Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson of the COGIC

Bishp Gilbert Earl Patterson, who for years we have called him Bishop GE Patterson. Televison on any Sunday morning I would wait for his broadcast and when he begin to preach I did not want to move until he was done.

Gilbert Earl Patterson was an American Pentecostal-Holiness leader and minister who served as the international Presiding Bishop and Chief Apostle of the Church of God in Christ, Inc. Bishop Patterson passed away, but the messages God sent through him still blesses and set free. Patterson was born to Bishop William Archie 'W. A.' (1898–1991) and Mary Louise Williams Patterson (1901–1981) in the parsonage next door to the Church of God in Christ in Humboldt, Tennessee and was the youngest of six children. Growing up on Orleans street in the Lauderdale Sub neighborhood of Memphis, he was saved at 11 years old at a revival held in Holy Temple COGIC. Holy Temple COGIC was founded by his father. Later he moved with his family to Detroit, where his father pastored a second church New Jerusalem COGIC.