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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.
With regard to the membership of Annual Conferences of the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection, the 2014 Book of Discipline states: [1]. The voting membership of the conference shall include the following: all elders on the stationed, reserve, and superannuated lists; all conference preachers elected to elders’ orders; all conference preachers serving as pastors of organized Allegheny ...
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. It is part of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference. The South Carolina Conference provides funding to four institutions of higher learning:
Whitaker was elected bishop by a special called session of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference of the U.M. Church, 26–27 February 2001 to fill the episcopal vacancy created by the death of Bishop Cornelius L. Henderson, who died 7 December 2000 after a two-year battle with cancer.
This conference serves the western half of the state of North Carolina, with its administrative offices and the office of the bishop being located in Huntersville, North Carolina. [1] It is part of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference. [2] The current presiding Bishop is Bishop Kenneth H Carter.
The Rev. Carl Julian Sanders was elected to the Episcopacy in 1972 by the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference of the United Methodist Church. He was assigned the Birmingham episcopal area, consisting of the State of Alabama and the northwest panhandle of Florida (the Alabama-West Florida and North Alabama Annual Conferences). He served there ...
This conference serves the eastern half of the state of North Carolina, with its administrative offices and the office of the bishop located in Garner, North Carolina. It is part of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference. The current bishop of the North Carolina Conference is Bishop Connie Mitchell Shelton.
Ken Carder was a delegate to the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference of the U.M. Church in 1980. He was elected General Conference delegate, 1984–92. He has served in several Annual and General Conference positions, including Chair of the Conference Council on Finance and Administration, a Director of the General Board of Church and ...