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The UMC is a member of the Wesleyan Holiness Consortium, which seeks to reconceive and promote Biblical holiness in today's Church, and many United Methodist congregations are members of the Christian Holiness Partnership, with ten percent of local church membership in the Christian Holiness Partnership being from the United Methodist connexion.
This is a list of bishops of the United Methodist Church and its predecessor denominations, in order of their election to the episcopacy, both living and dead. 1784–1807 [ edit ]
Adam Hamilton (pastor) – senior pastor of the 17,000-member United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas; Harold P. Hamilton – Kentucky Wesleyan College President; Hill, Rowland – founder of Surrey Chapel, London and early advocate of vaccination; Silas Hocking – novelist and preacher
"The proposed use of ¶2549 contradicts the clear intent of ¶2549 by taking members and properties from the United Methodist Church and continuing religious activities as a new entity no longer a ...
In May the 1 million-member United Methodist church in the Ivory Coast quit the old denomination. In June, Nigeria Episcopal Area, with reportedly 600,000 members, ...
The United Methodist Church’s relationships with other church bodies are also strengthened through the GCCUIC’s membership in the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America (NCCCUSA) and the World Council of Churches (WCC). Recently, NCCCUSA initiatives have included a focus on addressing poverty and church ...
The United Methodist Council of Bishops is the organization of which all active and retired bishops in the United Methodist Connection are members. In the United Methodist system of polity, the Council of Bishops is the executive branch of the church's government. Bishop Tracy Smith Malone currently serves as president of the Council of Bishops ...
Methodist Church of Southern Africa – 1.7 million [198] African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church – 1.4 million [199] Korean Methodist Church – 1.3 million [200] Free Methodist Church – 0.9 million [201] Christian Methodist Episcopal Church – 0.9 million [202] Methodist Church Ghana – 0.8 million [203] Methodist Church in India – 0. ...