Episcopal supervision

¶47

Who elects bishops, and when.

2024 Discipline: ¶47
On the ballot paper: ¶46
Article: II
Change: Amended

Rewritten rather than tweaked — only 16% of the wording survives. Read the two texts side by side rather than the diff.

What changed

Bishops are elected by the regional conference, or by the jurisdiction where a region has jurisdictions. The time and place of consecration passes from General Conference to each regional conference. The bar on electing bishops at extra sessions now attaches to regional conferences without jurisdictions.

Before

Book of Discipline 2020/2024, ¶47

The bishops shall be elected by the respective jurisdictional and central conferences and consecrated in the historic manner at such time and place as may be fixed by the General Conference for those elected by the jurisdictions and by each central conference for those elected by such central conference, provided that episcopal elections in central conferences shall be held at a regular, not an extra, session of the central conference, except in the case where an unexpected vacancy must be filled.

After

Petition 21039, as ratified

The bishops shall be elected by the respective regional conferences or by the jurisdiction, if a regional conference has jurisdictions, and consecrated in the historic manner at such time and place as may be fixed by each regional conference, provided that episcopal elections in regional conferences without jurisdictions shall be held at a regular, not an extra, session of such regional conference, except in the case where an unexpected vacancy must be filled.