who is in charge of the methodist church
General Conference
title: Loraine Mellor text: 2016, becoming the President-elect. She took up the post the following year, on 24 June 2017. She succeeds Roger Walton. Addressing the Methodist Conference, Mellor expressed regret over the declining membership of the church. She stated that the Methodist Church needed to return to its radical roots. After presiding over the Summer sessions of the annual Conference, a president serves a one-year term as head of the Methodist Church. On 17 July 2017, she met Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby at Lambeth Palace. Loraine Mellor Loraine Nancy Mellor is a British Methodist Minister who served as the President of the title: United Methodist Church text: is not uncommon for different bishops to preside on different days. The presiding officer usually is accompanied by parliamentarians. Subordinate to the General Conference are the jurisdictional and central conferences which also meet every four years. The United States is divided into five jurisdictions: Northeastern, Southeastern, North Central, South Central and Western. Outside the United States the church is divided into seven central conferences: Africa, Congo, West Africa, Central & Southern Europe, Germany, Northern Europe and the Philippines. The main purpose of the jurisdictions and central conferences is to elect and appoint bishops, the chief administrators of the church. Bishops title: Methodism text: present on all populated continents. Although Methodism is declining in Great Britain and North America, it is growing in other places; at a rapid pace in, for example, South Korea. There is no single Methodist Church with universal juridical authority; Methodists belong to multiple independent denominations or "connexions". The great majority of Methodists are members of denominations which are part of the international World Methodist Council, an association of 80 Methodist, Wesleyan and related united and uniting churches, representing over 80 million people. In 1956, the World Methodist Council established a permanent headquarters in the United States at Lake Junaluska, title: Methodism text: Methodism Methodism (also known as the Methodist movement) is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's brother Charles Wesley were also significant early leaders in the movement. It originated as a revival movement within the 18th-century Church of England and became a separate denomination after Wesley's death. The movement spread throughout the British Empire, the United States, and beyond because of vigorous missionary work, today claiming approximately 80 million adherents worldwide. Wesley's theology focused on sanctification and the effect of faith on title: Methodism text: the Methodist Church, citing modernism in its parent body as the reason for the departure in 1946. American Methodist churches are generally organized on a "connectional" model, related, but not identical to that used in Britain. Pastors are assigned to congregations by bishops, distinguishing it from presbyterian government. Methodist denominations typically give lay members representation at regional and national Conferences at which the business of the church is conducted, making it different from most episcopal government. This connectional organizational model differs further from the congregational model, for example of Baptist, and Congregationalist Churches, among others. In addition to the United