Bishop from Alabama elected president of World Methodist Council

“The organization functions by looking at the commonalities we share and our common theology instead of focusing on differences.”

United Methodist Bishop Debra Wallace-Padgett, head of the North Alabama Conference, will leave that post on Sept. 1, 2024. United Methodist Bishop Debra Wallace-Padgett, head of the North Alabama Conference, was elected president of the World Methodist Council at its meeting this week in Sweden.

“The World Methodist Council is made up of 80 denominations from around the world that have emerged out of the Methodist movement started by John and Charles Wesley,” Clifton said. Over the past few years, Wallace-Padgett presided over the North Alabama Conference during a period of controversy that saw more than half the churches in the conference “disaffiliate,” or leave the denomination.

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