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B. Michael Watson (born July 3, 1949) is a bishop of The United Methodist Church, elected in 2000.He served as resident bishop of the North Georgia Annual Conference, which comprises 1,000 churches, more than 1,500 clergy members, and more than 320,000 lay members.
The constitution of The United Methodist Church established five jurisdictions within the United States and it specifies which states will be a part of each. Each jurisdiction is responsible for boundaries of annual conferences within those states and electing its own bishops.
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 ...
The United Methodist Church (UMC) ... The conference was scheduled to be held in 2020 but had to be postponed because of the COVID pandemic, international travel challenges, and escalating ...
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
The UMC General Conference will convene in Charlotte for two weeks starting April 22 to vote on a proposed budget reduction and ... United Methodist Church administrative staff members Caitlin ...
The United Methodist Church this year removed bans on same-sex marriage and gay clergy. ... When progressives lost at the 2019 United Methodist General Conference thanks to African votes, ...
The North Georgia Conference is a regional episcopal area, (similar to a diocese) of the United Methodist Church. (Not to be confused with the "Annual Conference" which is the yearly meeting of the North Georgia Conference itself.)