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• Poor Ben: A Story of Real Life (Nashville: Pub. House of the A.M.E. Sunday-School Union, 1890), by Lucretia H. Newman Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopaedia of African Methodism (Baltimore : Methodist Episcopal Book Depository, 1882., 1882), by A. W. Wayman and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and times of Henry M. Turner : the antecedent and preliminary history of the life and times of Bishop H.M. Turner : his boyhood, education and public career, and his relation to his associates, colleagues and contemporaries (Atlanta : A.B. Caldwell Pub. Co., 1917., 1917), by M. M. Ponton and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quarto-centennial of H.M. Turner as bishop in the A.M.E. Church : celebrated in St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Saint Louis, Missouri. (Nashville, Tenn. : A.M.E. Sunday School Union, 1905., 1905), by Charles Simpson Butcher and A.M.E. Sunday School Union (page images at HathiTrust)

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• An appeal for Negro bishops, but no separation (Eaton & Mains, 1912), by J. W. E. Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)

• African Methodist handbook ([Philadelphia?] : [African Methodist Episcopal Church], [1908?], 1908), by African Methodist Episcopal Church, Charles Simpson Butcher, and Benjamin F. Lee (page images at HathiTrust)

• A double anniversary sermon of the thirty year's episcopate of Bishop Samuel David Ferguson, June 24, 1885-1915 : fifty years of his ministry, December 31, 1865-1915, preached in St. Mark's Church, June 27, 1915 ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1915?]], 1915), by Samuel David Ferguson, Carter Godwin Woodson, and Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Negro bishop movement in the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina (McPhersonville, S.C. : H. Woodward, [1916], 1916), by J. Herbert Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (with a new introduction by Singleton; New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, c1960), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones and George A. Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: The A.M.E. Book Concern, 1928), by William H. Heard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Autobiography, Sermons, Addresses, and Essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D. (Atlanta: Franklin Print. and Pub. Co., 1898), by Lucius Henry Holsey (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: F. Ford and M. A. Riply, 1880), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
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• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Lee and Yeocum, c1887), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
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• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Martin and Boden, 1833), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Catholic hierarchy of the United States, 1790-1922 (Catholic University of America, 1922), by John Hugh O'Donnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Patrick Augustine Feehan, bishop of Nashville, first archbishop of Chicago, 1829-1902 (Matre, 1922), by Cornelius J. Kirkfleet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bishop on vacation (Privately printed, 1936), by John V. Norcross and R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of bishops and archbishops (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906), by Henry Codman Potter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Archbishop Hughes : with a full account of his funeral, Bishop McCloskey's oration, and Bishop Loughlin's month's mind sermon : also Archbishop Hughes' sermon on Catholic emancipation and his great speeches on the school question : including his three days' speech in Carroll Hall, speech before the Board of Aldermen, letter to Mayor Harper &c., &c., &c. (American News Company, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bishops of the American church, past and present. Sketches, biographical and bibliographical, of the bishops of the American Church. With a preliminary essay on the historic episcopate and documentary annals of the introduction of the Anglican line of succession into America (The Christian Literature Co., 1897), by William Stevens Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and letters of Phillips Brooks (Dutton, 1900), by Alexander V. G. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of the Rt. Rev. Wm. Quarter, D.D., first Catholic bishop of Chicago (Sadlier, 1850), by John E. McGirr and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unwritten history (A.M.E. Book Concern, 1919), by Levi Jenkins Coppin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Bishop Griswald. (General Protestant Episcopal S. School Union, etc., 1859), by John N. Norton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Rev. William M'Kendree (Carlton & Phillips, 1852), by Benjamin St. James Fry and Daniel P. Kidder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Gilbert Haven : bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (Phillips & Hunt ;, 1883), by George Prentice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and times of the Most Rev. John Carroll, Bishop and first Archbishop of Baltimore embracing the history of the Catholic Church in the United States, 1763-1815 : with portraits, views and fac-similes (John G. Shea, 1888), by John Gilmary Shea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Archbishop Quigley, a tribute (s.n., 1915), by Francis Clement Kelley and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of William Capers, D.D. : one of the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, including an autobiography (Nashville, Tenn. : Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1859., 1859), by William M. Wightman, A. A. Stitt, and Southern Methodist Publishing House (page images at HathiTrust)

• Guide to the diocesan priesthood in the United States. (Catholic University of America Press, 1956), by Thomas P. McCarthy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memento of the death of the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIII (Martineau, 1903), by William Charles Martineau (page images at HathiTrust)

• In memoriam : a few thoughts upon the announcement of the death (on the 21st December, 1866,) of the Rt. Rev. Stephen Elliott, D.D., bishop of the diocese of Georgia (Macon, Ga. : J.W. Burke & Co., stationers, printers and binders, 1867., 1867), by Henry Kollock Rees and J.W. Burke & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• The life of Bishop Claggett of Maryland. (General Protestant Episcopal S. School Union and Church Book Society, 1859), by John N. Norton (page images at HathiTrust)

• One hundredth anniversary of the consecration of the Rt. Rev. Edward Bass, D. D., as the first Bishop of Massachusetts, May 7, 1797-May 7, 1897. (Diocese of Massachusetts, 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of the Cardinal de Cheverus, Archbishop of Bordeaux (Hooker & Cloxton, 1839), by M. Hamon and Robert M. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Missouri priest one hundred years ago : address of Rev. John Rothensteiner at the observance of Missouri's centennial celebration at Columbia, Mo., January 8th, 1918. ("Amerika" print, 1918), by John E. Rothensteiner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archbishop Lamy; an epoch maker (Santa Fe New Mexican Publishing Corporation, 1936), by Louis H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir and letters of Frederic Dan Huntington, first bishop of central New York (Boston ; and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1906., 1906), by Arria S. Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir and letters of Frederic Dan Huntington, first bishop of central New York (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1906), by Arria S. Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Most Reverend John Hughes, first archbishop of New York (Dodd, Mead, 1892), by Henry A. Brann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of Archbishop Hughes, first Archbishop of New York : with a full account of his life, death and burial as well as his services in all pursuits and vocations from his birth until his death. (T.B. Peterson & Bros., 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Funeral oration of his eminence John Cardinal McCloskey, D.D., Archbishop of New York : delivered October 15,1885, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York (Benziger Brothers, 1885), by James Gibbons and N.Y.) St. Patrick's Cathedral (New York (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lives of the bishops of North Carolina from the establishment of the episcopate in that state down to the division of the diocese. (Alfred Williams & company, 1910), by Marshall De Lancey Haywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• North Carolina biography (s.n, 1870), by William Mercer Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memorial to Bishop Atkinson. (s.n., 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Philip Mercer Rhinelander : seventh bishop of Pennsylvania, first warden of the College of Preachers (Morehouse-Gorham, 1950), by Henry Bradford Washburn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reminiscences (Thomas Whittaker, 1895), by Thomas M. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences (T. Whittaker, 1895), by Thomas M. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)

• Alexander Gregg, first bishop of Texas (University Press, 1912), by Wilson Gregg and Arthur Howard Noll (page images at HathiTrust)

• A master builder being the life and letters of Henry Yates Satterlee, first bishop of Washington (Longmans, Green, 1916), by Charles H. Brent and Henry Y. Satterlee (page images at HathiTrust)

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