Jarena Lee (February 11, 1783 – February 3, 1864[1]) was the first woman preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME).[2] Born into a free Black family in New Jersey, Lee asked the founder of the AME church, Richard Allen, to be a preacher. Although Allen initially refused, after hearing her preach in 1819, Allen approved her preaching ministry.[3][4] A leader in the Wesleyan-Holiness movement, Lee preached the doctrine of entire sanctification as an itinerant pastor throughout the pulpits of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination.[3][5] In 1836, Lee became the first African American woman to publish an autobiography.[6]
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^Ingersol, Stan. "African Methodist Women in the Wesleyan-Holiness Movement". Church of the Nazarene. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
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