List of bishops of the United Methodist Church

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This is a list of bishops of the United Methodist Church and its predecessor denominations, in order of their election to the episcopacy, both living and dead.

1784–1807[]

Founders
  • Thomas Coke 1784
  • Francis Asbury 1784
  • Richard Whatcoat 1800
  • Philip William Otterbein 1800
  • Martin Boehm 1800
  • Jacob Albright 1807

1808–1825[]

  • William McKendree 1808
  • Christian Newcomer 1813
  • Enoch George 1816
  • Robert Richford Roberts 1816
  • Andrew Zeller 1817
  • Joseph Hoffman 1821
  • Joshua Soule 1824
  • Elijah Hedding 1824
  • Henry Kumler Sr 1825

1826–1850[]

  • John Emory 1832
  • James Osgood Andrew 1832
  • Samuel Heistand 1833
  • William Brown 1833
  • Beverly Waugh 1836
  • Thomas Asbury Morris 1836
  • 1837
  • John Seybert 1839
  • 1841
  • John Coons 1841
  • Joseph Long 1843
  • Leonidas Lent Hamline 1844
  • 1844
  • John Russel 1845
  • Jacob John Glossbrenner 1845
  • William Hanby 1845
  • 1846
  • 1846
  • David Edwards 1849
  • Henry Bidleman Bascom 1850

1851–1875[]

  • Levi Scott 1852
  • Matthew Simpson 1852
  • Osman Cleander Baker 1852
  • Edward Raymond Ames 1852
  • Lewis Davis 1853
  • George Foster Pierce 1854
  • John Early 1854
  • 1854
  • Francis Burns 1858
  • William Wagner Orwig 1859
  • Jacob Markwood 1861
  • Daniel Shuck 1861
  • John Jacob Esher 1863
  • Davis Wasgatt Clark 1864
  • Edward Thomson 1864
  • Calvin Kingsley 1864
  • Jonathan Weaver 1865
  • William May Wightman 1866
  • Enoch Mather Marvin 1866
  • David Seth Doggett 1866
  • Holland Nimmons McTyeire 1866
  • John Wright Roberts 1866
  • John Dickson 1869
  • John Christian Keener 1870
  • 1871
  • Thomas Bowman 1872
  • William Logan Harris 1872
  • Randolph Sinks Foster 1872
  • Isaac William Wiley 1872
  • Stephen Mason Merrill 1872
  • Edward Gayer Andrews 1872
  • Gilbert Haven 1872
  • Jesse Truesdell Peck 1872
  • Rudolph Dubs 1875
  • Thomas Bowman 1875

1876–1900[]

1901–1912[]

  • George Martin Mathews 1902
  • Alexander Coke Smith 1902
  • Elijah Embree Hoss 1902
  • 1902
  • William Franklin Heil 1902
  • Joseph Flintoft Berry 1904
  • Henry Spellmeyer 1904
  • William Fraser McDowell 1904
  • James Whitford Bashford 1904
  • William Burt 1904
  • 1904
  • Thomas Benjamin Neely 1904
  • Isaiah Benjamin Scott 1904
  • William Fitzjames Oldham 1904
  • John Edward Robinson 1904
  • Merriman Colbert Harris 1904
  • William Marion Weekley 1905
  • William Mayes Willis 1905
  • William Melvin Bell 1905
  • Thomas Coke Carter 1905
  • John James Tigert III 1906
  • Seth Ward 1906
  • James Atkins 1906
  • 1907
  • William Franklin Anderson 1908
  • John Louis Nuelsen 1908
  • William Alfred Quayle 1908
  • Charles William Smith 1908
  • Wilson Seeley Lewis 1908
  • Edwin Holt Hughes 1908
  • Robert McIntyre 1908
  • 1908
  • Collins Denny 1910
  • John Carlisle Kilgo 1910
  • William Belton Murrah 1910
  • Walter Russell Lambuth 1910
  • Richard Green Waterhouse 1910
  • Edwin DuBose Mouzon 1910
  • James Henry McCoy 1910
  • William Hargrave Fouke 1910
  • Uriah Frantz Swengel 1910
  • 1912
  • William Orville Shepard 1912
  • Theodore Sommers Henderson 1912
  • Naphtali Luccock 1912
  • Francis John McConnell 1912
  • Frederick DeLand Leete 1912
  • Richard Joseph Cooke 1912
  • Wilbur Patterson Thirkield 1912
  • 1912
  • William Perry Eveland 1912

1913–1925[]

  • Henry Harness Fout 1913
  • Cyrus Jeffries Kephart 1913
  • Alfred Taylor Howard 1913
  • Gottlieb Heinmiller 1915
  • Lawrence Hoover Seager 1915
  • Herbert George Welch 1916
  • Thomas Nicholson 1916
  • Adna Wright Leonard 1916
  • Matthew Simpson Hughes 1916
  • Charles Bayard Mitchell 1916
  • Franklin Elmer Ellsworth Hamilton 1916
  • Alexander Priestly Camphor 1916
  • Eben Samuel Johnson 1916
  • William H. Washinger 1917
  • John Moore 1918
  • William Fletcher McMurry 1918
  • Urban Valentine Williams Darlington 1918
  • Horace Mellard DuBose 1918
  • William Newman Ainsworth 1918
  • James Cannon Jr 1918
  • Matthew T. Maze 1918
  • Lauress John Birney 1920
  • Frederick Bohn Fisher 1920
  • Charles Edward Locke 1920
  • Ernest Lynn Waldorf 1920
  • Edgar Blake 1920
  • Ernest Gladstone Richardson 1920
  • Charles Wesley Burns 1920
  • Harry Lester Smith 1920
  • George Harvey Bickley 1920
  • Frederick Thomas Keeney 1920
  • Charles Larew Mead 1920
  • Anton Bast 1920
  • Robert Elijah Jones 1920
  • Matthew Wesley Clair 1920
  • 1921
  • William Benjamin Beauchamp 1922
  • James Edward Dickey 1922
  • Samuel Ross Hay 1922
  • Hoyt McWhorter Dobbs 1922
  • Hiram Abiff Boaz 1922
  • John Francis Dunlap 1922
  • George Amos Miller 1924
  • Titus Lowe 1924
  • George Richmond Grose 1924
  • Brenton Thoburn Badley 1924
  • Wallace Elias Brown 1924
  • Arthur Biggs Statton 1925

1926–1938[]

  • John S. Stamm 1926
  • Samuel J. Umbreit 1926
  • Raymond J. Wade 1928
  • James Chamberlain Baker 1928
  • Edwin Ferdinand Lee 1928
  • 1929
  • Ira David Warner 1929
  • John W. Gowdy 1930
  • Chih Ping Wang 1930
  • Arthur James Moore 1930
  • Paul Bentley Kern 1930
  • Angie Frank Smith 1930
  • George Edward Epp 1930
  • Jashwant Rao Chitambar 1931
  • Juan Ermete Gattinoni 1932
  • Junius Ralph Magee 1932
  • Ralph Spaulding Cushman 1932
  • Elmer Wesley Praetorius 1934
  • Charles H. Stauffacher 1934
  • Jarrell Waskom Pickett 1935
  • Roberto Valenzuela Elphick 1936
  • Wilbur Emery Hammaker 1936
  • Charles Wesley Flint 1936
  • Garfield Bromley Oxnam 1936
  • Alexander Preston Shaw 1936
  • John McKendree Springer 1936
  • F. H. Otto Melle 1936
  • 1937
  • Victor Otterbein Weidler 1938
  • Ivan Lee Holt 1938
  • William Walter Peele 1938
  • Clare Purcell 1938
  • Charles Claude Selecman 1938
  • John Lloyd Decell 1938
  • William Clyde Martin 1938
  • William Turner Watkins 1938

1939–1950[]

1951–1963[]

1964–1975[]

  • James Samuel Thomas 1964
  • William McFerrin Stowe 1964
  • Walter Kenneth Goodson 1964
  • Dwight Ellsworth Loder 1964
  • Robert Marvin Stuart 1964
  • Edward Julian Pendergrass Jr 1964
  • Thomas Marion Pryor 1964
  • Homer Ellis Finger Jr 1964
  • Earl Gladstone Hunt Jr 1964
  • Francis Enmer Kearns 1964
  • Lance Webb 1964
  • Escrivao Anglaze Zunguze 1964
  • Robert Fielden Lundy 1964
  • Harry Peter Andreassen 1964
  • John Wesley Shungu 1964
  • Alfred Jacob Shaw 1965
  • Prabhakar Christopher Benjamin Balaram 1965
  • Stephen Trowen Nagbe 1965
  • 1966
  • Benjamin I. Guansing 1967
  • Lineunt Scott Allen 1967
  • Paul Arthur Washburn 1968
  • Carl Ernst Sommer 1968
  • David Frederick Wertz 1968
  • Alsie Henry Carleton 1968
  • Roy Calvin Nichols 1968
  • Arthur James Armstrong 1968 (resigned 1983)
  • William Ragsdale Cannon 1968
  • Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa 1968
  • Cornelio M. Ferrer 1968
  • Paul Locke A. Granadosin 1968
  • Joseph R. Lance 1968
  • Ram Dutt Joshi 1968
  • Eric Algernon Mitchell 1969
  • Federico Jose Pagura 1969
  • Armin E. Haertel 1970
  • Ole Edvard Borgen 1970
  • Finis Alonzo Crutchfield, Jr. 1972
  • Joseph Hughes Yeakel 1972
  • Robert E. Goodrich Jr 1972
  • Carl Julian Sanders 1972
  • Ernest T. Dixon Jr 1972
  • Don Wendell Holter 1972
  • Wayne K. Clymer 1972
  • Joel David McDavid 1972
  • Edward Gonzalez Carroll 1972
  • Jesse Robert DeWitt 1972
  • James Mase Ault 1972
  • John B. Warman 1972
  • Mack B. Stokes 1972
  • Jack Tuell 1972
  • Melvin E. Wheatley Jr 1972
  • Edward Lewis Tullis 1972
  • Frank Lewis Robertson 1972
  • Wilbur Wong Yan Choy 1972
  • Robert McGrady Blackburn 1972
  • Emilio J. M. de Carvalho 1972
  • Fama Onema 1972 Bishop Joseph Fama Onema is a retired Congolese Bishop of United Methodist Church, elected to that office in 1972.
  • Mamidi Elia Peter 1972
  • Bennie de Quency Warner 1973

1976–1988[]

  • J. Kenneth Shamblin 1976
  • Alonzo Monk Bryan 1976
  • Kenneth William Hicks 1976
  • James Chess Lovern 1976
  • Leroy Charles Hodapp 1976
  • Edsel Albert Ammons 1976
  • C. Dale White 1976
  • Ngoy Kimba Wakadilo 1976
  • Almeida Penicela 1976
  • LaVerne D. Mercado 1976
  • 1977
  • Shantu Kumar A. Parmar 1979
  • Thomas Syla Bangura 1979
  • John Alfred Ndoricimpa 1980
  • William Talbot Handy Jr 1980
  • John Wesley Hardt 1980
  • Benjamin Ray Oliphint 1980
  • Louis Wesley Schowengerdt 1980
  • Melvin George Talbert 1980
  • Paul Andrews Duffey 1980
  • Edwin Charles Boulton 1980
  • John William Russell 1980
  • Fitz Herbert Skeete 1980
  • George Willis Bashore 1980
  • Roy Clyde Clark 1980
  • William Boyd Grove 1980
  • Emerson Stephen Colaw 1980
  • Marjorie Matthews 1980
  • 1980
  • Calvin Dale McConnell 1980
  • Kainda Katembo 1980
  • Emerito P. Nacpil 1980
  • 1980
  • Late Bishop Dr. is first Bishop of Methodist Church in India 1981
  • Felton Edwin May 1984
  • Ernest A. Fitzgerald 1984
  • R. Kern Eutsler 1984
  • J. Woodrow Hearn 1984
  • Walter L. Underwood 1984
  • Richard B. Wilke 1984
  • J. Lloyd Knox 1984
  • Neil L. Irons 1984
  • Roy I. Sano 1984
  • Lewis Bevel Jones III 1984
  • Forrest C. Stith 1984
  • Ernest W. Newman 1984
  • Woodie W. White 1984
  • Robert Crawley Morgan 1984
  • David J. Lawson 1984
  • Elias Gabriel Galvan 1984
  • Rueben Philip Job 1984
  • Leontine T. Kelly 1984
  • Judith Craig 1984
  • Rüdiger Rainer Minor 1986
  • Eugenio Poma Anaguña 1986
  • Jose Castro Gamboa Jr 1986
  • Thomas Barber Stockton 1988
  • Harold Hasbrouck Hughes Jr 1988
  • Richard Carl Looney 1988
  • Robert Hitchcock Spain 1988
  • Susan Murch Morrison 1988
  • R. Sheldon Duecker 1988
  • Joseph Benjamin Bethea 1988
  • William B. Oden 1988
  • Bruce P. Blake 1988
  • Charles Wilbourne Hancock 1988
  • Clay Foster Lee Jr 1988
  • Sharon A. Brown Christopher 1988
  • Dan E. Solomon 1988
  • William B. Lewis 1988
  • William W. Dew Jr 1988
  • Moises Domingos Fernandes 1988
  • Joao Somane Machado 1988

1989–2000[]

  • Walter Klaiber 1989
  • Heinrich Bolleter 1989
  • Hans Vaxby 1989
  • Alfred Lloyd Norris 1992
  • Joe Allen Wilson 1992
  • Robert Eugene Fannin 1992
  • Amelia Ann B. Sherer 1992
  • Albert Frederick Mutti 1992
  • Raymond Harold Owen 1992
  • Joel Nestali Martinez 1992
  • Donald Arthur Ott 1992
  • Kenneth Lee Carder 1992
  • Hae Jong Kim 1992 (resigned 2005)
  • William Wesley Morris 1992
  • Marshall Leroy Meadors Jr 1992
  • Charles Wesley Jordan 1992
  • Sharon Zimmerman Rader 1992
  • S. Clifton Ives 1992
  • Mary Ann Swenson 1992
  • Done Peter Dabale 1992
  • Joseph Christian Humper 1992
  • Christopher Jokomo 1992
  • Daniel C. Arichea Jr 1994
  • G. Lindsey Davis 1996
  • Joseph E. Pennel Jr 1996
  • Charlene P. Kammerer 1996
  • Alfred Johnson 1996
  • Cornelius L. Henderson 1996
  • Susan Wolfe Hassinger 1996
  • J. Lawrence McCleskey 1996
  • Ernest S. Lyght 1996
  • Janice Riggle Huie 1996
  • Marion M. Edwards 1996
  • 1996
  • Peter D. Weaver 1996
  • Jonathan D. Keaton 1996
  • Ray Chamberlain 1996
  • 1996
  • Michael J. Coyner 1996
  • Edward W. Paup 1996 (resigned 2008 to accept General Secretariat of Board of Global Missions)
  • Ntambo Nkulu Ntanda 1996
  • Larry M. Goodpaster 2000
  • 2000
  • Beverly J. Shamana 2000
  • Violet L. Fisher 2000
  • Gregory V. Palmer 2000
  • William W. Hutchinson 2000
  • B. Michael Watson 2000
  • D. Max Whitfield 2000
  • Benjamin Roy Chamness 2000
  • Linda Lee 2000
  • James R. King 2000
  • Bruce R. Ough 2000
  • Warner H. Brown Jr 2000
  • José Quipungo 2000
  • Gaspar Joao Domingos 2000
  • Leo A. Soriano 2000
  • Benjamin A. Justo 2000
  • John G. Innis 2000
  • Carlos Intipampa 2000

2001–2007[]

Elected July 2008[]

Elected July 2012[]

Elected July 2016[]

See also[]

  • Conferences of the United Methodist Church
  • Methodism
  • United Methodist Church
  • Bishop
  • Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops
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