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The North Texas Conference is an Annual Conference (a regional episcopal area of the United Methodist Church). This conference encompasses a triangle-shaped northern portion of the state of Texas that spans from Dallas to Wichita Falls to Paris. The conference includes a small geographic area relative to most annual conferences. [1]
As of the 2012 General Conference, Bishops are required to retire if they reach age 68 on or before July 1 in the year of jurisdictional conferences. This ensures that no bishop is serving under appointment beyond their 72nd Birthday (which is currently the age of Mandatory Retirement in the UMC).
Lovely Lane United Methodist Church: 1884 built 1973 NRHP-listed Baltimore, Maryland: Romanesque Revival style, known as the Mother Church of American Methodism: St. George's United Methodist Church: 1767 built 1971 NRHP-listed
The conference was scheduled to be held in 2020 but had to be postponed because of the COVID pandemic, international travel challenges, and escalating tensions within the UMC regarding its LGBT+ ...
United Methodist Church administrative staff members Caitlin Congdon, left, Sandeep Kuntam, and Sharah Dass at the Upper Room Chapel Wednesday, April 3, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn.
Prior to the United Methodist Church's May 2024 General Conference, the UMC had rules, found in the Book of Discipline, that prohibited same-sex unions and the ordination of noncelibate homosexuals. Many progressive UMC leaders and churches, especially in the United States, are supportive of gay marriage and ignored the injunctions in the Book ...
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 ...
In 2023, a few congregations of the United Methodist Church left that denomination to join the Congregational Methodist Church due to a polarization that occurred between traditionalist Methodist clerics and those with progressive tendencies. [5] [6] [7] In 2024 they were followed by numerous others.