has become a minister after claiming that actors “can’t talk” about religion in Hollywood. On Saturday, Dec. 21, the 69-year-old was baptized and received his minister’s license in New York City’s Kelly Temple.
The news was confirmed by Archbishop Christopher Bryant in a Facebook post. “We celebrate the addition of Minister Denzel Washington into the clergy, having received his minister’s license in the Church of God in Christ today, in a truly uplifting moment,” wrote Bryant. The archbishop noted that the Oscar-winning actor donned a white robe because “in the same service, he received water baptism.
” Bryant added that the Kelly Temple is “a place close to [Washington’s] heart” as he “attended the church as a child and testified to being filled with the Holy Spirit after visiting another church” with Richard Townsend in the 1980s. “It took a while, but I’m finally here,” Washington said during the ceremony, according to Bryant. “If [God] can do this for me, there’s nothing He can’t do for you.
The sky literally is the limit.” Washington previously told in November that going to the West Angeles church with Townsend was a “powerful” experience. He recalled that at the end of the sermon, the church offered a “call to the altar,” asking those who want to be “saved” to go up.
Washington shared that he was taken “into a back room somewhere,” where they “prayed for” him. “I’m thinking, I’m just gonna give it up .
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