Eligible clergy and laity wishing to be considered for election must complete a Conference Delegation Self-Nomination Form no later than May 15, 2023.
The SEJ Conference elected three new bishops and conducted other business. The Committee on Episcopacy announced Bishop Debra Wallace-Padgett will return to North Alabama.
The Council of Bishops has formally set the dates for regular sessions of the Jurisdictional Conferences of The United Methodist Church to be convened November 2-5, 2022.
The Commission on General Conference made the difficult decision for a second postponement of the 2020 General Conference after months of careful discernment.
Because of the postponement of the General and Jurisdictional Conferences, the decision has been made to assign our Southeastern Jurisdiction bishops back to their current areas until the postponed 2020 Jurisdictional Conference meets on November 10-12, 2021.
The new dates for the 2020 Jurisdictional Conferences in the United States, which have been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, are November 10-12, 2021.
<p> Click the title above to see the latest announced information regarding North Alabama's election of Delegates to the 2016 General and Jurisdictional Conferences. </p>
In the past, Annual Conferences elected delegates to General and Jurisdictional Conference at the Annual Conference session held the calendar year preceding General Conference. However, in 2012, our North Alabama Conference delegation to General Conference proposed legislation, which was adopted by the General Conference, to allow Annual Conferences to elect delegates two annual conference sessions before the General Conference session.
