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Elder O.T. Jones, Jr
Band, 1922-2008
A.k.a. Ozro Thurston Jones, Jr.
Bishop, Pastor, Minister, Theologian. Born July 2, 1922. Died January 9, 2008. Bishop Ozro Thurston "O.T." Jones, Jr., was a bishop and former member of the General Board of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), and former pastor of Holy Temple Church of God in Christ at 60th and Callowhill Streets, Philadelphia, until he retired in 2000. He was born in Arkansas and moved with his family to West Philadelphia when he was a boy. His father, Orzo Thurston Jones, Sr., also a COGIC bishop, in 1941 appointed O.T. Jones, Jr., as leader of approximately 800 young people at Holy Temple, where he organized youth groups. Following his undergraduate and graduate education, including a doctoral degree in Sacred Theology at Temple University, O.T. Jones, Jr., became a missionary in Liberia and in 1953 was appointed pastor of Memorial Church of God in Christ in Haverford, PA. Later he would rejoin Holy Temple as associate pastor under his father, newly appointed Senior Bishop Jones in 1963. He was called to serve as pastor after his father's death in 1972.
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