COGIC bishop built a church while breaking ground in Pittsburgh TV and radio. Daniel Silliman| Image: Courtesy of Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ / edits by Rick Szuecs As a TV news reporter and a Church of God in Christ (COGIC) pastor, Loran Mann tried to keep his two jobs separate. And that worked. Mostly. But once in the 1980s, he was first to the scene of a standoff where an armed fugitive on the run after murdering his wife was cornered by police. The man decided he would surrender—but only to the locally famous newsman and man of God.