at Drew Theological School.

While in El Paso, he met Raquel Mora, a Methodist pastor's daughter. Cliff and his wife, Jane, have three grown children (Bonnie Marden, Stephen, and Jonathan), and seven grandchildren.

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Bishop Alfred Johnson is a retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 1996-2004.
The Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church approved a conditional disaffiliation for 55 churches on Saturday during a virtual session. She has also been an adjunct professor in Prophetic Leadership for the Doctor of Ministry program at Drew University and was adjunct professor in Evangelism and Mission at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas. Bishop Grant J. Hagiya invited Carlo in 2014 to serve on the cabinet of the Greater Northwest Area as Conference Superintendent and Director of Connectional Ministries of the Alaska Conference.

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Bishop Grant Hagiya was the resident bishop of the Los Angeles Area, which includes the California-Pacific Conference in the Western Jurisdiction of The United Methodist Church.  He was elected to the episcopacy in 2008. Alfred Norris was elected to the episcopacy by the South Central Jurisdictional Conference in 1992 and was assigned to the Northwest Texas/New Mexico Area, with headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ------------------------


More than 2,400 across the nation have done the same. In 2002 she became the Director of Connectional Ministries and Assistant to the Bishop, a position she held until 2005 when she began her service as dean of the cabinet and superintendent of the Seattle and Tacoma Districts.
  • 1976—Pastor, Hiland Park UMC, Panama City, FL
  • In the first in-person meeting since 2019, the Council of Bishops (COB) will meet April 29 May 5, 2023, in Chicago to tackle the future of The United Methodist Church, welcome new bishops who were elected in November last year, and work on other topics such as disaffiliations and fighting racism. 122 West Franklin Avenue, Suite 400
    ), the Methodist Theological School in Ohio (known at Methesco) (M.Div. he served a pastorate in Worchester, Massachusetts. Webnurture outreach and witness all persons with vote shall be members of the local church the united methodist church conferences provide the primary groupings of people and

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  • 2007— Senior Pastor, First UMC, Montgomery, AL
  • He traveled to the villages in the mountains and depressed areas with his staff by horseback, motorcycle, walking, pump boat, paddle canoe, and carts pulled by caribou.

    He went on to receive a B.A.
    Governor Richard Riley appointed him to the Joint Legislative Committee on Aging and then to the South Carolina Commission on Aging, which he chaired for five years.
    During her tenure there she served again with the General Board of Discipleship and as President from 1996-2000. ------------------------
    He was the first clergy person from OIMC to graduate from Phillips Theological Seminary, and he was named the Phillips Distinguished Alumni for 2007. Shelton holds a bachelor’s degree in Radio, Television, and Film, the University of Southern MS, Hattiesburg, MS, 1986; a master’s degree in Public Relations, the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, 1990; a Master of Divinity from Duke University Divinity School, 1997; and a Doctor of Ministry from Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA, 2005.
  • Graduated from the Horsens Gymnasium 1980
  • Bishop Francisco earned his Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary and has a second master’s in educational administration from the University of the Philippines.

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    ), Duke Divinity School (B.D. George Bashore was first elected as a delegate to the special session of the General Conference in 1966 and then to successive General Conferences 1968-1980. Court rules on exiting clergy and churches - umnews.org Laura Merrill was elected as a bishop by the South Central Jurisdiction on November 2, 2022. 

    She has served as a director of the General Commission on the Status and Role of Women and as director of the General Board of Global Ministries, including Chairperson of the United Methodist Committee on Relief from 1992-1996. In the Louisiana Annual Conference, he has served as pastor of the following churches: Haven; Peck; First Street and Mount Zion.
    Bishop Ott was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended the following schools:
    Vote delayed again, some United Methodists say they quit. Now Before her election to the episcopacy, Bishop Dease served as pastor and district superintendent in the South Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church and has been involved in numerous denominational and conference boards and committees. He had been Chairman of the Commission on Church Structure of the Philippines Central Conference for the past two quadrennia. SCOTT: Yeah. Ken has served churches in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Bristol, Tennessee, Abingdon, Virginia and Knoxville and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He is a speaker and author of books that focus on the Christian life and stewardship and has co-authored books on church leadership.
    Her first assignment as bishop is to the North Georgia Episcopal Area of The United Methodist Church and she began service in North Georgia on January 1, 2023.
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    Linda Lee was assigned to the Wisconsin Area in 2004, after one quadrennium of service in Michigan.
    degree from Christian Theological Seminary.

    Bishop Jordan is married to Margaret Crawford Jordan, and they have two adult daughters, Diana and Charlie Jordan Brookins.

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    Bishop Rodolfo A. Juan was the resident bishop of the Davao Area, which includes Bicol Philippines,  

    Just before his election to the episcopacy, Khegay was pastor of the Raduga United Methodist Church in Moscow and assistant to the bishop since 2005.

    Bishop Galvan retired officially in 2004 but a year before, he was asked by the Council of Bishops and the GBGM to serve as the Supervising Bishop of the newly created United Methodist Mission in Honduras. In 2009, he began serving as the Executive Secretary of the Council of Bishops, with his office in Washington, DC. Over 1,800 churches left United Methodist Church in 2022. And I am hopeful that, moving forward, we are able to do more interesting things that make the church look a little more like the Kingdom of God.. Woodie and Jennie May "Kim" Tolson While have four daughters: Kimberly Yvette, Hope Angela, Valerie Elizabeth, Sharon Denise; one son, Bryan Michael, and two grandchildren.

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    Bishop David Max Whitfield is a Retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 2000-2012.

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    He was ordained deacon by Bishop Arthur J. Moore and elder by Bishop Marvin A. Franklin.

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    Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. in Psychology, cum laude, from Drew University, Madison, N.J., in 1980. in Business Administration), University of Florida College of Law (J.D. Ntambo finished his six years of elementary school in Kabongo. Reverend Galvan Ortiz graduated from the United Seminary in Mexico City and was ordained Elder in the Methodist Church of Mexico. She is fond of kayaking, traveling, walking new and familiar trails, playing board games and spending time with friends over brunch. He served there for four years while taking his AB degree from Wesleyan University. He was consecrated by Bishop Escrivao A. Zunguze on the 21st of October of that year, in Luanda. He was ordained both deacon and elder by Bishop S. Trowen Nagbe and joined the Liberia Annual Conference.

    From 1988 onwards, he worked for 12 years as leading pastor in the Schweinfurt-Würzburg circuit in north Bavaria, followed by ten years as Superintendent with responsibility for the Reutlingen District. He was ordained both a deacon and an elder by Bishop Kenneth Copeland in the Texas Annual Conference. Individual churches and annual conferences could choose to join the new entity; otherwise, theyll remain in the existing denomination by default.

    He retired from the active episcopacy on September 1, 2004, and served as interim pastor of the Huntington-Cold Spring Harbor Church on Long Island, NY, from November 2004 June 30, 2005

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  • Co-chair ecumenical dialogue between the United Methodist Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland 2010-
  • Unda was the first bishop elected March 18 at the quadrennial meeting in Kamina, Democratic Republic of Congo.

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    During his ministry at City Terrace, he became actively involved in the Mexican American Civil rights Movement in East Los Angeles on behalf of equal education opportunities for the Hispanic youth and in support of the Farm Workers Union.
    degree at Kinshasa.
    . The Carters reside in Charlotte, North Carolina, and consider it a great blessing to serve the people of Western North Carolina.

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    Bishop Ray W. Chamberlain, Jr. is a retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church serving from 1996-2004.

    In 2012, she was assigned to the North Carolina Conference.

    When Roy was eleven years old, after the start of World War II, the family was sent to the Poston Relocation Center.

    Bishop Steiner Ball and her husband, The Rev. He also served as trustee of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (1982-97) and was elected a life trustee in 2000.

    He later transferred to the Southern New Jersey Conference, where he served three pastoral appointments: St. Mary Street Union Parish, Burlington, NJ; The Church of The Good shepherd, Willingboro, NJ; Old Orchards UMC, Cherry Hill, NJ. ), King served churches in Roanoke, Ala., and Richmond, Calif. The church grew, renovated its building, and built a new parsonage. Div. He was assigned to the San Francisco Area in 1988, where he retired August 31, 2000.
    A. degree from Millsaps College, then attended Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he earned an M. Div. He has served as faculty for the Two-Year Academy for Spiritual Formation since 2005, and has taught in various Five-Day Academy sessions in the U.S. and abroad. Previously, Bishop Jung served as president of United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), and as a member of the Board of Directors for the General Board of Discipleship, the UM National Hispanic Plan, the General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns, and the General Commission on United Methodist Men.  

    The United Methodist Church. Senior Pastor, First United Methodist Church, Denton, Texas, 1995-2002
    We do not condone the practice of homosexuality, and consider this practice incompatible with Christian doctrine, Hand wrote at the time. The Western Jurisdiction elected Calvin McConnell to the episcopacy in 1980 and assigned him to the Portland Area.
    Her vocational interests and training include conflict and change management, dismantling racism, women's concerns, sexual ethics issues, and spiritual direction.
    The United Methodist Church lost over 1,800 congregations in 2022, mainly due to the denomination's ongoing schism over homosexuality, according to a recent SCOTT: Well, yes. He brought the good news of justice and redemption.

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    In September 2004, Bishop Hopkins was assigned to the Ohio East Area until retirement in 2016.


    Twice he was the head of the conference delegation. He is assigned to the Southern Zaire Area. In 1992 he was elected to the episcopacy by the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference and assigned to the Mississippi Area where he served until his retirement in 2000.

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    Rev. He has four children: Jane M. Cromley (teacher), Marshall III (physician), James (President, Meadors Construction), and John (attorney). Conference Leadership
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    He shares life with his spouse, Jazelis Adorno, and their children, Fabián, Joel, Marcos, and Valeria. 
    He travels extensively across the conference, preaching in local churches and encouraging lay and clergy leaders. 
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    His son, John, was converted to Christianity by a Methodist Circuit Rider.
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    Dean is an excellent chef while Cynthia is at his side as his sous chef (taking care of clean-up duty!)

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    Upon accepting the call into ordained ministry, he changed his major and graduated with a BA in Philosophy. Cliff was first elected to General and Jurisdictional Conference in 1972 and then to successive General Conferences 1976-92. GURA: Just so that I'm clear, is the church's official stance on homosexuality today ambiguous or is it pretty clearly defined and you'd like to see it changed? He is the Resident Bishop of the Zimbabwe Area, which includes the Zimbabwe East and Zimbabwe West conferences in the Africa Central Conference of The United Methodist Church. 

    Richard Wilke was elected to the episcopacy in 1984 by the South Central Jurisdictional Conference and was assigned to the Arkansas Area. The eldest child is a registered medical technologist (Jyrah Camille); Marx Merel (Grade 11- 16 years old) and Chen Zachary (grade 7- 12 years old).

  • Dothan District Committee on Ministry, Chair, 2000-2006
  • In 1996 he was assigned to preside over the Pacific Northwest Annual Conference.
    She was baptized at First Methodist Church in Vancouver and made her profession of faith as a youth at First United Methodist Church in Bellevue, Washington.
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  • After serving 8 years in the Minnesota area, she was assigned to the Northern Illinois Conference in July 2012. Bishop Schwerin holds a bachelor’s degree from Carroll University (1985), and a Master of Divinity (MDiv.) Before her election as a Bishop, Bishop Haller served in the Michigan area since 1982. Mary Ann and C. P. were married on September 5, 1946, and are the parents of four children: Ann Wheeler, married to Jay Wheeler and residing in San Diego, California; Gregory, a pastor serving in the North Carolina Annual Conference; Patte Martin, married to Thomas N. Martin and living in St. Paul, Minnesota; and Jonathan, a pastor in the North Carolina Annual conference, married to Allana Harper and living in Raleigh, North Carolina. and D.Min. In 2009, Ann married Wayne Simpson.

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    Bishop Dan E. Solomon is a Retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 1988-2000.
    She was chosen to participate in the Academy of Preaching and was the recipient of a Clergy Renewal Grant from the Lilly Endowment in 2000.

    Bishop Matthews is married to Barbara Walker Matthews and they have two children, Jaime S. Matthews and Marci Matthews, and five grandchildren.  

     

    Delegate, South Central Jurisdictional Conference, 2012, 2008, 2004
    He served the church in various capacities from local, District to Conference levels. ), Drew University School of Theology (M.

    She served the communities and the churches of Faith (1978-1984), Church of the Redeemer (1984-1997), and Garfield Memorial (2003-2004). Bishop Taylor has served six times as a delegate to the United Methodist General Conference and to the Jurisdictional Conferences. She has led mission experiences to Jamaica, Kenya and the Philippines.
    During this time he was ordained both deacon and elder by Bishop José Valencia and joined the Philippines Annual Conference.
    General Conference postponed until 2022 - United Methodist News D. Max Whitfield was elected to the episcopacy by the South Central Jurisdiction to the Episcopacy in 2000, and was assigned to the Northwest Texas/New Mexico Area. Sharon Zimmerman Rader was elected to the episcopacy by the North Central Jurisdictional Conference in 1992 and assigned to the Wisconsin Area. With all these efforts, he was able to help increase the membership of the district.

    McKee is the immediate past-president of the South Central Jurisdiction College of Bishops.

    Bishop Williamston was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado and grew up in Topeka Kansas. Bishop Berlin attended Virginia Tech and received a BS in business with a major in public administration.

    Born in Clinton, Louisiana, Talbert was one of seven children of sharecropper parents, Florence George and Nettles. During his active membership in the Council of Bishops he was appointed by the Council to chair the Committee to Develop the National Plan for Hispanic Ministries (1989- 1992) approved by the 1988 General Conference; elected as Chair of the Council of Bishops Program “Hope for the Children of Africa”; and chaired the COB Committee on The Autonomous Methodist Churches whose primary task was strengthening the relationships of the UMC with Autonomous Methodist churches in other parts of the world through the establishing of Covenanting Relationships and presented to General Conference for final approval.
    He reads and writes church history with an emphasis on the contributions of Hispanics to the ecumenical church.  
    From that union, they had three sons and four grandchildren.

    Born on Good Friday in 1958, in the aptly named community of Babylon, N.Y. Bishop Oliveto grew up in her local United Methodist Church, being active in Sunday School and the youth group, believing from an early age that God was calling her into ministry.


    It was while serving there a friend suggested he attend the World Methodist Evangelism Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa.
    Bishop Merrill earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984 from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Angelina Baron del Rosario married Emerito P. Nacpil on April 16, 1956, when he was finishing his theological training at Union Seminary. Benjamin Boni pursued his high school education at Lycee Classique of Abidjan from 1966-1971. Major Challenges Facing The United Methodist Church Blogs, Mobile, MobileArchived / By Teresa Marcus By Joe DiPaolo June 24, 2022 Delegates pause for prayer at The United Methodist Churchs contentious 2019 Special General Conference. His special interest in world missions has led him twice to Haiti as a volunteer in mission, as well as to Russia, Africa, and Argentina.

    Bishop Thomas B. Stockton is a Retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 1988-1996.
    He was elected to the episcopacy at the 9th Africa Central Conference of the Methodist Church in Maputo, Mozambique, on August 17, 2000, and was consecrated bishop of the United Methodist Church on August 20th, 2000. Bishop Harvey also has a passion for young people as they lead the church into a future filled with possibilities.
    She worked to build relationships between churches and clergy in her district and those of the Rio Grande Conference (RGC), which shared many of the same communities. degree in English and Spanish; the M.Div. He served for thirty years in the Maine Annual Conference, including pastorates at Cape Elizabeth, Bangor, Waterville, and Westbrook. He has also previously served on the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, the Commission on General Conference, and the Commission on Theological Education.

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