jurisdictional colleges shall arrange the plan of episcopal supervision of the annual conferences, missionary
conferences and missions within their jurisdictions. In regional conferences where there are no jurisdictional
conferences, the regional conference” and add “(The change in name from “central” to “regional” takes effect
January 1, 2013 at which time this parenthetical procedural note will be removed from the Constitution.)” at end
of the paragraph.
If voted and so declared by the Council of Bishops, ¶ 48 (¶ 48) would read:
The bishops of each jurisdictional and regional conference shall constitute a College of Bishops. In regional
conferences where there are jurisdictional conferences, the jurisdictional colleges shall arrange the plan of
episcopal supervision of the annual conferences, missionary conferences and missions within their jurisdictions.
In regional conferences where there are no jurisdictional conferences, the regional conference College of Bishops
shall arrange the plan of episcopal supervision of the annual conferences, missionary conferences, and missions
within their respective territories. (The change in name from “central” to “regional” takes effect January 1, 2013 at
which time this parenthetical procedural note will be removed from the Constitution.)
AND
Proposed Constitutional Amendment – XXVII
On May 1, 2008, at a session of the General Conference of The United Methodist Church held in Fort Worth,
Texas, the following Constitutional Amendment was made by a recorded vote of 629 Yes, 246 No. It is now
presented to the Annual Conferences for vote.
In the 2004 Book of Discipline, Division Three, ¶ 49, Article V, (2008 Book of Discipline, Division Three, ¶ 49,
Article V) amend by deletion and addition, as follows:
In the first sentence, before “conferences” delete “ or central” and before “conferences” add “and regional” and
in the first sentence of the second paragraph delete “central” before “conference” and add “regional” before
“conference” and add “(The change in name from “central” to “regional” takes effect January 1, 2013 at which time
this parenthetical procedural note will be removed from the Constitution.)” at end of the paragraph.
If voted and so declared by the Council of Bishops, ¶ 49 (¶ 49) would read:
The bishops shall have residential and presidential supervision in the jurisdictional and regional conferences in
which they are elected or to which they are transferred. Bishops may be transferred from one jurisdiction to
another jurisdiction for presidential and residential supervision under the following conditions: (1) The transfer
of bishops may be on either of two bases: (a) a jurisdiction that receives a bishop by transfer from another
jurisdiction may transfer to that jurisdiction or to a third jurisdiction one of its own bishops eligible for transfer,
so that the number transferred in by each jurisdiction shall be balanced by the number transferred out; or (b)
a jurisdiction may receive a bishop from another jurisdiction and not transfer out a member of its own College
of Bishops. (2) No bishop shall be transferred unless that bishop shall have specifically consented. (3) No bishop
shall be eligible for transfer unless the bishop shall have served one quadrennium in the jurisdiction that elected
the bishop to the episcopacy. (4) All such transfers shall require the approval by a majority vote of the members
present and voting of the jurisdictional committees on episcopacy of the jurisdictions that are involved. After the
above procedures have been followed, the transferring bishop shall become a member of the receiving College of
Bishops and shall be subject to residential assignment by that jurisdictional conference. A bishop may be assigned
by the Council of Bishops for presidential service or other temporary service in another jurisdiction than that
which elected the bishop; provided that the request is made by a majority of the bishops in the jurisdiction of the
proposed service.
In the case of an emergency in any jurisdiction or regional conference through the death or disability of a bishop
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