Summary: Gilbert Earl Patterson was an American Holiness Pentecostal leader and minister who served as the international Presiding Bishop and Chief Apostle of the Church of God in Christ, Inc. Church of God in Christ, the nation's largest African-American Pentecostal denomination, died in Memphis. He was 67 and lived in Memphis, where the church has its headquarters. The cause was heart failure, his nephew Milton T. Hawkins said.Mar 22, 2007
