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Each jurisdiction is responsible for boundaries of annual conferences within those states and electing its own bishops. [ 2 ] Equal numbers of laity and clergy, elected by the annual conferences, serve as delegates to the Jurisdictional Conferences, which are held once every four years in the same years as the General Conference meets.
The Global Methodist Church launched in 2022 following significant differences of opinion and doctrine within the United Methodist Church regarding issues of human sexuality. Numerous United Methodist Congregations voted to disaffiliate from their UMC Annual Conferences and affiliate with the GMC. Structurally, the GMC remains very similar to ...
Hope Morgan Ward (born September 18, 1951) is a bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected and consecrated to the episcopacy in 2004. She has served as the Bishop of North Carolina since 2012. Biography
Kenneth Lee Carder (born November 18, 1940) is a retired American bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1992. Carder distinguished himself as a pastor, a member of Annual Conference and General U.M. agencies , a bishop, seminary professor, and an author.
Sharma D. Lewis (born 1963) is an American bishop in the United Methodist Church.She was consecrated in 2016 and is the resident bishop of the Mississippi episcopal area. She is the first African American woman to be elected as bishop in the UMC's Southeastern Jurisdictional Conferen
Pages in category "United Methodist bishops of the Southeastern Jurisdiction" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The South Carolina Conference is an annual conference (regional episcopal area, similar to a diocese) of the United Methodist Church. [1] This conference serves the state of South Carolina with its administrative offices and the office of the bishop (currently L. Jonathan Holston) being in Columbia, South Carolina.
He chaired his conference's Board of Ordained Ministry (1984-1988), also serving as a member (1980-1988 and 2002–2004). He was on the Terring Committee of the Large Church Initiative of the General Board of Discipleship for twelve years. He was a member of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Committee on Episcopacy (1996-2004).