Bishop James LevertDavis is the 123^rd elected and consecrated Bishop in theAfrican Methodist Episcopal church and the newly elected Presiding Prelate of
the Seventh Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

He is a fifth-generationAfrican Methodist Episcopal minister, and the son of the late Mother Dorothy
Lynch, the late Reverend Sam Davis and Mother Alma Davis. Bishop Davis
attended both the public and private schools of Alabama. He received the call
to ministry at age 12. Upon high school graduation, he enrolled a Morris
Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia, earning the Bachelor of Science degree; and
subsequently, the Master of Divinity degree from the Turner Theological
Seminary and the Doctorate of Ministry degree from the Interdenominational
Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Bishop Davis is married to his partner in theministry, Arelis Beevers Davis. They are the very proud parents of Dr. Nicole
Davis Pass and Damarys Monique Burnett, her husband, Christopher, three
grandsons, Patrick James and Ashton James Pass and Baron Christopher Valentino
Burnett and two granddaughters, Noel Olivia Burnett and Violet Joy Cristina.