The new elections of two United Methodist Church bishops and appointments for the full roster of 32 across the U.S., though two-thirds the size the group was before a historic splintering in the ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Just over a year ago, Bishop Tracy S. Malone, the area bishop of ...

Thirty-three retired United Methodist bishops have released a statement calling on The United Methodist Church to remove its ban on gay clergy, according to the United Methodist News Service. Nearly ...

Bishop Jonathan Holston, who took office on Sept. 1 as bishop over all United Methodist churches in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, will oversee half as many churches as his predecessors. More than ...

Questions of bishops stirred controversy in Costa Rica. Amid the joy of the convening General Conference of the Global Methodist Church as the new denomination ratified and modified the provisional ...

Retired United Methodist Bishop Richard Byrd Wilke, who led the church in Arkansas for 12 years, died on Easter morning in Winfield, Kan., at age 94. His funeral will be at 11 a.m., May 6, at that ...

United Methodist Bishop Richard Wilke, who died Sunday at 94, was known by millions of people worldwide whose deeper understanding of the Bible is thanks to his written and ahead-of-their-time ...

The new bishop for The United Methodist Church in the Dakotas wants to help his congregations thrive. But with young families leaving rural areas and a booming oil industry, Bishop Bruce Ough knows he ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Violent clashes have broken out between groups of Methodists in Nigeria and Liberia as a divide over the ordination of LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage has split the United ...

Five United Methodist jurisdictions decide on new bishop assignments for the U.S. in the last of a series of major legislative decisions this year for the UMC. More bishops will oversee administration ...