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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.
The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant [8] ... [38] [39] In 2022, the Western Jurisdiction elected a second openly gay bishop, ...
The Central Jurisdiction began to be dismantled in the 1960s, integrating African-American bishops into the five geographical jurisdictions. By the 1968 merger of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, all bishops were assigned to these jurisdictions, and within them, each to one episcopal area.
United Methodist News, the United Methodist Church's official outlet, reported that 1,603 churches or 30.3% of the congregations in 2019, have left the South Central Jurisdiction conferences ...
Plus other rulings on bishops' jurisdiction. ... “We are unable to offer a path to separation from the United Methodist Church for local churches,” the office of United Methodist bishop Rev ...
Jurisdictions elected the church's first Native American and Filipino American bishops, with other landmark votes within specific regions, according to United Methodist News Service. “It is a ...
Fama Onema 1972 Bishop Joseph Fama Onema is a retired Congolese Bishop of United Methodist Church, elected to that office in 1972. Mamidi Elia Peter 1972;
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 ...