Bishop Plambeck was born and raised in Denison, Iowa.
Bishop Matthews was born in Florence, South Carolina. Susan and Neil make their home in Mechanicsburg, PA.
,Bishop S. Clifton Ives is a retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 1992-2004.
He was the Episcopal representative on the North Central Jurisdiction Commission on Religion and Race, 1992-2000. Before 2004, Suda served for eight years as the district superintendent for the Ontario District of the North Central New York Annual Conference.
She has served as a speaker for numerous schools, retreats, and conferences, and is a two-time delegate to General Conference. Bishop Dottie has pastored six churches: Liberty UMC, Mission Bell UMC, Community Church of Joy (ELCA), CrossRoads UMC, Catalina UMC, and Paradise Valley UMC.
In the 1996 quadrennium, he chaired the General Board of Global Ministries. Dr. David M. Wilson has served as resident bishop of the Great Plains Conference of The United Methodist Church since January 1, 2023. Bishop Acdal holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, a Master of Divinity (MDiv) from Wesley Divinity School, Wesleyan University-Philippines, and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Education major in Education Management from Cagayan State University, Tuguegarao City. He also finished the Haggai Institute Advanced Leadership Training in Maui, Hawaii way back 2015. Talbert married Marilyn W. Magee April 1, 2000.
Charlene was married to Leigh Kammerer on August 29, 1970. He also served as Superintendent of the Houston Southwest District and Conference Treasurer of the Texas Annual Conference (2001-2004). Bishop Dottie grew up as a daughter of Lutheran missionaries, living on the border of Arizona and Mexico. She was appointed to serve as the pastor of Independence UMC in Independence Kansas from 2010-2014. Prior to that, he was an Associate Council Director in Northern Illinois.
In 1988, he was elected to the episcopacy by the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference and was assigned to the Florida Area where he served until retirement in 1996.
The Board honored Bishop Lee in 1999 with the establishment of the Clay F. Lee award to be given annually to an individual who has given meritorious service to pension work within the denomination. He is a sports enthusiast, loves camping, a hacker golfer, and plays a little guitar.
There are eight grandchildren, 4 boys and 4 girls.
Bishop Linda Lee is a retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 2000-2012.
Bishop Galvan’s mother received her formal education at the Instituto Sara Alarcon, a Methodist school in Mexico City.
The purpose of the conference was to receive requests and ratify disaffiliation for 249 churches. He was assigned to the Phoenix episcopal area.
Bishop Onema was born in Utuhi, Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo. Nordic Perspectives on Methodism 1 'What is Methodist Identity Today' (2015). Bishop Jung taught and chaired the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Kangnam University in South Korea. Bishop Graves' and Nancy’s son, Gregg, lives and works in the Chattanooga area.
He was ordained deacon in the United Methodist Church in 1979 and ordained elder in 1982. He has received several honorary degrees, and alumni awards from Bethany College, Drew University and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He was ordained deacon and elder in the North Indiana Conference.
He served congregations in Eureka Springs, St. Paul's Parish in Harrison, Cherry Valley-Vanndale change, First UMC, Bella Vista, First UMC, Russellville, and First UMC, Springdale before being appointed District Superintendent in the North Arkansas Conference.Bishop Schwerin is married to his wife, Julie. Joshua 24:15 has been their family verse, “As for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.”
Lawrence McCleskey was elected to the episcopacy in July 1996 and assigned to the Columbia Area (South Carolina Conference). Benjamin Michael Watson was elected to the episcopacy by the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference in 2000 and was assigned to the South Georgia Area. He chaired the National Missional Priority Coordinating Committee in 1984-88. He served the Connectional Table as the President of the Commission on Archives and History.
In 1982 he was appointed Senior Pastor of First United Methodist Church, Blue Springs.
------------------------ Bishop Soriano's wife, Dania Aben Soriano, passed on November 1, 2021. During his ministry and after his leaving the United Methodist ministry in the Frankford community rehabilitated or built more than 200 housing units and served more than 20,000 people a year.
More than 2,400 across the nation have done the same. He now serves as Bishop in Residence at High Point University.
Delegate, South Central Jurisdictional Conference, 2012, 2008, 2004, 2000, 1996 (alternate)
He was re-elected to the post following his service for 2012-2016. In February 2005, she was elected bishop at the Germany Central Conference in Wuppertal - the first woman elected to the United Methodist episcopacy outside of the United States.
Following her time in Chile and Tucson, she attended Candler School of Theology at Emory University and in 1995 earned the Master of Divinity degree.
Joel served as district superintendent in the Rio Grande Conference and as President of the Greater Dallas Community of Churches.
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He attended Paine College in Augusta, Georgia.
On March 12, 2004, he was elected Bishop of the newly established Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church in Côte d’Ivoire. He was elected bishop on June 20, 1986, by the adjourned session of the Twelfth Session of the Philippines Central Conference in Knox Memorial United Methodist Church, Manila, on the birthday of his wife, Edita Gamboa.
During his ministry, Bishop Matthews served on the General Commission on Religion and Race, the General Board of Global Ministries, Connection Process Team, the General Council on Ministries, Africa University Development Committee, World Methodist Council Executive Committee, and the Board of the Northeastern Jurisdiction Multi-Ethnic Center for Ministry. 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. Bishop Wilson, a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, holds the distinction of being the first Native American elected to serve as a bishop in the history of The United Methodist Church.
José and Guadalupe Castro Gamboa. Subsequently, he transferred to the Oregon-Idaho Conference, serving as University Chaplain and Assistant Professor of Religion at Willamette University, before returning to his home conference and serving churches in Denver, Boulder, and Colorado Springs. Tom is married to Karen, and they have four daughters. He also served a second two-year term as secretary of the Council of Bishops.
Do Not Be Afraid (2015) “Moving into new Territory”, Religionsfriheden er truet i Danmark, feature in The Christian Daily, May 2008.
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. He served as clergy delegate to General Conference in 1996, 2000 and 2004 and was consultant for theological education and for the Advisory Committee to the Bishops in Cambodia.
Bishop Michael McKee was elected to the episcopacy in 2012 and served as the resident bishop of the Dallas Area, which includes the North Texas Conference in the South Central Jurisdiction of The United Methodist Church.
In 1986 he was appointed Pastor of Union United Methodist Church, Belleville, Illinois, from which he was elected to the episcopacy by the North Central Jurisdictional Conference in 1988. 2000-2010 Member of the Delegates Assembly of ACK Baden-Württemberg
Bishop Hope Morgan Ward is a Retired Bishop in The United Methodist Church. She was elected to the episcopacy in 2004 by the Southeastern Jurisdiction and retired in 2021, where she was the Resident Bishop of the North Carolina Conference - Raleigh Area in the Southeastern Jurisdiction of The United Methodist Church.
He opened two congregations in Nairobi. Div.) But when the General Conference was pushed back to 2024 by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Global Methodist Church pushed up its timeline. He is also president of the College of Bishops of the Philippines Central Conference.
Bishop Steiner Ball was a first elected delegate to the 2008 and 2012 General Conferences of The United Methodist Church and to the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conferences (NEJ). Prior to election, Sandra served the general church in a variety of areas, including the Interjurisdictional Episcopacy Committee, the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, the United Methodist Endorsing Agency, and the Jurisdictional Committee on Episcopacy.
Bishop Palmer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served the Council as Retiree Correspondent 2008-2012. She has visited churches and shared in mission in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Korea, Brazil, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Finland, Nicaragua, Estonia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
While attending Cuttington College and Divinity School, Arthur was also Pastor of First Church in Suakoko. 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)
Bishop Larry Goodpaster is a retired bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 2000-2016.
Prior to her election to the episcopacy, Plambeck served as the Assistant to the Bishop and Director of Clergy & Leadership Excellence in the Iowa Conference. Meghan Mosley. She also served as Dean of the NEJ School of Evangelism 1998-99.
Bishop Ough was elected as a delegate to numerous General and North Central Jurisdiction Conferences and has served as a member of several jurisdictional and general church agencies. Matthews was appointed District Superintendent of the Baltimore East District and in 1991 was appointed Conference Council Director, a position he held until being appointed Washington West District Superintendent in 1999.
