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The highest organ of the World Methodist Council is the World Methodist Conference, which meets every five years. The next Conference, the 22nd, will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2024. [26] The 21st Conference was held in 2016 in Houston, Texas in the United States. The theme was "ONE".
William Thompson was the first President of the Methodist Conference after John Wesley's death. John Wesley, founder of Methodism, organised and presided over the first Methodist Conference, which was to become the church's governing body. This article lists his successors, who are elected by the Conference to serve a one-year term.
With regard to the membership of the General Conference of the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection, the 2014 Discipline, states: [1]. The voting members of the General Conference shall be the same as those who are credentialed in paragraph 63 of the Discipline, and the annual conference and quadrennial conference business may be conducted concurrently.
General Conference is the highest deliberative body for the United Methodist Church, the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Church, among others. [1] Jurisdictional Conferences in the U.S.; and; Central Conferences outside the U.S. elect and assign bishops in their region and comprise; Annual Conferences, the basic organizational unit in the ...
Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance: Thomas Schirrmacher; Chairman of the World Assemblies of God Fellowship: David Mohan; President of the World Communion of Reformed Churches: Najla Kassab; President of the World Methodist Council: Bishop Paulo Lockmann
When progressives lost at the 2019 United Methodist General Conference thanks to African votes, a bishop referred to the traditionalist agenda as a “virus.” But Global Methodism sees Africa as ...
This is a list of the largest Protestant denominations. It aims to include sizable Protestant communions, federations, alliances, councils, fellowships, and other denominational organisations in the world and provides information regarding the membership thereof. The list is inevitably partial and generally based on claims by the denominations ...
Isaac Foot – Vice President of the Methodist Conference (1937–38) and President of the Liberal Party (UK) (1947) John Karefa-Smart – Sierra Leonese foreign minister and Methodist elder; Robert Newbald Kay – British Liberal MP. Also a member of the Methodist Conference who was important to the Methodist chapel in Acomb, North Yorkshire.