J. Delano Ellis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

J. Delano Ellis

Pastor, Administrator, Military Chaplain, Bishop, Establishmentarian, Educator and Father-in-God to thousands.

Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1944

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: priest

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Jesse Delano Ellis II, known as J.
Delano Ellis, is a leader in African-American Pentecostalism in the United States and is the founding President/Chairman and Archbishop Metropolitan of the Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops.He is the senior pastor of the Pentecostal Church of Christ in Cleveland, Ohio, a ministry to which he was called on May 14, 1989.
His wife, Dr Sabrina Ellis, currently serves as co-pastor with him. Ellis is also the founder and former presiding prelate of the United Pentecostal Churches of Christ and presiding prelate of Pentecostal Churches of Christ.Ellis is widely known as a progenitor of unity among African-American Pentecostals.
He has worked to introduce order, identity, and an appreciation of Christian history among Pentecostal churches.
As a promoter of ecumenism, Ellis has put the Pentecostal movement, as it is manifested among African Americans, in conversation with the broader Christian community around the world.J.
Delano Ellis began as a clergyman in the Church of God in Christ before being asked to lead a local congregation outside that denomination.