(2014) George Augustus Stallings Jr., then a priest of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, founded the Imani Temple African-American Catholic Congregation as a single congregation in
Washington, D.C., in July 1989. The Imani Temple African-American Catholic Congregation was founded as a result of the
Black Catholic movement. At its founding, Stallings believed Roman Catholicism did not serve the
Black and African American community nor recognized talent. In May 1990, Stallings was consecrated as bishop for the African-American Catholic Congregation by Richard Michael Bridges—a bishop of the American Independent Orthodox Church. He was assisted by
Emil Fairfield Rodriguez of the
Mexican National Catholic Church and Donald Lawrence Jolly. By September 1991, Bridges's group conferred upon Stallings the title of archbishop. designed by noted Washington architect
Appleton P. Clark Jr. and opened in 1893. performed a conditional consecration for Stallings and three other married
Independent Catholic bishops (including
Peter Paul Brennan) at the Imani Temple church in Washington. In 2013, a female Baptist bishop in
Detroit,
Michigan (resigning from their Baptist congregation for their
same-sex marriage to an emeritus bishop of the African-American Catholic Congregation) established an affirming church with their partner. In 2014, the denomination decided to relocate to
Prince George's County, Maryland, and sold the Imani Temple in Washington to property developers. ==Doctrine==