How is this playing out in countries outside the United States? Prior appointments include: Episcopal Leader of North Texas Conference (Plano, Texas); Superintendent of the Bryan/West District (College Station, Texas); Senior pastor of Spring Woods UMC (Houston, Texas); Senior Pastor of Cypress UMC (Cypress, Texas); Texas Conference Director of Teaching Ministries (Houston, Texas); Senior Associate pastor of Bear Creek UMC (Houston, Texas); Senior Pastor Hanham Methodist Church – Kingwood Circuit (Hanham Bristol, England); Intern pastor – St, Marks UMC (Baytown, Texas); Assistant Pastor of St. Andrews UMC (Ft. Worth, Texas); Pastor of St. Paul UMC/St.

A native of New York City, Woodie White graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in New York. In the spring of 2017, Bishop McAlilly received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Rust College in Holly Springs, MS.

Council of Bishops’ Leadership Teams on Leadership Development and on Leadership Discernment. He was ordained an elder by Bishop Mack B. Stokes. She earned her B.A.

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  • Other honors for Bishop Wilson include the Excellence in Teaching Award for adjunct faculty at Oklahoma City University in 2012, the Dr. John Edwards Memorial Leadership Award in 2016 by the AARP, and “Man of the Year” by the Changing Winds Cultural Society in 2017.
    While a student at Millsaps, he was a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Fraternity and received the Galloway Medal for the best sermon preached by a ministerial student.


    When elected to the episcopacy, Bishop Domingos was serving as General Secretary, Angola Council of Christian Churches.
    In 1972 he was assigned to the League City United Methodist Church in Houston's Space Center, where he spent six years of ministry and built a new sanctuary.

    Malone earned a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and Sociology, with a minor in Computer Science, from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. At the 2000 Jurisdictional Conference, he was assigned to the Houston Area. Bishop Wilson also has served as an adjunct professor at the Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology and has taught in the summer at the Perkins Course of Study Program. She was the chairperson for the Council of Bishops Initiative on Children and Poverty from 2000 until 2004. Bishop Sally Dyck currently serves as the Ecumenical Officer of the Council of Bishops. He had just completed one year as pastor of First Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania when the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference elected him to the episcopacy in 1980.
    Ordained deacon and elder by Bishop Marvin A. Franklin, Joe served parishes located in rural areas, university settings, inner cities, and the suburbs. In a special conference, the requests of 55 United Methodist churches in Oklahoma to sever ties with the denomination were ratified. The 2020 General Conference was set to consider the proposed protocol, which would create a pathway for churches and annual conferences to leave with their properties to form new denominations. ------------------------

    Another church was planted in Solroed south of Copenhagen. While the denominations Book of Discipline has provisions for individual churches wishing to leave the United Methodist Church with their properties, theres nothing within church law that would allow an annual conference one of the United Methodist Churchs 53 regional networks of churches and ministries within the United States to do the same, according to the denominations Judicial Council. She received a B.S. Additional ministerial appointments have included a term as a District Superintendent, local church consultant and Director of the Office of Resourcing in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.
    In 1980 he received the Doctor of Ministry Degree from Vanderbilt Divinity School.

    Bishop Bard has a wife, Julie, three adult children, and two grandchildren. In 1973 Warner was ordained deacon in the Baltimore Annual Conference by Bishop James K. Mathews. --------------------

    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.
    Baptized and called into ministry at the age of 10, Plambeck spent her formative years active in the United Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) of Denison, where she discovered an early passion for justice ministries, story-telling and faith-sharing. Pastor, First United Methodist Church, Joshua, Texas, 1982-87
    He had been Chairman of the Commission on Church Structure of the Philippines Central Conference for the past two quadrennia.  


    Previously, Bishop Ough served as the resident bishop of the Dakotas-Minnesota Area of The United Methodist Church, where he served from September 1, 2012. They have three children: Teresa Carolyn, David William, and Jonathan Carl, one granddaughter, Maria, and three grandsons, Logan, Joseph and Ian. ------------------------


    Susan has also served as a director for the General Board of Global Ministries (1980-1988) and the General Board of Discipleship (1992-1996). Walter Klaiber retired April 2005 as an active bishop of the church, but he still serves as the Chair of the Council of Christian Churches in Germany and as President of the German Bible Society.
     
    Schwerin was appointed as the Assistant to the Bishop in the Wisconsin Conference in 2021.  He was assigned to Río Texas in 2016 after serving twelve years as the bishop of the Missouri Annual Conference. 

    Kenneth Lee Carder was born in Washington County, Tennessee, one of five children of Allen and Edith Carder. Shelton was reared in the Southern Baptist tradition. He served as a trustee of Willamette University, the University of Puget Sound and the Iliff School of Theology.

    She was the Florida Conference’s clergy delegation leader for General Conference 2016. The United Methodist Church announced a proposal Friday to split the denomination over what it called "fundamental differences" regarding its beliefs on same at Drew Theological School.

    Her ecumenical, interfaith, and community engagements provide opportunities to know, walk with, and serve veterans, the homeless, the addicted, children-at-risk, folks doing the arduous work of recovery, and survivors of violence as she seeks to seek, see and serve the least of these (Matthew 25).
    2006-2010 Setting up and organising the Youth Church Karlsruhe as Chair of the Youth Church Group 2001-2010 Chair of the Committee for for New Mission (later: church planting group)

    She currently serves as president of the General Commission on the Status and Role of Women and is a member of the Board of Trustees at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.  As resident bishop, she also serves on the Boards of Trustees at our United Methodist-affiliated colleges, seminaries and organizations in East Ohio.

    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.

    Patrick Ph. In connection with her Episcopal assignment, she currently serves as the President of the Council of Bishops, having served as the Secretary of the Council of Bishops 2014-2018. Bishop Roy Sano is a Retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 1984-2000.

    During his tenure as bishop, Unda has overseen a part of the Congo that has experienced recurring violence since 1998, with millions dead or displaced from their homes.

    She was ordained as an Elder in the New York Conference of The United Methodist Church in 1985.

    Bishop Haupert-Johnson is married to Rev. Being raised in a poor family had been a great factor why he entered in the ministry because of the mission support without realizing that was God’s way of calling him. God is in control.

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    Bishop Susan Morrison is a Retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 1988-2006.
    Charles was ordained deacon in the Oklahoma Conference, but because of schedule difficulties, the ordination was performed by Bishop W. Angie Smith during a session of the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference. He led the General Conference delegation in 1984, 1988 and 1992. In 1995, he became the President of the Council of Bishops to serve a one-year term.
    June 9th,1985, was Schwerin’s first Sunday in the pulpit, after having been appointed as a student pastor to Stephens United Methodist Church in Duncan, Oklahoma. The UMC General Council on Finance and Administration, the denomination's finance agency, also collects data on disaffiliations and church closures. He was an Administrative Assistant to the Bishop in the West Congo Annual Conference.  
    Web2022 (you are here) 2021 2020 2019 2018 Other previous versions. As of September 1, 2021, Bishop Moore-Koikoi also serves as the Interim Bishop of the Harrisburg Episcopal Area. 
    GURA: Kimberly, what's your message to congregations who are thinking about leaving - maybe haven't left yet, but are thinking about it?
    She graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and received a Doctor of Ministry degree from the School of Theology at Claremont.

    2016 Advisory member of the General Conference delegated by the Connectional Table
    He has been awarded honorary degrees by Davis and Elkins College, Centenary College (NJ), West Virginia Wesleyan College, Albright College, and Shenandoah University. He served congregations in Saugus, Mass., Philadelphia, Pa., and West Chester Pa. His hobbies and interests include family, reading, running, photography, and travel.

    . In retirement, Forrest continues to study, to teach, to lecture, and to preach. From 1992-2000 Joel was assigned to the Nebraska Episcopal Area.

    Most of Bishop Jordan's ministry, prior to his election to the episcopacy, was served in the Northern Illinois Conference as a pastor of local churches, a District Superintendent, an Urban Missioner and a Conference Program Staff person.

      In 1996, she was assigned to the Illinois Area.
      From his senior year in high school up to his studies at Wesley Seminary, José was a scholar of Bishop Fred P. Corson of the Philadelphia Area.
      His book, And Are We Yet Alive?

      He was ordained deacon in 1975 and ordained elder in 1979 in the Central Texas Annual Conference, where he served several churches, including 15 years as the senior pastor of First UMC, Hurst.

      He grew up in a parsonage, his father being a Methodist minister. He received degrees from West Virginia Wesleyan (B.A. He joined the Duke Divinity School faculty in 1976 where he served as professor and taught courses in liturgy and homiletics. Carlo went to the University of the Philippines (UP) where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1994. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. He believes in the value of our connectional church and cares deeply about its vitality and unity.
      Min.). More than 2,400 across the nation have done the same.  
      Henriette K’Untu and David K. Yemba were married on August 24, 1969, at Wembo Nyama Mission. ------------------------

      A native of South Carolina, Marshall L. (Jack) Meadors is a graduate of Wofford College (Phi Beta Kappa) and Candler School of Theology, Emory University. In 2004 a group of homileticians published a book that examines Will's preaching, Peculiar Prophet: Will Willimon and the Art of Preaching.
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      He has served on the General Council on Ministries (1996-2000), as Director of the General Board of Global Ministries, and President of the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) (2000-2004), and as Vice-President of the General Council on Finance and Administration (2004-2008). Besides his service in this very diverse Episcopal Area, Patrick Ph.

      From 1996-2001 Neil was president of the North American Section of the World Methodist Council.  Bishop Keaton is serving as a member of the Council of Bishop’s Leadership Team on Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations.

      He was elected bishop by the South Central Jurisdictional Conference in 1992 and was assigned to the Fort Worth Area, where he served for eight years before retirement in September, 2000. Later he did a doctorate (equivalent to Ph.D.) on John William Fletcher.

      She served on the General Council on Ministries (where she chaired the Division on Research, Planning and Futuring); the General Commission on Communications; the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry; and for two years worked for the General Commission on the Status and Role of Women as the developer of a Talent Bank of Women in the United Methodist Church.
      He was a founder of Methodist Patrice Emergy Lumumba University in 1980, which now has five faculties and four colleges (Education, Agriculture, Nursery, Home Economics, Theology, Law and Medicine).
      2010-2016  Member of the Connectional Table
      They have four children: Christine Layman (Mrs. Joseph M.) of Dayton, Virginia; H. Hasbrouck (Brouck) Hughes, III, of Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina; Kathryn Wise (Mrs. Neal E.) of McLean, Virginia; and Laura Saltzer (Mrs. Michael A.) In 1992 he was named by Iliff as its fifth Distinguished Alumnus.
      degree.

      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. This pastorate was followed by a seven-year term as District Superintendent of the Raritan District.
      70 churches to leave in 2022, abruptly halted further disaffiliations in December. She graduated from Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, with a B.A. Her journey in the ministry began when she volunteered as church secretary of Tangos United Methodist Church, the church where she was baptized and nurtured and finally heeded the call to the ordained ministry in 1987.  In 1993, she was ordained Deacon and in 1994, obtained her Master of Divinity with high honors from the Union Theological Seminary in Cavite.  She was admitted as Full Member and ordained Elder of the Philippines Annual Conference in 1995.
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      In 1997, he became the President of the Council of Bishops to serve a one-year term.
      We will continue to work at being an affirming and inclusive community for all, the church said in a statement. He received a Bachelor of Theology from Union Theological Seminary in the Philippines and a B.A. In addition, he will serve on the Just Peace Board of Directors for this quadrennium, and as Chair of the Quadrennial Orientation for New Bishops Committee.

    Bishop Schol has assisted church leaders in developing and implementing a strategic plan to create vital congregations. Task Force on Lay Academy
    She has also served as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Pacific School of Religion and has been an adjunct professor of United Methodist Studies at the school from 2004 to 2016.
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    and Asbury Theological Seminary (D. His interests include movies, reading, jogging, and playing with his grandchildren. 

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    William T. (Bill) McAlilly is the bishop of the Nashville Episcopal Area of the United Methodist Church. Mary Ann McDonald married Jeff Swenson on August 31, 1968. Subsequently, he began two years as Urban Missioner for the conference's work in Metropolitan Detroit.

  • 2008-2012 Ecumenical Officer for the Council of Bishops


  • Harold Hasbrouck Hughes, Jr., was born in Richmond, Virginia, son of Harold H. Hughes, Sr., and Mildred Powers Hughes.
    Bishop Dottie authored several books on the subject of church vitalization and transformation: ------------------------

    An open meeting means anyone may attend. ------------------------

    A password reset link will be e-mailed to you. WebIn 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 He is also president of the College of Bishops of the Philippines Central Conference.

    He did his Librarianship studies at Protestant University of Central Africa / Yaoundé (Cameroon), and received a Ph.D. in Theology from UPAC Yaoundé / Neuchâtel (Switzerland).

    Judy died in August of 1991.

    Malone was elected to represent the Northern Illinois Conference as a delegate at General/Jurisdictional Conferences in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016.  She was chairperson of the delegation in 2012 and served as chairperson of the Agenda and Calendar Committee in 2016.

     He served on the UMC Commission on a Way Forward.  He is a frequent teacher and speaker at churches, conferences, and seminaries. A native of Texas, Bishop Schnase is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. After serving in the Illinois Area for four years, he was assigned to the West Ohio Annual Conference in July 2012.

    She became the assistant to Bishop David Lawson in January, 1986.
    Schnase lives in San Antonio with his wife, Esther. The Olsens have three grandchildren: Nicolai, Hannah and Natascha.

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    He was elected and consecrated a bishop by the same jurisdiction in 2008 and served eight years as the resident bishop of the Iowa Conference of The United Methodist before his current assignment to Indiana.
    The mass exodus in Texas significantly exacerbates ongoing issues for the UMC: Since 2019, when UMC delegates approved initial disaffiliation plans, more than 1,300 of the UMCs 30,500 American churches have voted to leave, and the denomination is bracing for massive spending cuts and 30-year budget lows, the denominations news service reported earlier this year.

    A lover of books, music, and movies, Bishop McAlilly also enjoys golf. Education and Ordination
    2022 Maryland Statutes Corporations and Associations Title 5 - Special Types of Corporations Subtitle 3 - Religious Corporations Part III - United Methodist Church. The pastor is the administrative officer of the church and, therefore, is an ex officio member of most committees of the local church. South Central Jurisdiction representative, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry Task Force on residency during provisional membership, 1996-2000
    in Business Administration), University of Florida College of Law (J.D.

    He was born in Hobbs, New Mexico, a small oilfield town in the southeastern corner of the state.  
    He was the first clergy person from OIMC to graduate from Phillips Theological Seminary, and he was named the Phillips Distinguished Alumni for 2007. They have four children: Rahel Esther, Corinne Simone, Manuel Andreas and Myriam Ruth.

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    James Edward Swanson Sr., elected to the episcopacy in 2004, was the resident bishop of the Mississippi Conference of The United Methodist Church. 

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