Most Recent Decisions

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Title Date
Type
456 Financial Responsibility of an Annual Conference for Unpaid Pastoral Salary and Unpaid Benevolence Apportionments When a Congregation is Discontinued as a United Methodist Church. April 26, 1979 Decision
455 The Right of an Annual Conference to Include in the Ministerial Support Apportionment Items not Specified in Pars. 929 and 930 of the Discipline. April 26, 1979 Decision
453 Apparent Conflict Between Discipline Par. 2201 and Report 28 of the 1976 Daily Christian Advocate as to the Timing of the Implementation of the Report of the Study Committee on Native American Ministries. April 26, 1979 Decision
452 Request of the General Council on Ministries for a Ruling on the Constitutionality of Pars. 632.1 and 620.1 of the Discipline Regarding Election of the Jurisdictional Committees on Episcopacy and the Interjurisdictional Committee on the Episcopacy in View of Par. 55 of the Constitution. April 26, 1979 Decision
451 Constitutionality of Discipline Par. 804.1 as it Relates to the Number of Basic Members of the General Boards Elected by Each Jurisdiction. April 26, 1979 Decision
450 Application of Par. 433 (Leave of Absence) to Probationary Members of the Annual Conference. April 26, 1979 Decision
449 The Austrian Provisional Annual Conference voted that the minister in question could not be retired April 26, 1979 Memorandum
448 Right of Missionary Conferences to Ordain Ministers and forms of Ministerial Membership of Missionary Conferences. October 26, 1978 Decision
447 The Authority of the Jurisdictional Conference to Cause Union, Merger, Division or Dissolution of an Annual Conference Without Consent of Each Annual Conference Affected by Such Action. October 26, 1978 Decision
446 The Constitutionality of the Disciplinary Requirements for One-Third Laywomen, One-Third Laymen, and One-Third Clergy Representation on Annual Conference and General Church Agencies. October 26, 1978 Decision
445 Request from the Council of Bishops for a Declaratory Decision on the Constitutionality of Discipline Par. 1316.5, in the Light of Section II, Article IV.6 of the Constitution (Par. 15). October 26, 1978 Decision
444 Request from the Louisville Annual Conference for a Declaratory Decision as to the Application of Discipline Par. 413.1 to Fully Ordained, Credentialed Ministers from Other Churches, and Whether Par. 426.2 Provides for Recognition of Elders Orders or their Equivalent Counterpart in Other Christian Churches Simultaneous with Reception of Such Candidates into Probationary or Associate Membership in the Annual Conference. October 26, 1978 Decision

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