AFRO Staff Writer
Bishop Harry L. Seawright, 70, is the 133rd elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the oldest independent Black denominations in the United States.
Seawright was appointed Dec. 12, 2025, to the church’s Second Episcopal District, where he oversees churches and conferences in Baltimore, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Western North Carolina. The denomination, founded in 1816, has members across 20 Episcopal Districts in 39 countries on five continents.
His return to the district marks a homecoming after more than 35 years as pastor over various churches in the area, including Payne Memorial AME Church in Jessup, Md.; Hemingway Temple AME Church in Washington, D.C. and Union Bethel AME Church in Brandywine, Md. and Temple Hills, Md…