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William J. Seymour

1870 - 1922

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William Joseph Seymour (May 2, 1870 – September 28, 1922) was a Holiness Pentecostal preacher who initiated the Azusa Street Revival, an influential event in the rise of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, particularly Holiness Pentecostalism. He was the second of eight children born in an African-American family to emancipated slaves. Seymour was a student of the early Pentecostal minister Charles Parham, and he adopted Parham's belief that speaking in tongues was the sign of receiving the baptism in the Holy Spirit. In 1906, Seymour moved to Los Angeles, California, where he preached the Pentecostal message and sparked the Azusa Street Revival. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William J. Seymour is the 2,171st most popular religious figure (down from 2,018th in 2019), the 4,660th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,092nd in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, William J. Seymour ranks 2,171 out of 3,187. Before him are Cesare Orsenigo, Maria Bernarda Bütler, Theodorus Lector, Kassapa Buddha, Emmanuel Wamala, and Gjon Buzuku. After him are Burchard of Worms, Ealdred, Charles Journet, Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, Zenon Grocholewski, and Saint Othmar.

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Among people born in 1870, William J. Seymour ranks 96. Before him are Princess Maria Theresa of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Francisco S. Carvajal, Osachi Hamaguchi, Nikolay Lossky, John Paine, and Édouard Le Roy. After him are Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Joseph Strauss, Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, Masabumi Hosono, and Yi Jun-yong. Among people deceased in 1922, William J. Seymour ranks 81. Before him are Kabayama Sukenori, Viktor Kingissepp, Henri Brocard, Bahaeddin Şakir, Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, and Géza Gárdonyi. After him are Lord Leopold Mountbatten, Alexander Antonov, Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Petros Protopapadakis, Pavle Jurišić Šturm, and Berthold Delbrück.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William J. Seymour ranks 4,660 out of 20,380. Before him are Eliza McCardle Johnson (1810), Big Mama Thornton (1926), John Paine (1870), George Clement Perkins (1839), The Big Bopper (1930), and John Singleton Copley (1738). After him are Ida Saxton McKinley (1847), Ronnie Spector (1943), Ronald Graham (1935), Alan Dershowitz (1938), Brad Delson (1977), and Bill Miller (1912).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, William J. Seymour ranks 45. Before him are James Michael Harvey (1949), Fulton J. Sheen (1895), Jeralean Talley (1899), Angelo Dundee (1921), Ellen Church (1904), and Charles Fox Parham (1873). After him are Dwight L. Moody (1837), Bill W. (1895), Emma Tillman (1892), David Wilkerson (1931), Robert Barron (1959), and Edwin Frederick O'Brien (1939).

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