In Their Own Words

Devotions, articles, and other thoughts written by the bishops of The United Methodist Church.

Bishops of the Annual Conferences (United States)     

• Bishop Thomas J. Bickerton (Pittsburgh)
• Bishop Warner H. Brown, Jr. (Denver) 
• Bishop Minerva G. Carcano (Phoenix)     
• Bishop Sharon A. Brown Christopher (Illinois)
• Bishop Michael J. Coyner (Indiana)     
• Bishop Sally Dyck (Minnesota)   
• Bishop Larry M. Goodpaster (Alabama West-Florida)
• Bishop Robert T. Hoshibata (Portland)
• Bishop Janice Riggle Huie (Houston) 
• Bishop Scott J. Jones (Kansas) 
• Bishop Hee-soo Jung (Chicago)
• Bishop Charlene P. Kammerer (Virginia)
• Bishop Jonathan D. Keaton (Michigan)
• Bishop Deborah L. Kiesey (Dakotas)
• Bishop James R. King (Louisville)
• Bishop Marcus Matthews (Philadelphia)         
• Bishop Jane Allen Middleton (Harrisburg)
• Bishop Rhymes H. Moncure, Jr. (Dallas)
• Bishop Susan M. Morrison (Albany)
• Bishop Gregory V. Palmer (Iowa)         
• Bishop Jeremiah J. Park (New York)
• Bishop Robert C. Schnase (Missouri)    
• Bishop John R. Schol (Washington)      
• Bishop Ann Brookshire Sherer (Nebraska)
• Bishop James E. Swanson, Sr. (Holston)       
• Bishop Hope Morgan Ward (Mississippi)
• Bishop B. Michael Watson (South Georgia)       
• Bishop Timothy W. Whitaker (Florida)       
• Bishop D. Max Whitfield (Northwest Texas/New Mexico)
• Bishop William H. Willimon (Birmingham)  

Bishops of the Central Conference (Outside the United States)

• Bishop Heinrich Bolleter (Central and Southern Europe Episcopal Area)
• Bishop Ruediger Minor (Eurasia Episcopal Area; Russia, Ukraine)
• Bishop Walter Klaiber (Germany Episcopal Area)
• Bishop Øystein Olsen (Nordic and Baltic Episcopal Area)