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ORDER OF THE NEW HAVEN BOARD OF ALDERS DESIGNATING THE CORNER OF BREWSTER STREET AND SHELTON AVENUE AS "GENERAL BISHOP ELIJAH DAVIS, JR. CORNER" IN PERPETUITY TO HONOR THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF BISHOP ELIJAH DAVIS, JR. FOR HIS GREAT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NEWHALLVILLE COMMUNITY AND CITY OF NEW HAVEN
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WHEREAS: General Bishop Elijah Davis, Jr. has ascended to become a well-known and respected spiritual leader serving in many roles and capacities of responsibility as a spiritual and community leader in the Newhallville Neighborhood and citywide for many years; and
WHEREAS: Bishop Elijah Davis Jr., born on June 2, 1946, in Ayden North Carolina, the son of the late Elijah Davis Sr. and Mother Novella Davis-Royster, was educated in the South Ayden school system; and
WHEREAS: on October1, 1967, he was united in holy matrimony to the former Esther Hardy, and they were blessed with two children, Rev. Dr. LaTonya Renee Thorpe (Adolphe) and Retired Connecticut State Trooper Christopher E. Davis (Lolita), and a host of grandchildren and great grandchildren; and
WHEREAS: Bishop Davis and his family later moved to New Haven, and joined Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church in 1974 under the leadership of Bishop Lonnie Gorham; and
WHEREAS: Bishop Davis began a journey for him that has transformed not only the lives of he and his family, but countless others as he accepted his divine call and preached his initial sermon on November 11, 1980, became the Pastor of Pitts Chapel in 1986, received his Bachelor's degree in Theology in 1989, was consecrated Bishop on October 1996, and received his Doctorate of Divinity in February 1997; and
WHEREAS: he is a Connecticut State Police Chaplain and is the Presiding Annual Bishop of the Northern Connecticut Annual conference, General Bishop of the Unified Freewill Baptist Churches Inc., and the Second Vice President of the National Convention of Freewill Baptist U.S.A.; and
WHEREAS: over the years, Bishop Davis has helped coun...
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