According to the official web site of the Episcopal Church (episcopalchurch.org), Absalom Jones was the first African American priest. The church sets aside February 13 to "commemorate blessed Absalom, the first black priest and founder of the first black congregation in the Episcopal Church."
Absalom Jones helped to found another historically black denomination. In 1787, Jones, Richard Allen, and other black leaders founded the Free African Society when they were forced out of the white Methodist Episcopal Church. While Jones found his spiritual home within the Episcopal Church proper, Allen created a new Wesleyan denomination for African American worshipers, calling it the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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