Bishop Harry Calloway Jr., D.D.

Harry Calloway Jr. was born in 1946 to Alma and Harry Calloway Sr. in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the 2nd eldest of four children. He became a faithful member of the House of God in 1953, and became a church organist at an early age. His love of music inspired him to organize the first national choir of the House of God.

While serving as a devoted missionary, he met and eventually married Berniece Calloway. This beautiful marriage has yielded 4 children. Harry Calloway became a mission leader in Dayton, Ohio in 1980; and eventually founded Temple #3. He graduated from Central State University with a Bachelors of Science in Education. He furthered his education by acquiring his Masters in Guidance and Counseling in 1984, along with a Masters in Administration in 1992 from the University of Dayton. He later received a Doctorate of Divinity from the Kentucky College of Contemporary Religion in 1995.

Harry Calloway has served as the Assistant Divisional Superintendent of the Mid-Western division of the House of God and succeeded the Jr. Chief Apostle as the State Superintendent of Southern Ohio of the House of God. He was elevated to the status of Vicar Bishop in 1992, and became an ordained Bishop at the General Assembly in 1999.

He has worked with the Juvenile Detention Center since 1984. He has occupied the role of jail chaplain to the Montgomery County Jail since 1995 and retired after working in the Dayton Public School System for over 29 years. He is a member of the Ohio College Admissions Association, Music Educators National Conference, National Education Association, Ohio Education Counsel, Dayton Education Association, Ohio Mission Counseling Association, Professional Music Fraternity, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Delta Z Chapter. Bishop Harry Calloway is currently working on becoming a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor through the University of Dayton.

In the early 1990s, God gave Bishop Calloway a vision to bring together all of the House of God churches in the Dayton area into one church. Bishop Calloway currently occupies the role of co-pastor to the United House of God alongside Elect Lady Alcerean Watson.