Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson

The Late Most Reverend Presiding Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson (September 22, 1939-March 20, 2007) was an American Pentecostal-Holiness, Charismatic minister who served as the international Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ from November 1999 until his death on March 20, 2007. 

Bishop Patterson was the second youngest person to ever be elected Presiding Bishop of COGIC at the age 60 in 2000, second to Bishop J. O. Patterson, Sr.who was 56 when he was elected Presiding Bishop in 1968. Patterson was born to Bishop William Archie 'W. A.' (1898–1991) and Mary Louise Williams Patterson (1901–1981) in the parsonage next door to the Church of God in Christ in Humboldt, Tennessee and is the youngest of six children. He confessed Christ as his Savior at 11 years old at Holy Temple COGIC in Memphis, Tennessee.

Gilbert Earl Patterson was an American Pentecostal-Holiness leader and minister who served as the international Presiding Bishop and Chief Apostle of the Church of God in Christ, Inc.