# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jarena-lee
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:55:17.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jarena-lee"
name: "Jarena Lee"
slug: "jarena-lee"
description: "Jarena Lee was the first woman preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). Born into a free Black family in New Jersey, Lee asked the founder of the AME church, Richard Allen, to be a preacher. Although Allen initially refused, after hearing her preach in 1819, Allen approved her preaching ministry. A leader in the Wesleyan-Holiness movement, Lee preached the doctrine of entire sanctification as an itinerant pastor throughout the pulpits of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination. In 1836, Lee became the first African American woman to publish an autobiography."
tagline: "American preacher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jarena_Lee.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1783-02-11"
deathDate: "1864-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.615048
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarena_Lee"
    title: "Jarena Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarena_Lee"
    title: "Jarena Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%9C%D7%99"
    title: "ג'רינה לי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jarena_Lee"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jarena_Lee"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6160129"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump