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.

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.