Herbert George Welch was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church. He was elected to the Episcopacy in 1916. He also distinguished himself as a Methodist Pastor, and as the fifth President of Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.
Francis John McConnell was an American social reformer and a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1912.
Garfield Bromley Oxnam was a social reformer and American Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1936.
Woodie Walter White is an American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1984.
Paul William Milhouse was an American Bishop of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, elected in 1960. When he died at the age of 94 he was the last surviving U.M. Bishop elected by the E.U.B. denomination.
William Ragsdale Cannon was the dean of Candler School of Theology (1953-1968) and an American bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1968.
Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer was a Bishop of the Methodist Church, elected in 1946 for service in Germany.
Hazen Graff Werner was a Bishop of The Methodist Church and The United Methodist Church, elected in 1948.
David Jerald Lawson was an American who gained notability as a pastor and university campus minister in the Methodist and United Methodist churches, as a district superintendent, annual conference official, and as a bishop of the United Methodist Church (UMC), elected in 1984. He also played a key role establishing and developing Africa University, which is the only UMC university on the continent.
Earl Gladstone Hunt Jr. (1918–2005) was an American who distinguished himself as a Methodist Pastor and Evangelist, as the President of Emory and Henry College, as an author and theologian, as a Bishop of The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church, and as a leader in World Methodism.
Scott Jameson Jones is an American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 2004. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee and raised in Illinois, Indiana and Colorado.
D. Stanley Coors was an American Bishop of The Methodist Church, elected in 1952.
Leroy Charles Hodapp distinguished himself as a Methodist Pastor, District Superintendent, Annual Conference Official, and Bishop of the United Methodist Church (U.M.C.) who was elected in 1976.
Roy Hunter Short was an American Bishop of The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church, elected in 1948.
Richard J. Wills Jr is a bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 2004.
Marshall Russell Reed was an American Bishop of The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church, elected in 1948.
An episcopal area in the United Methodist Church (UMC) is a basic unit of this denomination. It is a region presided over by a resident bishop that is similar to a diocese in other Christian denominations. Each annual conference in the UMC is within a single episcopal area; some episcopal areas include more than one annual conference. Episcopal areas are found in the United States as well as internationally. In some cases, such as the Western Jurisdiction of the US as well as some places internationally, an episcopal area covers a very large territory.
Lloyd Christ Wicke (1901–1996) was an American Bishop of The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church, elected in 1948. When he died in 1996 he was the oldest of the 117 active and retired United Methodist Bishops at that time, as well as the last one elected during the decade of the 1940s.
Raymond LeRoy Archer, was an American bishop of The Methodist Church. He was elected in 1950.
Bishop Richard B. Wilke created The DISCIPLE Bible Study with his wife, Julia. This training for Christian leaders has been completed by nearly two million graduates in more than 10,000 congregations and 30 denominations. The DISCIPLE series is now available in German, Korean, Spanish, and Chinese.
