Founder & Chief Apostle

Born in Jefferson County, West Virginia to the late E. Eugene and Frances Baltimore, Bishop Wilbert L. Baltimore’s ministerial gifts were exercised at an early age under the tutelage of his father, the late Bishop E. Eugene Baltimore, who was the Pastor of the Baltimore Temple Church in Ranson, West Virginia and also President and Senior Bishop of the King’s Apostle Holiness Church of God, Incorporated. As he began to further seek the Lord concerning his ministry, God prepared him for a most unusual anointing. The Lord not only blessed him in a spiritual manner, but also in a way wherein he could communicate with, and relate to people on many levels.

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Bishop Wilbert Baltimore was ordained as a licensed minister by the King’s Apostle movement in 1965, where he held such positions as Minister of Music, Moderator of the Youth Conference and National Field Supervisor. In 1980, Dr. Baltimore was consecrated a Bishop in the movement. Over time, he was consecrated and served as Vice Bishop.  In September of 1999, the Lord called Senior Bishop E. Eugene Baltimore to his eternal rest.  Today, Chief Apostle Wilbert L. Baltimore stands as the Presidential and Apostolic Successor to his late Father.

 

In October of 1967, the Lord visited Apostle Wilbert Baltimore in a vision and showed him a field that needed harvesting – some of the crop was ripe and some was not. The Lord then equipped and directed him to move his family to Maryland.  In March of the following year, the Holy Temple Church of God was established. Under Apostle Baltimore’s guidance and leadership, the Holy Temple Church of God has now become the Holy Temple Cathedral (HTC); having moved from a little building in Jessup, MD with 4 members, to the “Church House” on (Anne) Arundel on the Bay in Annapolis, MD, to the “little church on the corner” at Kirby Lane and Dorsey Avenue, to building a church on 7.2 acres of property on Bestgate Road.   On March 8, 2018, the Lord allowed HTC to purchase the former Sojourner-Douglass College campus at 135 Stepneys Lane in Edgewater, MD. The building consists of the Sanctuary for which seats 170 people, 6 classrooms for which can seat up to 25 individuals, a Computer Lab, a Children’s Room, a Chemistry Room, a Conference Room, a Health Room, a Bookstore, a Library, 2 Kitchens, an Administrative Suite with 8 offices and the “EMBRACE,” a beautiful memorial garden on the premises, erected in honor of civil rights activist Coretta Scott King. On this property, plans are currently underway to build a new edifice which will seat 279 members. This has been Chief Apostle Wilbert Baltimore’s vision, to provide a multi-purpose complex that would be the General Headquarters to the King’s Apostle Church World Ministries and that would serve the needs of the Holy Temple Cathedral and the surrounding communities.

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Dr. Baltimore is an accomplished teacher, lecturer, minister, administrator, and musician, who in addition to his pastoral duties, was an elementary school Principal and Administrator in the Anne Arundel County School System. His academic accomplishments include a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education from Shepherd College; a Masters in Elementary Administration from the George Washington University; a Doctorate of Divinity from the Trinity Hall College; a PhD in Religion from the North Carolina College of Theology; a Doctorate of Biblical Studies from the North Carolina College of Theology; and appointment to “Who’s Who,” for the 2006-2009 National listing of the Heritage Registry.  Chief Apostle Baltimore is the proud father of four daughters:  Rochelle Eileen, Carol Antoinette, and the twins, Angela Louise and the late Annette Lynn, and he is “Pop-Pop” to five grandsons:  Kirk, Kameron, Marcus, Trent, and Traton.