Prophet Jones formed his new corporation, called the Church of Universal Triumph, Dominion of God, in Detroit.
Michael F. Moody	In 1990, Moody was called to serve as president of the Woods Cross Utah East Stake of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City.
Daniel Sidney Warner	On September 15, 1877 the first charges of associating with the holiness movement were brought against him by the Winebrennerian Church of God, which were sustained shortly thereafter by a church trial.
Gordon Clark	Clark was instrumental in arranging a merger between the RPCGS and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church to form the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod in 1965.
David John (Mormon)	In 1862 John was called as a counselor in the bishopric of the Provo 3rd Ward.
D. James Kennedy	Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Kennedy founded the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 1960.
Joseph F. Smith	He succeeded Snow as president of the Salt Lake Temple and served until 1911, when he transferred the responsibility to Anthon H. Lund.
Greg Locke	In 2006 Pastor Locke became the Founding and Lead Pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, TN.
Sylvester Smith (Latter Day Saints)	five of the seven presidents of the Seventy previously ordained as High Priests, including Smith, were released and returned to the High Priests quorum in April 1837.
Ebenezer Joshua	In 1980, Joshua became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Frederick Buckley Newell	Frederick was ordained Deacon in the New York East Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1917.
William B. Preston (Mormon)	Preston was baptized by Henry G. Boyle in February 1857 and shortly afterward was ordained an elder by George Q. Cannon.
Seth Ward (Methodist bishop)	After the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, he united St. John and St. James churches into the First Methodist Church of Galveston.
Bruce P. Blake	Bruce P. Blake is a retired American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1988.
Bruce R. McConkie	While covering the proceedings of LDS general conference on October 6, 1946, McConkie was interviewed by Apostle David O. McKay to fill a vacancy in the First Council of the Seventy created by the death of John H. Taylor.
Willard G. Smith	Smith continued as bishop of Morgan until 1877 when the Morgan Stake was organized and Smith was the first president.
Gilbert Belnap	In early 1868, Belnap moved part of his family to western Weber County to the newly forming community of Hooper, where he was appointed the first'' presiding elder'' and later as bishop.
Orson Hyde	As a result of this ruling, John Taylor replaced Hyde as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1875 and Taylor rather than Hyde succeeded Brigham Young as President of the Church after Young's death.
Neil L. Andersen	In 2005, Andersen became a member of the seven-man Presidency of the Seventy.
H. David Burton	Born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Latter-day Saint parents, Burton graduated from South High School (Salt Lake City) in 1956 and then served as a missionary for the LDS Church in southern Australia in the late 1950s.
Fred Neulander	Neulander was the founding Rabbi of the Congregation M'Kor Shalom Reform Temple in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States, which opened in the summer of 1974.
Amasa Lyman	He was also a counselor in the First Presidency to founder and president of the church Joseph Smith, Jr. Amasa Lyman was born in 1813 in Lyman, New Hampshire, the third son of Roswell Lyman and Martha Mason.
Canute Peterson	When Peterson died in Ephraim, Utah, he was serving as the president of the Sanpete Stake, a position he held since 1877.
Charles Harrison Mason	In 1895, Mason also became acquainted with Charles Price Jones, a popular Baptist preacher from Mississippi who shared his enthusiasm for holiness teachings, as well as J. E. Jeter from Little Rock, AR, and W. S. Pleasant from Hazelhurst, MS. These men spread the doctrine of Holiness and Sanctification throughout the African-American Baptist churches in Mississippi, Arkansas, and western Tennessee.
Reinhold Niebuhr	Reinhold Niebuhr first served as pastor of a church when he served from April to September 1913 as interim minister of St. John's following his father's death.
John Rochester Thomas	Some of his city churches, such as the now-demolished Calvary Baptist Church on West 57th Street and the Reformed Low Dutch Church of Harlem (1887 ; now Ephesus Seventh Day Adventist Church) on Lenox Avenue at 123rd Street in New York, are highly picturesque.
Daniel Kumler Flickinger	He received his Annual Conference License to Preach at the Conference session of October 1850, signed by Bishop J. J. Glossbrenner.
Luther Alexander Gotwald	In 1900, he organized the Calvary Lutheran Church in Springfield, Ohio.
Jason W. Briggs	By 1842, Briggs had been ordained an elder of the church and he organized and became the head of a branch in Beloit, Wisconsin.
William Walter Peele	In 1909 he was appointed pastor of St. John's Methodist Church near his hometown of Gibson.
L. F. P. Curry	Curry was Smith's counselor in the First Presidency until Smith's death in 1946.
John Willard Young	John's earlier ordination was reconfirmed on February 4, 1864 when his brothers Brigham Young, Jr. and Joseph Angell Young were ordained apostles by their father.
William Fawcett (actor)	On September 5, 1916, three days before his twenty-second birthday, Fawcett was licensed to preach by the Hamline Quarterly Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Minnesota.
George Washington Dupee	In September 1867, assisted by Elder S. Underwood and others, he organized the first district Baptist Association in the Washington Baptist Church, and was elected moderator.
Jeffrey Lundgren	While Lundgren was living in a church-owned home, located next to the Kirtland Temple, on Chillicothe Road, in Kirtland, Ohio, he volunteered as a tour guide of the historic Kirtland Temple, for the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (since 2001, the Community of Christ).
Almon W. Babbitt	In 1848, Babbitt emigrated to Utah Territory to join the gathering of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), led by Brigham Young.
Robert B. Thompson	At a conference of the church in May 1839, Thompson, Almon W. Babbitt and Erastus Snow were appointed to be a traveling committee that was charged with'' gather -LSB- ing -RSB- up and obtain -LSB- ing -RSB- all the libelous reports and publications which had been circulated against the Church.''
Nephi Anderson	His parents, Christian and Petronella Nielson, had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints only a few years before his birth and in 1871 they emigrated to Utah, United States.
Elam Luddington	In 1853, Young called four Latter-day Saint s, Luddington, Chauncey W. West, Franklin Denny and Levi Savage, to serve LDS Church missions in India and Indochina.
Spencer W. Kimball	On 8 July 1943, while having lunch at home, Kimball received a telephone call from J. Reuben Clark, then the first counselor to church president Heber J. Grant, notifying him that he had been called to fill one of the vacancies.
Robert L. Backman	In 1985, Backman was released from the Young Men and became a member of the seven-man Presidency of the Seventy, with Vaughn J. Featherstone succeeding him as president of the Young Men.
Frederick Bohn Fisher	He transferred his conference membership to the New England Annual Conference, serving the First M. E. Church in Boston (1907).
Alfred Lee (bishop)	Lee was very well respected in his community because of his demeanor, candor, and resolve ; he unanimously won the vote of both the Clerical and Lay Deputies, and was consecrated as the first Bishop of Delaware and the 38th Bishop of America on October 12, 1841, at the age of thirty-four.
Hiram Rhodes Revels	In 1845 Revels was ordained as a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) ; he served as a preacher and religious teacher throughout the Midwest : in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri, and Kansas.''
Abram Fitkin	On Thursday, May 14, 1903 Fitkin was the preacher at an all day holiness meeting at the Emanuel Pentecostal Church at 190 1/2 Main Street, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, pastored by John Norberry.
Abraham H. Cannon	On October 9, 1882, Cannon was called to be a member of the First Seven Presidents of the Seventy of the church.
Alfred Lloyd Norris	Rev. Norris was ordained a Deacon in the Louisiana Annual Conference of The Methodist Church in 1961.
John McNeil Eddings	Eddings was one of the founders at its consecration in 1860, and served for twelve years in the church leadership, working with two of the church's priests, John D. McCarty and Albert S. Nicholson.
Joseph F. Smith	He was then called to preside over the Davis Stake until he left again in the spring of 1877 for his third mission to England.
Bolaji Idowu	In 1972, he was elected president of the Methodist Church Nigeria.
Andr? Bernier (meteorologist)	With completed courses from Southern Baptist Seminary in Nashville and ICU University, now known as Global University in Springfield, Missouri, he was ordained by an Ordination Council of Pastors on May 21, 2004 at Grace Community Church, Massillon, Ohio.
Haldor Lillenas	When Lillenas resigned from Indianapolis First Church to focus on his publishing house, Bertha became the pastor until they relocated to Kansas City, Missouri in 1930.
Kenneth Johnson (Mormon)	In 2013 Johnson was called to serve as president of the London England Temple.
Lyman E. Johnson	Among these were Johnson and his brother Luke who were among the original twelve men called on February 14, 1835, to be'' Special Witnesses'' or Apostles in a'' Traveling High Council'' of the Church, later known as the Council or Quorum of the Twelve.