Bishop Levi Jenkins Coppin (December 24, 1848-June 25, 1924) was a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the editor of the AME Church Review, and one of the founders of the American Negro Academy.

[3] In 1867, he was admitted to the annual conference from the Bethel Church in Wilmington, Delaware.

[3] He was elected editor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Review in 1888, a position he held until 1896.

[3][5] In 1900 Coppin was elected AME bishop for South Africa and he worked there and in Ethiopia as a missionary.

The couple traveled as missionaries to South Africa where they founded the Bethel Institute, a school which promoted self-help programs.