North Alabama 2022 Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference Delegation
Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference
The 2022 Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference (SEJ) met at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina from Nov. 2-4, 2022. Delegates from the 14 Annual Conference in the southeast gathered under the theme “This I Know” to elect three new bishops and conduct other jurisdictional business.
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Every four years, elected clergy (pastors) and lay (local church members) delegates from the US Annual Conferences meet together for a Jurisdictional Conference to vote on business matters and to elect ordained elders to be Bishops for the church. (All five Jurisdictional Conferences happen simultaneously.) The 2022 jurisdictional Conference were postponed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Once elected, a Bishop will be appointed to oversee an Episcopal Area within that Jurisdiction. An Episcopal Area is made up of a part, a whole, or multiple Annual Conference areas. There are 13 Episcopal areas, made up of 14 Annual Conferences, within the Southeastern Jurisdiction.
Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference Posts

2022 Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference Updates
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.
November 04, 2022
UMC Bishops agree to call regular sessions of jurisdictional conferences in 2022
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.
May 30, 2022
Message from Bishop Wallace-Padgett: Postponed 2020 General Conference
The Commission on General Conference made the difficult decision for a second postponement of the 2020 General Conference after months of careful discernment.
March 01, 2021The 2022 Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference (SEJ) met at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina from Nov. 2-4, 2022. Delegates from the 14 Annual Conference in the southeast gathered under the theme “This I Know” to elect three new bishops and conduct other jurisdictional business.
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Every four years, elected clergy (pastors) and lay (local church members) delegates from the US Annual Conferences meet together for a Jurisdictional Conference to vote on business matters and to elect ordained elders to be Bishops for the church. (All five Jurisdictional Conferences happen simultaneously.) The 2022 jurisdictional Conference were postponed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Once elected, a Bishop will be appointed to oversee an Episcopal Area within that Jurisdiction. An Episcopal Area is made up of a part, a whole, or multiple Annual Conference areas. There are 13 Episcopal areas, made up of 14 Annual Conferences, within the Southeastern Jurisdiction.
Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference Posts

2022 Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference Updates
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.
November 04, 2022
UMC Bishops agree to call regular sessions of jurisdictional conferences in 2022
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.
May 30, 2022
Message from Bishop Wallace-Padgett: Postponed 2020 General Conference
The Commission on General Conference made the difficult decision for a second postponement of the 2020 General Conference after months of careful discernment.
March 01, 2021