Career Brief
Pastor Anthony serves as the senior pastor of Washington’s historic Metropolitan Wesley African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Founded in 1832, the Metropolitan Wesley AME Zion Church served as a station on the famed “Underground Railroad,” and was the birthplace of the first public school for Washington’s African-American children.

Pastor Anthony has a long and distinguished history of public service and advocacy, serving in the administrations of Washington, DC’s, first two elected Mayors, and as the director of the Congressional District Office of the District of Columbia’s first elected representative to the United States House of Representatives. On April 30, 2000, Rev. Dr. Anthony was inducted into the inaugural class of the Washington, DC, Hall of Fame, receiving the Legacy Award for Religion.

He received degrees from Columbia and Harvard Universities.

Personal
Pastor Anthony is a native of Washington, DC, and a graduate of Anacostia Senior High School.