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Welcome to the Council of Bishops' Web site at UMC.org
Bishops of The United Methodist Church provide spiritual leadership to more than 11 million persons in a broad range of settings on four continents, including North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Historically, bishops preside over Annual and Central Conferences (regional areas of the church). They play an important leadership role in helping to set the direction of the church and its mission throughout the world.
On this site you can meet your bishop and learn about the many ways United Methodists are in ministry in your community and around the world. | | | |
| | |  77 bishops urge troop pullout from Afghanistan
As President Barack Obama considers new military strategy for Afghanistan, at least 77 United Methodist bishops are praying he will withdraw troops by the end of 2010. | |  Bishop Palmer encourages support of CCPI
The Central Conference Pension Initiative (CCPI) launched in 2006 to raise $20 million for short-term relief and to enable the General Board of Pension and Health Benefits to develop pension programs in the central conferences. To date $18 million has been raised—and pilot projects are underway in Liberia and Mozambique. | |  Bishops seek younger church membership by 2019
At its fall meeting, the Council of Bishops approved a plan that emphasizes mission work and leadership development among young people to help reverse declines in the U.S. church, which is aging and shrinking in membership. | |  Bishops' letter pledges to protect God's creation
Pandemic poverty and disease, environmental degradation and a world full of weapons and violence are the wages of our sins against God's creation. But there is hope if we change our ways, the 69 active United Methodist bishops say in a pastoral letter that will be read in churches during Advent. | | | |
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