Barnett K. Thoroughgood, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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20th and 21st-century American Church of God pastor and church leader
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About Barnett K. Thoroughgood
- Barnett Karl Thoroughgood (November 7, 1949 – February 5, 2012) was an African-American Pentecostal-Holiness minister and church leader of the Church of God in Christ.
- He was an influential pastor in the city of Virginia Beach, Virginia and the Hampton Roads area of Virginia known for his public service and who served as the Commissioner of Ecclesiastical Services and the Former Adjutant General of the COGIC denomination from 2001 until his death in 2012.Thoroughgood, with serving in the capacity of Commissioner of Ecclesiastical Services, had the responsibilities of being the international chief minister of formal religious and civil protocol for the COGIC denomination, being the chief of security for COGIC clergy at COGIC's national conventions, supervising and overseeing the installation and ordination of bishops, and overseeing public relations for the denomination.
- He was the fifth person appointed to this office of Adjutant General in 2000 by Bishop Chandler David Owens.
- He was the first person consecrated to the office of Adjutant Bishop in 2001 by then-Presiding Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson.
- He was appointed to the position of Commissioner of Ecclesiastical Services in 2008 by current Presiding Bishop, Bishop Charles E.
- Blake.
- He was succeeded by Bishop Matthew Williams of Orlando, FL.
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