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The UMC General Conference, which is the denomination's top legislative assembly, gathers for its second and final week in Charlotte. This is the general conference in session on April 30, 2024 at ...
The GMC general conference also chose a new way to handle bishops. United Methodist bishops, as in most denominations, preside over geographic regions. United Methodist bishops, as in most ...
The UMC General Conference is gathering in Charlotte to decide on legislation expected to shape the long-term future of the nation’s largest mainline Protestant denomination following a historic ...
¶200 of The Book of Discipline of the Free Methodist Church states that "The general conferences are the governing bodies of the Free Methodist Church. Each general conference shall consist of at least one annual conference or may, when necessary, make alternative provision for caring for annual conference functions as provided for in ¶220.2."
Newly elected bishops are consecrated in worship services at the end of each jurisdictional conference, through the laying-on-of-hands of the Bishops present. As of the 2012 General Conference, Bishops are required to retire if they reach age 68 on or before July 1 in the year of jurisdictional conferences.
A central conference is one of seven annual conferences organized by the United Methodist Church outside of the United States.Composed of equal numbers of lay and clergy members, they connect annual conferences "for common ministry, adapt regulations as the conditions in the respective regions may require, and elect bishops... and fix their tenure."
In 2019, at a special governing General Conference, 53 percent of United Methodist delegates reaffirmed the church’s affirmation of sex only within marriage between a husband and a wife.
General Conference is the highest deliberative body for the United Methodist Church, the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Church, among others. [1] Jurisdictional Conferences in the U.S.; and; Central Conferences outside the U.S. elect and assign bishops in their region and comprise; Annual Conferences, the basic organizational unit in the ...