Group zeroes in on number, work of US bishops

2024 General Conference in Charlotte, NC

Setting the number of United Methodist bishop elections in the U.S. every four years used to be a matter of simple math.

How many bishops each jurisdiction could have within its borders largely depended on how many members were on its church rolls.

But that all changed when the 2024 General Conference eliminated the formula long utilized for calculating each U.S. jurisdiction’s allotment of bishops.

United Methodist leaders are now grappling with what many call the biggest change to bishop distribution since 1939. That was the year when General Conference — the denomination’s top lawmaking assembly — first established the U.S. jurisdictional system and the related formula for electing bishops.

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