Meet the Diocese Bishop

Bishop Emery Lindsay is a native of Kansas City, Kansas. His first appointment as pastor was at Christ Temple Church in Memphis, Tennessee. During his pastorate in Memphis, he was joined in holy matrimony to Pearl Hendricks of Compton, California. Through this marriage, they were blessed with six children: Camille, Melanie, Rachel, Erica, Vernon, and Brittany. Since that time they have become the grandparents of five: Pierre, Cleo Jr. and Sydney Cain, and Zoie and Kennedy Odum.

 

To prepare himself for the ministry, Bishop Lindsay attended Olivet Nazarene College and later transferred to LeMoynes Owen College in Memphis, Tennessee, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Science in 1976.

 

In 1980, Emery Lindsay was elected president of the National Sunday School and Holiness Young Peoples Congress. He served in that capacity for eight years.

 

In 1982, he was assigned Pastor of Christ Temple Cathedral, Chicago, Illinois.

 

In 1988, he received a Master of Arts degree in Urban Ministries from Trinity Evangelical Divinity.

 

In 1990, he was elected Bishop of the Northern Diocese of COCHUSA (Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana). Two years later, he was elected Second Vice President of the National Convention of the Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A.

 

In 1992, Bishop Emery Lindsay was elected Vice President of the National Convention, COCHUSA.

 

In 1996, he was elected President of the National Convention, COCHUSA at the Centennial Anniversary Convention in Jackson, Mississippi.

 

In 2004, he was elected Senior Bishop of National Convention, COCHUSA in Irvine, California.

 

In 2005, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of New Church Specialties.

 

In 2009, Bishop Lindsay was assigned Pastor of Christ Temple Cathedral in Los Angeles and Presiding Bishop of the Western Diocese.