Zion Cathedral Church of God in Christ, Inc.
Staff & Leaders

Bishop Frank O. White, Senior Pastor

Bishop Frank Otha White holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Hofstra University and a Doctorate of Sacred Theology from the United Christian College. He serves as Member of the Long Island Council of Churches and Chairman of the Long Island Conference of Clergy. Bishop White has faithfully executed his duties as Pastor of the Zion Cathedral Church of God in Christ for 40 years. He serves as Chairman of the Board for the Zion Community Development Corporation (Economic arm of Zion Cathedral) and Chief Executive Officer of The Cedarmore Corporation (Social Services arm of Zion Cathedral). In July 1988, he was consecrated Prelate of the Third Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Eastern New York. In 1993 he was appointed by the late Presiding Bishop L. H. Ford, to the Office of Interim Financial Secretary and later elected to that office on April 6, 1994, serving for 15 years. The most significant acknowledgment of his devotion to the Church of God in Christ, Inc., was his election to the prestigious General Board on November 11, 2008, one week after the nation’s most historic Presidential Election of Barak Obama, an African American. Bishop White has been the recipient of many Proclamations, Citations and Awards, among which were the prestigious “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award” from the Freeport Human Relations Committee, the Church of God in Christ’s Highest Tribute, the “Bishop Charles Harrison Mason Award,” from The Religious Workers Guild, Inc. and the “Frederick Douglas Award” from the Long Island Council of African Americans. He is also a lifetime member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Bishop White is married to Dr. Juliet White, his lovely wife of 52 years. He is the proud father of 5 successful children and grandfather of 5 grandchildren with bright futures. Bishop White is a true friend of humanity, an advocate of brotherhood, and a proletariat of the commonwealth of Freeport and abroad. His accomplishments, however great, do not inhibit his cosmopolitan ministry. He is a man with a vision of enhanced magnitude; a vision for the advancement of man and his heightened consciousness of achieving a better united society. He avails himself in all altruism to nameless areas of societal interests as an example to the young, an encouragement to the old, and a mentor for the "up and coming." One who was brought before great men as a child has, himself, become a great man, in wisdom, spirit and character.