List of bishops of the United Methodist Church

This is a list of bishops of the United Methodist Church and its predecessor denominations, in order of their election to the episcopacy, both living and dead. == 1784–1807 == Founders Thomas Coke 1784 Francis Asbury 1784 Richard Whatcoat 1800 Philip William Otterbein 1800 Martin Boehm 1800 Jacob Albright 1807 == 1808–1825 == William McKendree 1808 Christian Newcomer 1813 Enoch George 1816 Robert Richford Roberts 1816 Andrew Zeller 1817 Joseph Hoffman 1821 Joshua Soule 1824 Elijah Hedding 1824 Henry Kumler Sr 1825 == 1826–1850 == John Emory 1832 James Osgood Andrew 1832 Samuel Heistand 1833 William Brown 1833 Beverly Waugh 1836 Thomas Asbury Morris 1836 Jacob Erb 1837 John Seybert 1839 Henry Kumler Jr 1841 John Coons 1841 Joseph Long 1843 Leonidas Lent Hamline 1844 Edmund Storer Janes 1844 John Russel 1845 Jacob John Glossbrenner 1845 William Hanby 1845 William Capers 1846 Robert Paine 1846 David Edwards 1849 Henry Bidleman Bascom 1850 == 1851–1875 == Levi Scott 1852 Matthew Simpson 1852 Osman Cleander Baker 1852 Edward Raymond Ames 1852 Lewis Davis 1853 George Foster Pierce 1854 John Early 1854 Hubbard Hinde Kavanaugh 1854 Francis Burns 1858 William Wagner Orwig 1859 Jacob Markwood 1861 Daniel Shuck 1861 John Jacob Esher 1863 Davis Wasgatt Clark 1864 Edward Thomson 1864 Calvin Kingsley 1864 Jonathan Weaver 1865 William May Wightman 1866 Enoch Mather Marvin 1866 David Seth Doggett 1866 Holland Nimmons McTyeire 1866 John Wright Roberts 1866 John Dickson 1869 John Christian Keener 1870 Reuben Yeakel 1871 Thomas Bowman 1872 William Logan Harris 1872 Randolph Sinks Foster 1872 Isaac William Wiley 1872 Stephen Mason Merrill 1872 Edward Gayer Andrews 1872 Gilbert Haven 1872 Jesse Truesdell Peck 1872 Rudolph Dubs 1875 Thomas Bowman 1875 == 1876–1900 == Milton Wright 1877 Nicholas Castle 1877 Beniah John Willis 1877 Henry White Warren 1880 Cyrus David Foss 1880 John Fletcher Hurst 1880 Erastus Otis Haven 1880 Ezekiel Boring Kephart 1881 Alpheus Waters Wilson 1882 Linus Parker 1882 John Cowper Granbery 1882 Robert Kennon Hargrove 1882 William Xavier Ninde 1884 John Morgan Walden 1884 Willard Francis Mallalieu 1884 Charles Henry Fowler 1884 William Taylor 1884 Daniel Kumler Flickinger 1885 William Wallace Duncan 1886 Charles Betts Galloway 1886 Eugene Russell Hendrix 1886 Joseph Stanton Key 1886 John Heyl Vincent 1888 James Newbury FitzGerald 1888 Isaac Wilson Joyce 1888 John Philip Newman 1888 Daniel Ayres Goodsell 1888 James Mills Thoburn 1888 James W. Hott 1889 Atticus Greene Haygood 1890 Oscar Penn Fitzgerald 1890 Wesley Matthias Stanford 1891 Christian S. Haman 1891 Sylvanus C. Breyfogel 1891 William Horn 1891 Job S. Mills 1893 Charles Cardwell McCabe 1896 Joseph Crane Hartzell 1896 Earl Cranston 1896 Warren Akin Candler 1898 Henry Clay Morrison 1898 David Hastings Moore 1900 John William Hamilton 1900 Edwin Wallace Parker 1900 Francis Wesley Warne 1900 == 1901–1912 == George Martin Mathews 1902 Alexander Coke Smith 1902 Elijah Embree Hoss 1902 Henry Burns Hartzler 1902 William Franklin Heil 1902 Joseph Flintoft Berry 1904 Henry Spellmeyer 1904 William Fraser McDowell 1904 James Whitford Bashford 1904 William Burt 1904 Luther Barton Wilson 1904 Thomas Benjamin Neely 1904 Isaiah Benjamin Scott 1904 William Fitzjames Oldham 1904 John Edward Robinson 1904 Merriman Colbert Harris 1904 William Marion Weekley 1905 William Mayes Willis 1905 William Melvin Bell 1905 Thomas Coke Carter 1905 John James Tigert III 1906 Seth Ward 1906 James Atkins 1906 Samuel P. Spreng 1907 William Franklin Anderson 1908 John Louis Nuelsen 1908 William Alfred Quayle 1908 Charles William Smith 1908 Wilson Seeley Lewis 1908 Edwin Holt Hughes 1908 Robert McIntyre 1908 Frank Milton Bristol 1908 Collins Denny 1910 John Carlisle Kilgo 1910 William Belton Murrah 1910 Walter Russell Lambuth 1910 Richard Green Waterhouse 1910 Edwin DuBose Mouzon 1910 James Henry McCoy 1910 William Hargrave Fouke 1910 Uriah Frantz Swengel 1910 Homer Clyde Stuntz 1912 William Orville Shepard 1912 Theodore Sommers Henderson 1912 Naphtali Luccock 1912 Francis John McConnell 1912 Frederick DeLand Leete 1912 Richard Joseph Cooke 1912 Wilbur Patterson Thirkield 1912 John Wesley Robinson 1912 William Perry Eveland 1912 == 1913–1925 == Henry Harness Fout 1913 Cyrus Jeffries Kephart 1913 Alfred Taylor Howard 1913 Gottlieb Heinmiller 1915 Lawrence Hoover Seager 1915 Herbert George Welch 1916 Thomas Nicholson 1916 Adna Wright Leonard 1916 Matthew Simpson Hughes 1916 Charles Bayard Mitchell 1916 Franklin Elmer Ellsworth Hamilton 1916 Alexander Priestly Camphor 1916 Eben Samuel Johnson 1916 William H. Washinger 1917 John Moore 1918 William Fletcher McMurry 1918 Urban Valentine Williams Darlington 1918 Horace Mellard DuBose 1918 William Newman Ainsworth 1918 James Cannon Jr 1918 Matthew T. Maze 1918 Lauress John Birney 1920 Frederick Bohn Fisher 1920 Charles Edward Locke 1920 Ernest Lynn Waldorf 1920 Edgar Blake 1920 Ernest Gladstone Richardson 1920 Charles Wesley Burns 1920 Harry Lester Smith 1920 George Harvey Bickley 1920 Frederick Thomas Keeney 1920 Charles Larew Mead 1920 Anton Bast 1920 Robert Elijah Jones 1920 Matthew Wesley Clair 1920 Arthur R. Clippinger 1921 William Benjamin Beauchamp 1922 James Edward Dickey 1922 Samuel Ross Hay 1922 Hoyt McWhorter Dobbs 1922 Hiram Abiff Boaz 1922 John Francis Dunlap 1922 George Amos Miller 1924 Titus Lowe 1924 George Richmond Grose 1924 Brenton Thoburn Badley 1924 Wallace Elias Brown 1924 Arthur Biggs Statton 1925 == 1926–1938 == John S. Stamm 1926 Samuel J. Umbreit 1926 Raymond J. Wade 1928 James Chamberlain Baker 1928 Edwin Ferdinand Lee 1928 Grant D. Batdorf 1929 Ira David Warner 1929 John W. Gowdy 1930 Chih Ping Wang 1930 Arthur James Moore 1930 Paul Bentley Kern 1930 Angie Frank Smith 1930 George Edward Epp 1930 Jashwant Rao Chitambar 1931 Juan Ermete Gattinoni 1932 Junius Ralph Magee 1932 Ralph Spaulding Cushman 1932 Elmer Wesley Praetorius 1934 Charles H. Stauffacher 1934 Jarrell Waskom Pickett 1935 Roberto Valenzuela Elphick 1936 Wilbur Emery Hammaker 1936 Charles Wesley Flint 1936 Garfield Bromley Oxnam 1936 Alexander Preston Shaw 1936 John McKendree Springer 1936 F. H. Otto Melle 1936 Ralph Ansel Ward 1937 Victor Otterbein Weidler 1938 Ivan Lee Holt 1938 William Walter Peele 1938 Clare Purcell 1938 Charles Claude Selecman 1938 John Lloyd Decell 1938 William Clyde Martin 1938 William Turner Watkins 1938 == 1939–1950 == James Henry Straughn 1939 John Calvin Broomfield 1939 William Alfred Carroll Hughes 1940 Lorenzo Houston King 1940 Bruce Richard Baxter 1940 Shot Kumar Mondol 1940 Clement Daniel Rockey 1941 Enrique Carlos Balloch 1941 Z. T. Kaung 1941 Wen Yuan Chen 1941 George Carleton Lacy 1941 Fred Lewis Dennis 1941 Dionisio Deista Alejandro 1944 Fred Pierce Corson 1944 Walter Earl Ledden 1944 Lewis Oliver Hartman 1944 Newell Snow Booth 1944 Willis Jefferson King 1944 Robert Nathaniel Brooks 1944 Edward Wendall Kelly 1944 William Angie Smith 1944 Paul Elliott Martin 1944 Costen Jordan Harrell 1944 Paul Neff Garber 1944 Charles Wesley Brashares 1944 Schuyler Edward Garth 1944 Arthur Frederick Wesley 1944 John Abdus Subhan 1945 John Balmer Showers 1945 August Theodor Arvidson 1946 Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer 1946 John Wesley Edward Bowen 1948 Lloyd Christ Wicke 1948 John Wesley Lord 1948 Dana Dawson 1948 Marvin Augustus Franklin 1948 Roy Hunter Short 1948 Richard Campbell Raines 1948 Marshall Russell Reed 1948 Harry Clifford Northcott 1948 Hazen Graff Werner 1948 Glenn Randall Phillips 1948 Gerald Hamilton Kennedy 1948 Donald Harvey Tippett 1948 Jose Labarrete Valencia 1948 Sante Uberto Barbieri 1949 Raymond LeRoy Archer 1950 David Thomas Gregory 1950 == 1951–1963 == Frederick Buckley Newell 1952 Edgar Amos Love 1952 Matthew Wesley Clair Jr.

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List of bishops of the United Methodist Church

This is a list of bishops of the United Methodist Church and its predecessor denominations, in order of their election to the episcopacy, both living and dead. == 1784–1807 == Founders Thomas Coke 1784 Francis Asbury 1784 Richard Whatcoat 1800 Philip William Otterbein 1800 Martin Boehm 1800 Jacob Albright 1807 == 1808–1825 == William McKendree 1808 Christian Newcomer 1813 Enoch George 1816 Robert Richford Roberts 1816 Andrew Zeller 1817 Joseph Hoffman 1821 Joshua Soule 1824 Elijah Hedding 1824 Henry Kumler Sr 1825 == 1826–1850 == John Emory 1832 James Osgood Andrew 1832 Samuel Heistand 1833 William Brown 1833 Beverly Waugh 1836 Thomas Asbury Morris 1836 Jacob Erb 1837 John Seybert 1839 Henry Kumler Jr 1841 John Coons 1841 Joseph Long 1843 Leonidas Lent Hamline 1844 Edmund Storer Janes 1844 John Russel 1845 Jacob John Glossbrenner 1845 William Hanby 1845 William Capers 1846 Robert Paine 1846 David Edwards 1849 Henry Bidleman Bascom 1850 == 1851–1875 == Levi Scott 1852 Matthew Simpson 1852 Osman Cleander Baker 1852 Edward Raymond Ames 1852 Lewis Davis 1853 George Foster Pierce 1854 John Early 1854 Hubbard Hinde Kavanaugh 1854 Francis Burns 1858 William Wagner Orwig 1859 Jacob Markwood 1861 Daniel Shuck 1861 John Jacob Esher 1863 Davis Wasgatt Clark 1864 Edward Thomson 1864 Calvin Kingsley 1864 Jonathan Weaver 1865 William May Wightman 1866 Enoch Mather Marvin 1866 David Seth Doggett 1866 Holland Nimmons McTyeire 1866 John Wright Roberts 1866 John Dickson 1869 John Christian Keener 1870 Reuben Yeakel 1871 Thomas Bowman 1872 William Logan Harris 1872 Randolph Sinks Foster 1872 Isaac William Wiley 1872 Stephen Mason Merrill 1872 Edward Gayer Andrews 1872 Gilbert Haven 1872 Jesse Truesdell Peck 1872 Rudolph Dubs 1875 Thomas Bowman 1875 == 1876–1900 == Milton Wright 1877 Nicholas Castle 1877 Beniah John Willis 1877 Henry White Warren 1880 Cyrus David Foss 1880 John Fletcher Hurst 1880 Erastus Otis Haven 1880 Ezekiel Boring Kephart 1881 Alpheus Waters Wilson 1882 Linus Parker 1882 John Cowper Granbery 1882 Robert Kennon Hargrove 1882 William Xavier Ninde 1884 John Morgan Walden 1884 Willard Francis Mallalieu 1884 Charles Henry Fowler 1884 William Taylor 1884 Daniel Kumler Flickinger 1885 William Wallace Duncan 1886 Charles Betts Galloway 1886 Eugene Russell Hendrix 1886 Joseph Stanton Key 1886 John Heyl Vincent 1888 James Newbury FitzGerald 1888 Isaac Wilson Joyce 1888 John Philip Newman 1888 Daniel Ayres Goodsell 1888 James Mills Thoburn 1888 James W. Hott 1889 Atticus Greene Haygood 1890 Oscar Penn Fitzgerald 1890 Wesley Matthias Stanford 1891 Christian S. Haman 1891 Sylvanus C. Breyfogel 1891 William Horn 1891 Job S. Mills 1893 Charles Cardwell McCabe 1896 Joseph Crane Hartzell 1896 Earl Cranston 1896 Warren Akin Candler 1898 Henry Clay Morrison 1898 David Hastings Moore 1900 John William Hamilton 1900 Edwin Wallace Parker 1900 Francis Wesley Warne 1900 == 1901–1912 == George Martin Mathews 1902 Alexander Coke Smith 1902 Elijah Embree Hoss 1902 Henry Burns Hartzler 1902 William Franklin Heil 1902 Joseph Flintoft Berry 1904 Henry Spellmeyer 1904 William Fraser McDowell 1904 James Whitford Bashford 1904 William Burt 1904 Luther Barton Wilson 1904 Thomas Benjamin Neely 1904 Isaiah Benjamin Scott 1904 William Fitzjames Oldham 1904 John Edward Robinson 1904 Merriman Colbert Harris 1904 William Marion Weekley 1905 William Mayes Willis 1905 William Melvin Bell 1905 Thomas Coke Carter 1905 John James Tigert III 1906 Seth Ward 1906 James Atkins 1906 Samuel P. Spreng 1907 William Franklin Anderson 1908 John Louis Nuelsen 1908 William Alfred Quayle 1908 Charles William Smith 1908 Wilson Seeley Lewis 1908 Edwin Holt Hughes 1908 Robert McIntyre 1908 Frank Milton Bristol 1908 Collins Denny 1910 John Carlisle Kilgo 1910 William Belton Murrah 1910 Walter Russell Lambuth 1910 Richard Green Waterhouse 1910 Edwin DuBose Mouzon 1910 James Henry McCoy 1910 William Hargrave Fouke 1910 Uriah Frantz Swengel 1910 Homer Clyde Stuntz 1912 William Orville Shepard 1912 Theodore Sommers Henderson 1912 Naphtali Luccock 1912 Francis John McConnell 1912 Frederick DeLand Leete 1912 Richard Joseph Cooke 1912 Wilbur Patterson Thirkield 1912 John Wesley Robinson 1912 William Perry Eveland 1912 == 1913–1925 == Henry Harness Fout 1913 Cyrus Jeffries Kephart 1913 Alfred Taylor Howard 1913 Gottlieb Heinmiller 1915 Lawrence Hoover Seager 1915 Herbert George Welch 1916 Thomas Nicholson 1916 Adna Wright Leonard 1916 Matthew Simpson Hughes 1916 Charles Bayard Mitchell 1916 Franklin Elmer Ellsworth Hamilton 1916 Alexander Priestly Camphor 1916 Eben Samuel Johnson 1916 William H. Washinger 1917 John Moore 1918 William Fletcher McMurry 1918 Urban Valentine Williams Darlington 1918 Horace Mellard DuBose 1918 William Newman Ainsworth 1918 James Cannon Jr 1918 Matthew T. Maze 1918 Lauress John Birney 1920 Frederick Bohn Fisher 1920 Charles Edward Locke 1920 Ernest Lynn Waldorf 1920 Edgar Blake 1920 Ernest Gladstone Richardson 1920 Charles Wesley Burns 1920 Harry Lester Smith 1920 George Harvey Bickley 1920 Frederick Thomas Keeney 1920 Charles Larew Mead 1920 Anton Bast 1920 Robert Elijah Jones 1920 Matthew Wesley Clair 1920 Arthur R. Clippinger 1921 William Benjamin Beauchamp 1922 James Edward Dickey 1922 Samuel Ross Hay 1922 Hoyt McWhorter Dobbs 1922 Hiram Abiff Boaz 1922 John Francis Dunlap 1922 George Amos Miller 1924 Titus Lowe 1924 George Richmond Grose 1924 Brenton Thoburn Badley 1924 Wallace Elias Brown 1924 Arthur Biggs Statton 1925 == 1926–1938 == John S. Stamm 1926 Samuel J. Umbreit 1926 Raymond J. Wade 1928 James Chamberlain Baker 1928 Edwin Ferdinand Lee 1928 Grant D. Batdorf 1929 Ira David Warner 1929 John W. Gowdy 1930 Chih Ping Wang 1930 Arthur James Moore 1930 Paul Bentley Kern 1930 Angie Frank Smith 1930 George Edward Epp 1930 Jashwant Rao Chitambar 1931 Juan Ermete Gattinoni 1932 Junius Ralph Magee 1932 Ralph Spaulding Cushman 1932 Elmer Wesley Praetorius 1934 Charles H. Stauffacher 1934 Jarrell Waskom Pickett 1935 Roberto Valenzuela Elphick 1936 Wilbur Emery Hammaker 1936 Charles Wesley Flint 1936 Garfield Bromley Oxnam 1936 Alexander Preston Shaw 1936 John McKendree Springer 1936 F. H. Otto Melle 1936 Ralph Ansel Ward 1937 Victor Otterbein Weidler 1938 Ivan Lee Holt 1938 William Walter Peele 1938 Clare Purcell 1938 Charles Claude Selecman 1938 John Lloyd Decell 1938 William Clyde Martin 1938 William Turner Watkins 1938 == 1939–1950 == James Henry Straughn 1939 John Calvin Broomfield 1939 William Alfred Carroll Hughes 1940 Lorenzo Houston King 1940 Bruce Richard Baxter 1940 Shot Kumar Mondol 1940 Clement Daniel Rockey 1941 Enrique Carlos Balloch 1941 Z. T. Kaung 1941 Wen Yuan Chen 1941 George Carleton Lacy 1941 Fred Lewis Dennis 1941 Dionisio Deista Alejandro 1944 Fred Pierce Corson 1944 Walter Earl Ledden 1944 Lewis Oliver Hartman 1944 Newell Snow Booth 1944 Willis Jefferson King 1944 Robert Nathaniel Brooks 1944 Edward Wendall Kelly 1944 William Angie Smith 1944 Paul Elliott Martin 1944 Costen Jordan Harrell 1944 Paul Neff Garber 1944 Charles Wesley Brashares 1944 Schuyler Edward Garth 1944 Arthur Frederick Wesley 1944 John Abdus Subhan 1945 John Balmer Showers 1945 August Theodor Arvidson 1946 Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer 1946 John Wesley Edward Bowen 1948 Lloyd Christ Wicke 1948 John Wesley Lord 1948 Dana Dawson 1948 Marvin Augustus Franklin 1948 Roy Hunter Short 1948 Richard Campbell Raines 1948 Marshall Russell Reed 1948 Harry Clifford Northcott 1948 Hazen Graff Werner 1948 Glenn Randall Phillips 1948 Gerald Hamilton Kennedy 1948 Donald Harvey Tippett 1948 Jose Labarrete Valencia 1948 Sante Uberto Barbieri 1949 Raymond LeRoy Archer 1950 David Thomas Gregory 1950 == 1951–1963 == Frederick Buckley Newell 1952 Edgar Amos Love 1952 Matthew Wesley Clair Jr.

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