characteristic of the connexional (connectional) system of government in Methodism. Annual conferences are composed primarily of the clergy members and a lay member...

interest. Conferences can be used as a form of group decision-making, although discussion, not always decisions, is the primary purpose of conferences. The...

Methodist Church Annual conferences within Methodism Jurisdictional Conferences (United Methodist Church) Central Conferences (United Methodist Church) List...

organized into three annual conferences: north, east and south. All three annual conferences belong to the Germany Central Conference. Methodism is most prevalent...

ministry of that parish church. Conferences in Methodism Annual conferences within Methodism General Conference (Methodism) The Discipline of the Allegheny...

and the World Council of Churches among other ecumenical associations. Methodism began primarily through the work of John Wesley, who led an evangelical...

River Holston Formation Treaty of Holston Holston Conference, an annual conference within Methodism Holston Army Ammunition Plant in Kingsport, Tennessee...

Protestant denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism. In the 19th century, its main predecessor, the Methodist Episcopal Church...

Although the US jurisdictions and annual conferences are unable to alter the Book of Discipline as the Central Conferences are, the Western Jurisdiction declared...

Uniting Church in Australia in 1977. The leaders who originated Primitive Methodism were attempting to restore a spirit of revivalism as they felt was found...

Methodist New Connexion had their own conferences and presidents. The various branches were re-united in 1932. Methodism traces its roots to the 18th-century...

the GMC will have an episcopacy that will oversee annual conferences. Unlike the UMC, bishops within the GMC will be consecrated to serve for a set term...

origins lie in the First Great Awakening when Methodism emerged as an evangelical revival movement within the Church of England that stressed the necessity...

The Free Methodist Church itself arose within the context of the holiness movement within 19th century Methodism. The first general superintendent, B....

The history of Methodism in the United States dates back to the mid-18th century with the ministries of early Methodist preachers such as Laurence Coughlan...

A central conference is one of seven annual conferences organized by the United Methodist Church outside of the United States. Composed of equal numbers...

Elects First Woman as Bishop". The New York Times. "The role of women within Methodism". www.library.manchester.ac.uk. University of Manchester Library. Retrieved...

in North America from the 19th-century Wesleyan-Holiness movement within Methodism. Formed in the early 1900s in Texas, the denomination is now headquartered...

leader Howell Harris and the theologian John Calvin. As such, Calvinistic Methodism places a strong emphasis on the sovereignty of God and the Calvinist doctrine...

bishops to preside over African-American annual conferences scattered throughout the US. These conferences were not necessarily geographically contiguous...

of as the pastoral, priestly, clergy office within the church. In some of the denominations within Methodism that use the title, ordination to this office...

evangelist who was a principal leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form...

The governing body of the Methodist Church in Ireland is the annual Conference. Methodism was founded in England by John Wesley and his younger brother...

as Annual Conferences, and supervise the appointment and ministry of each Annual Conference's clergy and the mission and ministry of each Annual Conference's...

all annual (i.e., regional) conferences of the church within the area. Such bishops are said to have residential as well as presidential duties within his/her...

Lovely Lane Methodist Church, considered the Mother Church of American Methodism. The new Church grew rapidly in the young country as it employed circuit...

elder for 20 years, delegate to Annual Conferences, a member of 12 General Conferences, and of the 1891 Ecumenical Conference. He was laid to rest in Oakland...

contained within them, were from the very beginning 'connected' (hence the distinctive Methodist concept of the "Connexion") to the centre and Methodism's governing...

Holiness movement is a Christian movement that emerged chiefly within 19th-century Methodism, and to a lesser extent influenced other traditions such as...

is made up of monthly local church conferences, annual district conferences, and quadrennial general conferences. Southern Congregational Methodist churches...