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 Jacob Erb 1837 John Seybert 1839 Henry Kumler Jr 1841 John Coons 1841 Joseph Long 1843 Leonidas Lent Hamline 1844 Edmund Storer Janes 1844 John Russel 1845 Jacob John Glossbrenner 1845 William Hanby 1845 William Capers 1846 Robert Paine 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 Hubbard Hinde Kavanaugh 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 Reuben Yeakel 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 Milton Wright 1877 Nicholas Castle 1877 Beniah John Willis 1877 Henry White Warren 1880 Cyrus David Foss 1880 John Fletcher Hurst 1880 Erastus Otis Haven 1880 Ezekiel Boring Kephart 1881 Alpheus Waters Wilson 1882 Linus Parker 1882 John Cowper Granbery 1882 Robert Kennon Hargrove 1882 William Xavier Ninde 1884 John Morgan Walden 1884 Willard Francis Mallalieu 1884 Charles Henry Fowler 1884 William Taylor 1884 Daniel Kumler Flickinger 1885 William Wallace Duncan 1886 Charles Betts Galloway 1886 Eugene Russell Hendrix 1886 Joseph Stanton Key 1886 John Heyl Vincent 1888 James Newbury FitzGerald 1888 Isaac Wilson Joyce 1888 John Philip Newman 1888 Daniel Ayres Goodsell 1888 James Mills Thoburn 1888 James W. Hott 1889 Atticus Greene Haygood 1890 Oscar Penn Fitzgerald 1890 Wesley Matthias Stanford 1891 Christian S. Haman 1891