And now theyre wonderful young adults., The Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN), a group of United Methodist congregations and individuals supporting the inclusion of LGBTQ United Methodists,expressed its supportfor Davidson and Swaim-Presley, as well as the Cafieros, issuing a statement: RMN honors Gods calling, the work of the Holy Spirit, and the pastoral ministry shown by Rev. He received degrees from Southern Methodist University, where he was president of the student body and Phi Beta Kappa; Yale Divinity School, receiving the senior preaching award; and Dubuque Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa, summa cum laude. Leslie is a licensed social worker and is totally blind. Superintendency

While attending Highschool the District Superintendent assigned him to serve as lay pastor to a circuit that included two congregations in the towns of Tecali and San Pablo Actipan, near Puebla city, and later to another rural circuit comprised of the congregations of San Pedro del Rincon and El Carrisal near Mexico City.
Before going onto the ministry, Bob Fannin was part of the J.C. Penny management training program, served in the U.S. Army, and became a representative for the Burroughs Computer Corporation.

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He was graduated with honors from East Tennessee State University and Wesley Theological Seminary.
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For the 2017-2020 quadrennium, Bishop McAlilly currently serves on the Connectional Table as president on the Board of Directors for the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM).

Bishop Moore-Koikoi says she sees the work of bishops as “overseeing the work of the church, working prophetically, evangelically and apostolically with all as they cooperate with the Grace of God.” A key component of that, she believes, is leaving space for the transforming movement of the Holy Spirit, especially at times when the denomination is divided and many people wonder what the future holds. During the years at Vienna a Larger Parish was developed under Bill's direction that encompassed a two-county area and included 26 churches.

He is a sports enthusiast, loves camping, a hacker golfer, and plays a little guitar.
There's so much need for people to feel loved and people to feel welcomed and for people to just, quite frankly, have community. A few months after returning to his responsibilities at the Gbarnga School of Theology, the Liberia Central Conference elected Arthur Flumo Kulah to the episcopacy in 1980.

Dick was first elected a delegate to the General Conference in 1988 and then to successive General Conferences, 1992-2004. From 1984-88 he served on the Board of Directors of the General Board of Discipleship.
He was pastor of Epworth Chapel UMC in Baltimore, from 1982 to 1986, when, during his pastorate, Epworth received 272 new members.

 
On June 12, 1965, Dick married Eileen Willis. His book, And Are We Yet Alive? He heard a call to ministry when he was seventeen at the Concord UMC, a few miles from where a Methodist circuit-rider in his family cast a shadow with his witness a lifetime before him.
Heinrich Bolleter, the son of a businessman, was born and raised in the suburbs of Zurich, Switzerland.

Chaired Alabama-West Florida Conference Council on Ministries, 1996-98

degree (magna cum laude) and studied a year at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio. He has received honorary doctorates from Bethune-Cookman College and Florida Southern College.
Streiff were married. He went on to receive his theological education at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, and at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. In 2006, she became the President of the Council of Bishops to serve a two-year term. 

Susan Hassinger was elected to the episcopacy in July, 1996, by the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference, and from 1996 until 2004 she served as Episcopal leader of the Boston Area.
He says that his style of Episcopal leadership is based on the theology of the ministry of presence; that is, being with the people to make them disciples for Jesus Christ to make a difference in the world.

Prior to her appointment to First UMC, she served six years as district superintendent of the Grand Rapids District in the West Michigan Conference, where she led a campaign to raise $500,000 plus a $500,000 matching gift to build the 24-room Ubuntu Retreat Center at Africa University in Zimbabwe. He was ordained as a United Methodist elder in 2001.

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Plambeck’s daughter Meghan attends Georgetown Law Center in Washington, DC. He retired in May 2006.

After a brief stint working as a scriptwriter, anchor and voice-over talent for a local TV station and serving on staff managing databases for Bishop Daniel C. Arichea, Carlo answered the call. She left the church for seven years and came back to be its first Black, female, openly gay pastor, and she joins us now from Phoenix. Susan has served as pastor of local churches in Fleetwood, Springfield, and Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania. His tenure in the Mississippi Conference began Sept. 1, 2012, with his first public appearance one day earlier to the conference’s Seashore District. He went there to be with those affected by Hurricane Isaac. The hurricane made landfall on August 28, 2012, causing additional devastation to Mississippi coastal communities recovering from Hurricane Katrina seven years earlier.

 
He served as Youth Director of the District of Quela.

Francisco and his wife, Restetita Victoria, have three children and three grandchildren.

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Bishop Elias Galvan is a retired bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 1984-2004.

Neil was the preacher at baccalaureate services at Davis and Elkins, West Virginia Wesleyan, Lycoming, Albright, and Centenary Colleges, and Shenandoah University: opening convocation speaker for LaGrange College and Drew University School of Theology; speaker at the inauguration of the president of United Theological Seminary.
She has led Disciple Bible study groups, retreats and taught in Schools of Mission.

Their older daughter is Amy, who is married to Eric Bradley. Bishop Trimble’s mission statement is “to encourage all people with the love of Jesus Christ to rise to their highest potential” or “Be Encouraged” for short.
His mother, Francisca Brou, still alive, was among the first entering class of the Methodist Girls’ School in Dabou (Côte d’Ivoire) in the early 1930s. -----------------------

Julia Kitchens married Richard Byrd Wilke on June 20, 1953. At least not yet. Bishop Carter and his wife Pam have been married for forty-two years.  Pam has served as an ordained elder in The United Methodist Church, most recently in disaster recovery, and she has a deep involvement in God’s mission in Haiti.  They are blessed with two adult daughters.  Liz is married to Yoonie and is a professor of Chinese at Vassar College, and Abby is chief officer for Communications and Marketing at the University of Tennessee Southern.  Abby and her husband Allen are parents of Paige and Natalie, the bishop’s granddaughters.
WebDuring Reconstruction the Methodists took the lead in helping form Methodist churches for Freedmen, and moving into Southern cities even to the point of taking control, with Army help, of buildings that had belonged to the southern branch of the church. Min.

He was born in Birsfelden near Basel (Switzerland). She earned her B.A. She became the face of the United Methodist Church, and church volunteers in red T-shirts were visible walking through neighborhoods, praying for and ministering to people.

In June of 1986, he was appointed District Superintendent of the Miami District and in June of 1991, to First United Methodist Church, Lakeland.
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He served on the Vision Table, Program and Arrangements Committee, Board of Directors of the Multi-Ethnic Center for Ministry, and the Korean-American Mission of the Northeastern Jurisdiction (NEJ).

Alabama-West Florida Conference Board of Ministry, 1980-88; 2000-2012

Peggy met her husband, Michael C. Johnson, at the seminary and they graduated together.

Pulpit exchanges have been enjoyed in England and Australia and work missions shared in Peru, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
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Member, Southeastern Jurisdiction Episcopacy Committee

Prior to his election to the episcopacy, he was a delegate to four General Conferences of the United Methodist Church and five North Central Jurisdictional Conferences.

Bishop Ough is past president of the Ohio Council of Churches and has been involved with the Minnesota Council of Churches during his years in the Dakotas- Minnesota Area.
Hundreds more are expected to similarly depart in the coming months after getting final approval from church leaders and join the Global Methodist Church, which would follow the same beliefs more conservatively.  

Kentucky Conference Board of Ministries Methodist Home Board chair

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He married Karen Goodman Mueller in 2016.  
Max met Valerie Vaughn and they were married on June 18, 1993, and they incorporated their children into one family.
Bishop Galvan’s mother received her formal education at the Instituto Sara Alarcon, a Methodist school in Mexico City.
He was elected to five General Conferences and chaired his conference delegation twice. Since nearly all meetings of the local church are open, anyone attending the meetings has voice. He was appointed to preside over the Annual Conference of West Angola at the same time.

His area covers eleven countries in Europe (Albania, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Switzerland) and two countries in North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia).

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Leeland was elected as a delegate to Jurisdictional Conference beginning in 1988 and consecutive years through 2008. An ordained minister in the Kansas West Conference of The United Methodist Church, Bruce graduated from Wichita East High School: from Friends University, Wichita; and cum laude, from Drew University School of Theology, Madison, New Jersey.

His contagious spirit of hospitality, a determination to excel at being “the you” God created each person to be and spirited preaching has helped bring life, laughter and light to congregations in the Mississippi Conference and beyond. He continues to emphasize that winning people to Christ requires risk-taking love, and crossing old boundaries to discover where the Holy Spirit is at work. They have five grandchildren.
His home churches were the Lakeview United Methodist and Oakville Baptist churches. Episcopacy
She also received a Master of Music degree in organ performance from the Yale University Institute of Sacred Music and School of Music, and a Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School. You know, it's interesting because from my experiences in some of the African countries, in particular Kenya, they are - for the most part, they are wanting to stay with the United Methodist Church. He participated in preaching missions in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil.

Bishop Fairley graduated from Pfeiffer College and Duke University's School of Divinity.

2004-2008 Executive Secretary for the Connectional Table.

The Jung’s are the parents of two adult sons, Jae-Hugh and Jae-Joon, who is married to Brittney.

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Bishop Benjamin A. Justo is a retired bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 2000-2008. 
 

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He was a delegate to General Conference from 1968-80, and was a member of the Social Principles Commission, 1968-72. Are there women bishops in the United Methodist Church? His passion is community organizing. He was assigned to the newly-created South Georgia Area, where he served until his retirement in 2000.
He was Assistant to the Bishop at the time of his election to the episcopacy.
Having graduated school in Birsfelden and Muttenz, he studied at the Theological Seminary of the United Methodist Church in Reutlingen (Germany) and at the University of Bern (Switzerland). Bishop Walter Klaiber is a retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 1989-2005.

From 2014 to 2016, Bishop Brown was the President of the Council of Bishops.
Bishop Saenz has been married to Maye since 1981.
He became a Probationary member of the Southern California-Arizona Annual Conference and was ordained Deacon and later Elder by Bishop Gerald Kennedy and received into full membership in 1969. Her great-grandmother, Tameena Attaya, an immigrant from Lebanon, discovered Methodism upon her arrival in the U.S. in the early twentieth century.

She has served as a youth director, Christian educator, pastor, Director of Connectional Ministries and district superintendent in the NC Conference.

He attended the University of Oklahoma where he began as an accounting major.

Malone earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. 

He has written extensively for denominational and ecumenical periodicals and is coauthor of Racial Transition in the Church, Confessions of a Prairie Pilgrim, and Conversations of the Heart.
During this time he was also Chairman of the Board of Ordained Ministry of the Middle Philippines Annual Conference.
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From April 2 - December 31, 2022, Bishop Kiesey was assigned as interim bishop to the Iowa Area and Dakotas-Minnesota Area (supervising the Dakotas Annual Conference).
He is the Resident Bishop of the Liberia Area, which includes the Liberia Conference in the West Africa Central Conference of The United Methodist Church.
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She graduated summa cum laude in 2004 with a Master of Divinity from Boston University School of Theology.

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Alfred L. Norris, Sr. was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana. He also served as trustee of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (1982-97) and was elected a life trustee in 2000.

Bishop Schnase chairs the board of directors of Wespath (formerly known as the United Methodist Board of Pensions).

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.  Bishop Hopkins enjoys exercise, technology, kite flying, music, and guitar jams

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Bishop Robert Tsugio Hoshibata was elected to the episcopacy in 2004. In 2012, she was assigned to the North Carolina Conference.

Under Bishop Harvey’s leadership, the Louisiana Annual Conference follows a mission and vision focus to lead others to an abundant life in Christ; engage in the community; learn, live, and tell the gospel story; and reach out and draw-in people from all walks of life resulting in vibrant, alive, and vital congregations. Now churches and annual conferences potentially will challenge the denominations trust clause, which maintains that the denomination not the churches or their conferences own church properties, he said. He has ten grandchildren. Dean is a financial advisor and owns his own firm. He served the Birmingham, Alabama area.
Son Scott was born in 1971 and died in 1999 of a brain tumor. Please click here to learn how. She did her undergraduate work at the University of Texas at Pan American, and then earned her Master of Theology at Perkins School of Theology.
She has been active in justice issues, serving as a member of Black Methodists for Church Renewal and on the board of Justice for Our Neighbors.
The newly elected Bishop has been assigned to The Illinois Great Rivers Conference effective September 1, 2016.
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President General Commission on the Status and Role of Women, 2012-2016

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 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.
In retirement, he serves as Bishop-In-Residence, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk/Virginia Beach, VA.

In 2013, she received a Doctor of Ministry in Church Leadership Excellence from Wesley Theological Seminary, in Washington, D.C. She was commissioned an elder by Bishop Gregory Vaughn Palmer and ordained an elder by Bishop Charles Wesley Jordan, while Bishop Palmer took time away to attend his son’s graduation.

Garrett Theological Seminary (now Garrett Evangelical) (B.D./M.Div.

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Bishop Kainda Katembo is a retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 1980-2016.
Bob is a retired United Methodist pastoral counselor. from Union Theological Seminary, in New York City, an M. Th. Church Education and Ordination

in Psychology. Margaret Lee married Benjamin Michael Watson on June 16, 1973, at First United Methodist Church, Dothan.  
We are a broken body, Presiding Bishop James G. Nunn said as he explained to his hundreds of congregants how the communion bread represented both the broken body of Jesus Christ but also the tension within the faith.

Quire has served as pastor of Jasper Grant United Methodist, Ebenezer United Methodist Church in Monrovia and was director of the Bishop Judith Craig Children’s Village.

Bishop McAlilly has a pastor’s heart with a vision for the reign of God.

He previously served the Davao Episcopal Area after his election to the episcopacy in 2012.
Those who are not members of the committee attend solely as observers. Plambeck also worked with laity in developing and designing a recovery ministry that continues to have regional impact. John's firstborn, John Wesley Solomon, became the first Methodist preacher in a subsequent line of nine Methodist preachers.

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.