Biography for Bishop Frederick Allen Wright, Sr.

The Right Reverend Frederick Allen Wright Sr., is the 142nd Elected and Consecrated Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.  At the 2024 AME General Conference he was appointed is the Presiding Prelate of the 4th District, replacing retiring Bishop John Franklin White.  The 4th AME District comprises Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Canada and India.

Bishop Wright has served as pastor in the states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. His final pastoral assignment was at Quinn Chapel AME Church in Forest Park, Ohio. While in Pittsburgh, Bishop Wright served as the first African American chairperson of the East Liberty Development, Inc., redeveloping an entire business district. Also, he has served as chaplain for the migrant ministry in northeast Pennsylvania. Bishop Wright is an international preacher and lecturer. He is an adjunct professor at Payne Theological Seminary in Wilberforce, Ohio.

Prior to his election to the episcopacy, Bishop Wright served his denomination as a member of the General Board; Chairperson of the Revision Committee (2008 and 2012) General Conferences; Chairperson of the Ohio–South Ohio Conference Finance Committee; Vice Chairperson of the Trustee Board of the Ohio–South Ohio Conference; and Dean of the Board of Examiners for ministerial students. He is a Trustee Board Member of Turner Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia and an active preacher in Forest Park, Ohio, just outside of Cincinnati.
The son of the Reverends Abner and Cornelia Wright, the first female Presiding Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, Bishop Wright earned a Master of Divinity degree from the Turner Theological Seminary at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio.
Bishop Wright is a life member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He is married to Mrs. Jennifer Dixon Wright, and they are the proud parents of two sons.