5, 1812. Restoration to Bishop Emeritus On February 26, 2016, the bishops of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference unanimously approved a resolution to "grant a remission of the censure of excommunication to Martin Boehm and a restoration of his bishop creditial, emeritus." The resolution was presented, and a written confession signed, by three Mennonite bishops at the 225th anniversary of Boehm's Chapel on June 26, 2016, to a crowd of more than 250 witnesses. See also List of bishops of the United Methodist Church References External links Biography Also selections at https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/22379639/number-1-fall-2000-huntington-university Boehm, Martin (1725-1812) at Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online The Ancestry of Martin Boehm The Story of Boehm and Otterbein, from the Church of the United Brethren in Christ website "Mennonites Reconnect with UMC Founder", from the United Methodist Church website 1725 births 1812 deaths 18th-century Mennonite bishops American Mennonites Methodists from Pennsylvania German emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies American United Brethren in Christ Bishops of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ Bishops of the Evangelical United Brethren Church Burials in Pennsylvania Converts to Methodism 19th-century Anabaptist ministers Place of death missing River Brethren