{{Infobox Christian leader | honorific_prefix = The Most Reverend | name = Neil C. Ellis | image = Neil Ellis preaching 2025-2.png | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Bimini, Bahamas | occupation = Pastor, author, speaker | residence = Nassau, Bahamas | children = 2 | footnotes = | title = Founder and Presiding Bishop-Emeritus of the Global United Fellowship | death_date = | death_place = | church = Global United Fellowship | type = Presiding Bishop | coat_of_arms = | ordained_by = | ordination = | consecration = 1995 | consecrated_by = | education = }}'''Neil Ellis''' is a Bahamian Baptist pastor, and founder and first presiding bishop of the Global United Fellowship.
== Biography == In 1985, Ellis organized Mount Tabor Union Baptist Church,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our Founding Bishop |url=https://globalunitedfellowship.org/global-ellis/ |access-date=2024-08-22 |website=Global United Fellowship}}</ref> and by 1995, he was consecrated as a bishop within the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship.<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Civil Rights: Walk of Fame - Bishop Neil C. Ellis |url=https://www.nps.gov/features/malu/feat0002/wof/Neil_Ellis.htm |access-date=2024-08-22 |website=www.nps.gov}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Mike |date=2013-08-21 |title=Bishop Neil C. Ellis Resigns from Bishop Morton and the Full Gospel Fellowship |url=https://ugospel.com/bishop-neil-c-ellis-resigns-from-bishop-morton-and-the-full-gospel-fellowship/ |access-date=2024-08-22 |website=uGospel.com |language=en-US |archive-date=2025-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250304230742/https://ugospel.com/bishop-neil-c-ellis-resigns-from-bishop-morton-and-the-full-gospel-fellowship/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2013, after Bishop Paul S. Morton announced his intent to retire as the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship's presiding bishop, Ellis ran a campaign to succeed him. By August 2013, Ellis resigned from the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, "to avoid a possible division within the fellowship."<ref name=":0" /> After resigning, his church also disaffiliated with the Full Gospel Baptists alongside all Bahamian churches within the denomination.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bishop Neil C. Ellis resigns |url=https://www.sfltimes.com/uncategorized/bishop-neil-c-ellis-resigns |access-date=2024-08-22 |website=South Florida Times |language=en-US}}</ref> Following a two-day meeting, Ellis founded the Global United Fellowship.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ellis speaks on new church fellowship |url=https://www.tribune242.com/news/2013/sep/27/ellis-speaks-new-church-fellowship/ |access-date=2024-08-22 |website=www.tribune242.com |language=en}}</ref>
In 2015, Ellis served as chief consecrator of Marvin Sapp, whom he appointed as metropolitan bishop in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-07-21 |title=Marvin Sapp Appointed Metropolitan Bishop Within Global United Fellowship |url=https://ugospel.com/marvin-sapp-appointed-metropolitan-bishop-within-global-united-fellowship/ |access-date=2024-08-22 |website=uGospel.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-07-30 |title=Marvin Sapp Appointed to New Role in the GUF to Oversee 100 Pastors in Six States |url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/marvin-sapp-appointed-new-role-guf-oversee-100-pastors-six-states.html |access-date=2024-08-22 |website=www.christianpost.com |language=en}}</ref>
In October 2023, Ellis resigned as the presiding bishop for Global United Fellowship. He was succeeded by Bishop Joel Peebles.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-10-03 |title=Bishop Joel Robert Peebles, Sr. To Succeed Bishop Neil C. Ellis as the Next Presiding Bishop of Global United Fellowship |url=https://phillysfavor.com/bishop-joel-robert-peebles-sr-to-succeed-bishop-neil-c-ellis-as-the-next-presiding-bishop-of-global-united-fellowship/ |access-date=2024-08-22 |website=Philly's Favor 100.7 FM |language=en-US}}</ref>
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