A RELEASE TO
THE CHRISTIAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
AND ECUMENICAL AFFILIATES
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR SENIOR BISHOP THOMAS L. HOYT, JR.
The Homegoing Celebration for Senior Bishop Thomas L. Hoyt, Jr., will be
Wednesday, November 6, 2013, at 11:00 A.M. at the Cramton Auditorium, Howard
University Campus, 2455 Sixth Street, N.W., Washington D.C. Viewing will be at the
Auditorium from 9:00 A.M. until time of service.
The family has also planned an abbreviated Memorial Service on Monday,
November 11, 2013, at the West Side Community C.M.E. Church, 2114 Martin Luther King
Drive, Atlanta, Georgia, at 11:00 A.M. Interment will follow at the Westview Cemetery in
Hotel arrangements can be made for those attending the Washington service with
the following hotels: Homewood Suites, $169.00 per night plus tax, 8728 Colesville Road,
Silver Spring, Maryland (301-565-0005); Doubletree Hotel, 8727 Colesville Road, Silver
Spring Maryland, $139.00 per night plus tax (301-589-5200); and Hampton Inn, 8728
Colesville Road, Silver Spring, Maryland (301-588-5887).
Reese/Bacon Funeral Home is entrusted with arrangements. The funeral home
address is 3447 14th Street, N.W., Washington D.C. 20010. Telephone for the funeral home
is 202-286-4384; fax is 202-483-0156.
Mrs. Ocie Hoyt’s home address and telephone are 6524 16th
Washington, D.C. 20012. The home telephone is 202-882-4916.
Street, N.W.,
from The College of Bishops
Bishop Teresa E. Snorton, Chair
Bishop Lawrence Reddick, Secretary
205-515-7322
BISHOP PAUL A. G. STEWART, SR., NOW SENIOR BISHOP AND CEO OF
THE CHRISTIAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Upon the death of Bishop Hoyt on Sunday, October 27, 2013, Bishop Paul A. G.
Stewart, Sr., who was named “Acting Senior Bishop” by the College of Bishops following
Bishop Hoyt’s health crisis in Houston, Texas (Sept. 22, 2013), officially assumed the
The Senior Bishop is the bishop who is first in order of election of all bishops still in
active service. Bishop Stewart was elected the 50th
Episcopal Church in the 1998 General Conference in Birmingham, Alabama.
The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church’s membership is worldwide, representing
the United States; Haiti and Jamaica in the Caribbean; Liberia, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria in
West Africa; and the countries of Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda,
South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe in central, eastern and southern Africa.
Bishop Stewart is presently presiding bishop of the Third Episcopal District,
comprising the Michigan-Indiana, the Southeast Missouri and Illinois, and the Kansas-
Missouri Regions. Upon his election in 1998, he was assigned to the Fifth Episcopal District
(Regions in Alabama and Florida). In 2002 he was assigned to the Third Episcopal District.
He and his wife, Mrs. Earline Stewart, reside in Florissant, Missouri.
bishop of the Christian Methodist
from The College of Bishops
Bishop Teresa E. Snorton, Chair
Bishop Lawrence Reddick, Secretary
205-515-7322
