Matthews was elected as a bishop of The United Methodist Church on July 14, 2004, by the Northeastern Jurisdiction on the first ballot.  He was assigned to serve the Philadelphia Episcopal Area (Eastern Pennsylvania Conference and Peninsula-Delaware Conference).
He received the Doctor of Ministry Degree from United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio, in 1973.  Both McMurry University and Perkins School of Theology have recognized him as a “Distinguished Alumnus.”

Published in Daily Hampshire Gazette on Oct. 31, 2022.
Charles was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from McMurry University, Abilene, Texas, in 1996.
The area defined by this conference encompasses the provinces of Maniema and North and South Kivu to the east — bordering Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda — and Oriental and Equateur across the northern part of the country — which borders South Sudan and the Central African Republic.

Although she was baptized and confirmed as a Catholic her father's religion, Nhanala also attended her mother's Methodist church. He held a number of leadership positions on conference and church organizations during these years.
Previously, she served as bishop of the Texas Annual Conference and the Arkansas Conference.

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.

He wrote, directed and produced 40 or so films from 1919 to 1948, many of which addressed issues of race.

Benjamin A. Justo was elected to the episcopacy from the Northeast Philippines Annual Conference on the 7th Ballot, Dec. 16, 2000, during the 2000 PCC Session.  

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Ken Ehrman and Sally Dyck met in Boston and were married on May 15, 1976.

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Bishop LaTrelle Easterling is the episcopal servant and leader of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, the oldest and most diverse annual conference in The United Methodist Church. She is the first woman to lead this historic conference.

Bishop Warner H. Brown is a retired bishop of The United Methodist Church, serving from 2000 to 2016.  He is currently serving as an interim bishop of the Sierra Leone Episcopal Area in the West Africa Central Conference. She was ordained deacon (1988) by Bishop F. Herbert Skeete and elder (1990) by Bishop Susan M. Morrison.
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He also directed the mobile medical-dental clinic. During those 20 years, she served on the General Council on Ministries and the General Board of Church and Society. She is the first woman to be senior pastor at Glide, the fifth largest United Methodist congregation in the U.S. She is the first woman to serve as senior pastor in one of the denominations 100 largest U.S. congregations.

A. degree from Millsaps College, then attended Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he earned an M. Div. He chaired the National Plan for Hispanic Ministries National Committee (1992-2000).
During this time she established a retail/manufacturing knitting machine business in Pasadena.

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Early life Linda Miller and Ken Carder were married June 30, 1961. He is a member of the F. and A.M. Cabanatuan City Lodge No.

After returning to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Fama Onema was ordained elder by Bishop John Wesley Shungu, joined the Central Congo Annual Conference and served as Pastor Youth Director as well as statistician for the Africa Central Conference. He was active in the field of Interdenominational Concerns since 1972 and served as a delegate to the National Council of Churches in Switzerland. He again went to the United States to receive both an M.Div. Associate Minister, Richland Hills United Methodist Church, 1973-76

On September 1, 2004, she became the first woman to serve as Resident Bishop of the Columbia Area (South Carolina Annual Conference) in the United Methodist Church. Meet Ron and Casey DeSantis: America's new First Family? While still in college, he heard and responded to God's call to enter ordained ministry.

Woodrow Hearn was ordained deacon by Bishop John Wesley Lord and elder by Bishop Paul E. Martin. He retired on August 31, 1996.
In 2009, he began serving as the Executive Secretary of the Council of Bishops, with his office in Washington, DC. degree from the theological seminary of the Basel Mission and joined the Switzerland Annual Conference.

Bishop Trimble married First Lady Racelder Grandberry-Trimble, a professional counselor and graduate of Methodist Theological School in Ohio, in May 1978.
Born in Turners Falls section of Montague on September 6, 1953, she was the daughter of the late Lionel and Irene (Gagne) Chagnon.

Bishop Beard is a gifted preacher and teacher.  He has a passion for Jesus Christ that is contagious.  His primary focus is encouraging churches to be “on fire for Jesus.”  His life quote is, “I want to be so full of Jesus that when a mosquito bites me it will fly away humming ‘there is power in the blood!”

Richard Young, a five-star running back from Lehigh Acres, Florida, has released a list of his top three schools.

Lunge is married to Julianne Dembo, and they have seven children.

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Bishop Ernest Lyght is a retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 1996-2012.
The Holy Boldness started an urban training and congregational development movement.
majoring in Philosophy and Sociology.
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He was appointed District Superintendent in 1986 and became pastor of Central United Methodist Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1989. Throughout her ministry she has had the privilege of serving on a wide range of committees and boards, including the Board of Trustees for Iowa Wesleyan College, Morningside College and Dakota Wesleyan University. Bishop Hans Växby is a Retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 1989-2012.
She is married to the Reverend Charles E. Logsdon Christopher. ------------------------

Richard Carl Looney was born in the Methodist parsonage at Hillsville, Virginia. 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.

Charles Wesley Jordan was elected to the episcopacy in1992 by the North Central Jurisdictional Conference. ------------------------

He has been active in Rotary International and has traveled extensively. From 2010 to 2017 he was leading pastor in the Erlöserkirche circuit in Reutlingen. Born September 7th, 1947 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington D.C Read More, Effie Pearl Greer Penley's passing on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 has been publicly announced by Boone Family Funeral Home Inc in West Jefferson Read More, Jeffrey Darryl Rumple, Sr., 77, of Mooresville, NC, passed away on September 24, 2022. During his tenure there, the congregation grew from 575 members to nearly 1,400. On February 16, 1974, Elizabeth (Lisa) Hyeja and Jeremiah were married.

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.
 They have three sons and seven grandchildren. We are forever grateful Read More, Maryann Kovach, age 85, of Kennedy Township, PA passed away peacefully on November 6, 2022. Gary Haller, senior pastor at First United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Michigan. Ordained deacon and elder by Bishop Paul E. Martin, Joel held membership in the Rio Grande Conference until his election to the episcopacy in 1992.

Alfred Johnson was elected to the episcopacy in July, 1996, and assigned the New Jersey Area. Bishop Keaton also served two churches: Broadway UMC in Rockford, Ill. and St. Luke UMC in Chicago, Ill. Bishop Keaton was elected to three General Conference delegations with the Northern Illinois Conference.


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Bishop Katembo was ordained both deacon and elder by Bishop John Wesley Shungu and became a member of the Southern Zaire Annual Conference. In the denomination, he has served on the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, the Committee on Faith and Order, the Ministry Study Commission, the University Senate, and the National Plan for Hispanic/Latino Ministry. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity from McMurry University in 1987 and from Centenary College in 2003.

review: Trouble brewing as Matt Hancock makes jungle debut. Bishop Shamana continued to teach and create gourd art in response to Christ’s call to active stewardship using all that we have been given. He served as pastor in Esbjerg-Varde from 1984. She has served as a director of the General Board of Discipleship and General Board of Global Ministries, where she also was the Chair of the Committee to Eliminate Institutional Racism and the Committee on Personnel and Nominations. Bishop Robert Hitchcock Spain is a Retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served  from  1988-1992.

“Women suffered the most during my area’s civil war and the center would equip them with training to improve their lives. When you heal a woman, you heal children and the nation too,” Unda said.

Following a year of graduate study at Drew, Bill returned to the Southern Illinois Conference and was appointed to the Vienna Methodist Church.
Beloved husband of the late Jean (Schuster) Weiland.  He earned a Master of Theology with a specialty in Family Education. 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.
Al was ordained elder by Bishop Roy Short. Other books include: Signs and Wonders; Tell Me Again, I'm Listening; Our Father and The Pastor and Marriage Group Counseling.

Abernathy High School, 1975
Elaine maintains strong ecumenical and interfaith commitments, including the Renton Ecumenical Association of Churches, the Washington Association of Churches, the Seattle Holocaust Conference, the Consultation on Church Union, and the World Council of Churches. Milan has lived in Harrisburg, Latrobe and Tarentum. She served on the Conference Strategic Leadership Team and the Conference Board of Pension and Health Benefits.

Bruce is married to Charlene Ough; they are the parents of three sons and seven grandchildren.

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Bishop Gregory V. Palmer was elected to the episcopacy in 2000. A gender-bending blues performer who became 1920s Harlem royalty. He was elected to the episcopacy in 2016. 
He served as local pastor, then was ordained deacon and elder by Bishop José L. Valencia. Returning home in 2000, the Stiths served an interim pastorate of one and a half years at Gibbons Resurrection United Methodist Church, Brandywine, MD.
Mark is married to Laura Fernandez Hutchinson and they have one child, Madison Ann.

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Bishop John G. Innis is a retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 2000-2016.
J. Woodrow Hearn was a retired bishop in The United Methodist Church.
John grew up near Salem, Ohio within a family of strong Read More, ROBERTA MACDONALD Florence, MA Roberta "Bobbie" MacDonald, 88, of Florence, our beautiful mother, passed away peacefully in her home on October 25, 2022.

Juan is vice–chair of the Clergy of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines. His father was the pastor of McKinley M.E. Alfred W. Gwinn, Jr. was born in Ironton, Ohio. General Conference delegate in 2012 and 2016
Talbert was Ecumenical Officer for the Council of Bishops 2000-04, and served as Interim Executive Director of Black Methodists for Church Renewal, Inc.

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Bishop Mary Virginia Taylor 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 for the Holston Conference. 
He then moved to Tyler to pastor Asbury United Methodist where he led the congregation in the building of a new sanctuary.

Bishop Hopkins was instrumental in the formation of Operation Classroom in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Joseph Humper was serving as Conference Council Director when he was elected to the episcopacy on August 14, 1992, by the West Africa Central Conference. He served as President of the Council of Bishops from 2008-2010.

Bishop Marshall Meadors is a Retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 1992-2000.
 Benjamin Boni is married to Berthe Ngbesso Odombo.  They have six children (five girls and a boy).
Growing up in a preacher’s family, when she was in elementary school, her father served a rural hilltop church.

Bishop Thomas B. Stockton is a Retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 1988-1996.
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Nina Mae McKinney in Hallelujah! produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in 1929. In 2002 he was honored as United Seminary's distinguished alumnus.

Schnase lives in San Antonio with his wife, Esther.  
Bishop John K. Yambasu was the Resident Bishop of the Sierra Leone Area, which includes the Sierra Leone Conference in the West Africa Central Conference of the United Methodist Church.  
While in Louisiana, he served as Chairman of the Board of Ordained Ministry from 1980-1988. His doctoral project dealt with the local ministers' professional relationships to other helping professions. Moses Fleetwood Walker, the first black man to play for a major league baseball team. He caught 46 games, all barehanded and hit a .251 average. 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. Charlene and Leigh have been partners in ministry since being students together at seminary.

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From this role of program and administrative oversight for the Conference, Warner was appointed just four years later to the Superintendency of the Golden Gate District, the richly diverse area including San Francisco and several rural and suburban counties along the Pacific Coast. Shirley Clarissa Hunte married F. Herbert Skeete on October 4, 1952, while he was serving in the U.S. Air Force. He was first elected to General Conference in 1996 and then to successive General Conferences in 2000 and 2004.

Transforming the Annual Conference

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Superintendent, York District, Susquehanna Conference, 2007-Present
He was ordained into the Evangelical United Brethren Church in 1966.
He did additional study at the Graduate Seminary at Phillips University where he also taught United Methodist polity.
After receiving an M. Div. At the 1988 General Conference Susan was elected to the Judicial Council.

Earl enjoys fishing, hunting, reading, technology, and traveling with family.

She recently celebrated her 92nd birthday where she visited with many and had a wonderful day.

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Bishop Øystein Olsen is a Retired Bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 2001-2009.
Education: Bishop Galvan received his High School education at the Methodist Boarding School “Instituto Mexicano Madero” in Puebla Mexico. Bishop Lewis is a member of the Atlanta Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Drawn to the youth programs, she became active in the Methodist church as a teen-ager.

While assigned to First UMC Wenatchee, she also was President of the Board of Directors of the Rape Crisis and Domestic Violence Center and served on the North Central Washington AIDS Coalition. William Boyd Grove was elected to the episcopacy by the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference in 1980 and was assigned to the West Virginia Episcopal Area [1980-1992] and the Albany (NY) Episcopal Area [1992-1996]. Find stories, updates and expert opinion. He has served on and chaired numerous conference, jurisdictional, general and world councils and boards, and has been honored with the distinguished Alumni Award from both Southwestern University and Perkins School of Theology.

He was born on January 21, 1957 and was a son of the late Richard and Mae (Coffey) 11/05/1971 - 09/03/2022 We bid farewell all too soon to Matt. He married Judy Leonard in 1967. In 1966 he joined the United States Marine Corps and served in Vietnam, where Read More, Edith M. Bachrach South Hadley, MA Edith Bachrach, born January 17, 1919 to Alter and Ethel Mednitzky, died October 27, 2022 after a long and well lived life.

Council of Bishops’ Leadership Teams on Leadership Development and on Leadership Discernment. He obtained his B.Sc. After receiving an A.B. For four years he was pastor of St. Paul's UMC in Newport, RI.
He served eight years each on the General Board of Global Ministries and the General Council on Ministries. They have five grandchildren.
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2020 - COB President-Designate, two-year term 

He currently serves as chairperson of the denomination’s Committee on Faith and Order.
That was the beauty of the filmmaker Oscar Micheaux.
He received his B.D. Ernest and Eleanor Bell Lyght have two sons, Eric and Erwyn, and two grandchildren, Corinne and Shawn.

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  • Talbert married Marilyn W. Magee April 1, 2000.
    Pastor, First United Methodist Church Roanoke-Trophy Club-Westlake, Texas, 1988-1991
    Dear father of Deborah Read More, Age 96, formerly of Upper St. Clair, on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. His book, And Are We Yet Alive? He was Headmaster and teacher at Cambine Theological School, and served pastorates at Malhangalene, Cambine and Machava. After Jeff graduated from Beaver Creek High School, he went on to study at High Point University. His has served as local church pastor in the southern part of Norway for the following congregations: Egersund; Bergen Central, as youth pastor (50%) and Bethany Hospital as hospital chaplain (50%); Halden; "pastor in charge" in Strömstad, Sweden; Skien; Kjølberg; Oslo Immanuel. 2006-2010 Church Council Delegate on the Supervisory Board of the »Diaconal Works« Bethanien and Bethesda

    Trimble, a native of Chicago and a graduate of Illinois State University earned his Master of Divinity degree from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Chicago, Ill., and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Ashland Theological Seminary in Ohio.

    degree. Key Findings. Fritz served in a variety of appointments in Missouri and Indiana. ------------------------

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

    He was born in Montague on September 13, 1958. ------------------------

    He was graduated summa cum laude from Millsaps College with a B.A. On the first ballot, he received 277 of 287 votes cast.

    He served in many capacities in the Mississippi Annual Conference including the Board of Directors of United Methodist Senior Services, Millsaps College, Mississippi Methodist Foundation; Board of Ordained Ministry; Design Team for the Residency in Ministry Program; and Development of the Transitions Seminar for Moving Pastors.  He has been a delegate to four Jurisdictional Conferences and three General Conferences.

    The next one isn't until 2025. Connect with your classmates to honor alumni and teachers. Upon his return from the United States, where he finished his D.Min. from Union Theological Seminary, in New York City, an M. Th. In her early ministry, she served a four-point country charge in Frederick MD, as a campus minister for Gallaudet University (a leader in higher education for deaf persons located in Washington, DC), and as co-pastor, with her husband, Mike, of Lansdowne United Methodist Church, in Baltimore, MD. He is the Resident Bishop of the Ohio West Area, which includes the Ohio West Conference in the North Central Jurisdiction of The United Methodist Church.
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    Pastor, Brewster Memorial United Methodist Church, 1985-1988
    Published in Daily Hampshire Gazette on Oct. 27, 2022. Later, Roy was the chaplain and taught at Mills College, Oakland, CA, and served on the faculty of Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA.

    Bishop Scott Jameson Jones was elected to the episcopacy in 2004 and currently serves as the resident bishop of the Texas Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church with an office in Houston.
    Willie and the late April Smith. He offered oversight of new church planting, church transformation, language-based faith communities and shared in leadership development.
    Andrea was born in Northampton Read More, Gloria Boyer Easthampton, MA - Gloria Boyer, 77, passed away on November 6, 2022 at Linda Manor in Northampton. Born in Indian Orchard, he was the son of Edna (Warchol) Libucha Land Read More, David Wood Plainfield, MA - David was born in Syracuse NY to Judge Laurence David "LD" Wood and Esther Wynkoop Wood.
    He is also the recipient of many honors and awards including the Outstanding Alumni Award in 1998 from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, as well as the 2007 Bishop James S. Thomas Social Action Award from the Methodist Federation for Social Action at Lakeside, OH.

    Lebanon Church in Mt. Questia. She was born January 21, 1931, in Normalville, the youngest child of Dewey and Bertha Mosholder. Present Pastor, Overton Park United Methodist Church, Fort Worth, Texas, 1992-97
    He furthered his formal education at Dillard University in New Orleans, obtaining a B.A. His most recent pre-Episcopal appointment was as the Executive Director of the Center for Leadership Excellence, a joint position between the California-Pacific Annual Conference and the Claremont School of Theology, where he served as the Director of Leadership for the annual conference and a faculty member at the Claremont School of Theology.

    He and his wife, Millicent, had five children — Rebecca, Adima, John, Emmanuel, and Elizabeth.

    . Bishop George W. Bashore is a retired bishop of The United Methodist Church, having served from 1980-2000.
    From 2000-2007, he served as senior pastor of Church of the Shepherd in St. Charles where he led the congregation through relocation that increased worship from 450 to 1,200 in worship attendance.

    "My dream is that we live into beloved community.

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    Her husband of three years, the Rev. Prior to retirement, she had been employed by SuperValu, formerly Charley Read More, Emilio A. Russo, 99, of Butler, passed away on Monday, Nov. 7, 2022. Linda Lee was elected to the episcopacy by the North Central Jurisdictional Conference on July 14, 2000, in Middleton, Wisconsin, the first African American woman to be elected bishop in the North Central Jurisdiction. In 2002-2003 Bishop Galvan was elected as President of the Council of Bishops.
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