Section VII. Boundaries
¶41
Who determines the names and boundaries of annual conferences and episcopal areas.
- 2024 Discipline
- ¶41
- On the ballot paper
- ¶40
- Article
- IV → II
- Change
- Amended
Rewritten rather than tweaked — only 23% of the wording survives. Read the two texts side by side rather than the diff.
What changed
Simplified. The old paragraph named jurisdictional conferences for the United States and central conferences elsewhere; the new one says the regional conference, or the jurisdiction where a region has them. Its article number moves from IV to II because the two paragraphs before it are struck.
Before
Book of Discipline 2020/2024, ¶41
The number, names, and boundaries of the annual conferences and episcopal areas shall be determined by the jurisdictional conferences in the United States of America and by the central conferences outside the United States of America according to the provisions under the respective powers and pursuant to the respective structures of the jurisdictional and the central conferences. The authority of jurisdictional and central conferences provided herein is not circumscribed or limited by the authority provided to the College of Bishops to arrange a plan of episcopal supervision.
After
Petition 21039, as ratified
The number, names, and boundaries of the annual conferences and episcopal areas shall be determined by the respective regional conferences or by the jurisdiction, if a regional conference has jurisdictions. The authority of regional and jurisdictional conferences provided herein is not circumscribed or limited by the authority provided to the College of Bishops to arrange a plan of episcopal supervision.