Southern California Second Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction

About Bishop George Dallas McKinney

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Bishop George Dallas McKinney was born August 9, 1932 in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Bishop McKinney is a graduate of Booker T. Washington High School in Arkansas and a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Arkansas State College where he received a B.A. degree. He studied social work at the University of Michigan, graduate School of Social Work. He received his M.A. degree from Oberlin College, School of Theology in Ohio and a Ph. D. from California Graduate School of College in Glendale, California, and received an honorary D.D. from Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

Bishop McKinney is the founder and pastor of St. Stephen's Cathedral Church of God in Christ (COGIC) which he founded in 1962. He and his wife, Jean, are also the founders of the St. Stephan's Day Care Center, the Southeast Counseling and Consulting Services, the St. Stephen's Day Care Center, the St. Stephan's Christian School, the St. Stephen's Retirement Center and the American Urban University are all located in San Diego.

Since 1985, Bishop McKinney has served as Jurisdiction Prelate of Southern California Second Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Church of God in Christ. In November 2001, he was elevated to the General Board (the presidium) of the Church of God in Christ, Inc.

A former probation officer is a renowned licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor, Bishop McKinney is internationally known for his dynamic preaching and teaching ministry, which places him in constant demand as a conference convention speaker.

Bishop McKinney is the author of numerous books. He served as the senior editor for the African American Devotional Bible, published by Zondervan in April 1997. Currently, he serves as publisher for the San Diego Monitor Newspaper. His literary contributions now include the best selling-book entitled Cross the Line; Reclaiming the Inner City for God, which he co-authored with William Kritlow in 1998.

He has received numerous honors in the field of religion and community service. In 1995, the San Diego Rotary Club named Bishop McKinney, "Mr. San Diego." On March 7, 2001 the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), presented Bishop McKinney with a Racial Reconciliation Man of the Year Award in recognition of all the work he has done for many years in the area of racial unity Bishop McKinney has been happily married for 45 years. He is a proud parent of 5 sons and grandparent of 13.