Bishop Horace M. Johnson, Jr.
2nd Assistant Presiding Bishop
Bishop H. M. Johnson, Jr. was born in Washington, D.C. on March 25, 1929, to the late Horace Sr. and Jennie Johnson. He has one sister, Grace C. Smith, who continues to remain in the Washington, D.C. area. Bishop Johnson attended District of Columbia Public Schools. After completing High School, he served in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict, where he received an honorable discharged with the terminal rank of Staff Sergeant in 1952. In 1966 he married his loving wife, Mary T. Johnson. They have been happily married for 41 years.
Bishop Johnson was filled with the Holy Ghost at the Bibleway Apostolic Church in 1967. Possessing a love and a gift for teaching, he was led by the Lord Jesus Christ to study and receive training at the Bibleway Training Institute and the Bibleway Apostolic Junior College. He was later appointed Assistant Director of the same school. In 1973 Bishop Johnson continued his studies and graduated from the Washington Bible College/Capital Bible Seminary in Lanham, Maryland. He is a certified ETA (Evangelical Training Association) Approved Teacher from the National Association of Evangelicals, based in Wheaton, IL. After 33 years of service as an employee of the U.S. Federal Government, he retired from the Department of Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) as an Accounting Technician in 1988.
Bishop Johnson became a member of the AOH CHURCH OF GOD, Inc. in June 1975. He is the founder of Friendship AOH CHURCH OF GOD which originated in his apartment in July 1975 with the Lord Jesus Christ and his wife. April 1976, they were blessed to move into a store front in Capital Heights, Maryland. During the year of 1979, Jesus Christ enabled Bishop and Mother Johnson to purchase their first church building in Deanwood Park, Maryland. A few years later he was appointed as an Overseer in the AOH CHURCH OF GOD and served faithfully for nine years.
During his years of service as an Overseer, he faithfully served Churches in the states of Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. Bishop Johnson is also the founder of Philadelphia AOH CHURCH OF GOD which began in 1990. Twenty years after the purchasing the first Church building, The Lord Jesus Christ enable Bishop and Mother Johnson to build a new Church building in Hyattsville, Maryland. The Friendship AOH CHURCH OF GOD has grown in membership from two members to approximately 150 members. Since June 1996, Bishop Johnson has been serving as a consecrated bishop, overseeing churches in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, and Northern Alabama. Bishop Johnson also serves as the Director of the National Youth Department, member of the Executive Board and the Ordination Committee of the AOH CHURCH OF GOD, Inc.
