Talk:List of bishops of the United Methodist Church

Renaming?
The TITLE of this article should really be "List of United Methodist Bishops." While all of these Bishops are/were Bishops in what is now the United Methodist Church, NOT all of them were Bishops in what WAS the Methodist Church: Some were Bishops in what was the EUB Church, the Evangelical Church, the United Brethren Church, etc. Will someone tell me how to change this (or do it him/herself) please? Thank you! Pastorwayne 20:04, 7 February 2006 (UTC)


 * The proposed renaming is not really all that much more accurate, because e.g. EUB bishops were also not United Methodist Bishops. The list really needs to be split so that Bishops are listed according to the name of the denomination in which they actually served as Bishop, regardless of whether that denomination was subsquently merged or renamed.  Otherwise, Bishops end up being restrospectively relabelled, which may not reflect the nature of their work ... and it appears possible that some Bishops may not have joined the merged churches: e.g. did any Bishops resist the 1939 merger and join the Southern Methodist Church instead? BrownHairedGirl 12:17, 13 March 2006 (UTC)


 * All of the bishops listed in the UM Book of Discipline are considered UM bishops. Bishops who were members of antecedent bodies (ME Church, EUB, etc.) are considered UM bishops.  I would favor their inclusion.  Now, if we wanted to do so, we could go through and denote each one as "MEC" or "UB" or whatever.  KHM03 (talk) 12:55, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Since this is simply a list, based on the official list provided by the U.M. Church (and NOT disputed by those denominations which formed instead of joining the M-EUB merger [or prior mergers, such as the 1939 Methodist merger, or the 1946 E-UB merger]), it should remain as-is. It is primarily only a list. The additional lists (or more properly, CATEGORIES) are being created further deliniating to what prior denominations each Bishop belonged. This is better done in each individual's page (where it is BEING done), not clouding up this List. All the Bishops are considered U.M. Bishops. Individually, and as groups, they are also being categorized as M. Bishops, EUB Bishops, ME Bishops, etc. Pastorwayne 13:10, 13 March 2006 (UTC)


 * That's fine; my point was that these were all United Methodist bishops, officially speaking. KHM03 (talk) 13:20, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm persuaded too! BrownHairedGirl 14:12, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * split tag removed in light of this discussion. BrownHairedGirl 16:38, 13 March 2006 (UTC)


 * This list would be much more useful (and less 'clouded') if it did state which of the predecessor denominations appointed which bishop. There's plenty of room in a list to put more information. -- roundhouse 11:38, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

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