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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 L. 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. 1952
• John Warren Branscomb 1952
• Henry Bascom Watts 1952
• D. Stanley Coors 1952
• Edwin Edgar Voigt 1952
• Francis Gerald Ensley 1952
• Alsie Raymond Grant 1952
• Julio Manuel Sabanes 1952
• Friedrich Wunderlich 1953
• Odd Arthur Hagen 1953
• Ferdinand Sigg 1954
• Reuben Herbert Mueller 1954
• Harold Rickel Heininger 1954
• Lyle Lynden Baughman 1954
• Prince Albert Taylor, Jr. 1956
• Eugene Maxwell Frank 1956
• Nolan Bailey Harmon 1956
• Bachman Gladstone Hodge 1956
• Hobart Baumann Amstutz 1956
• Ralph Edward Dodge 1956
• Mangal Singh 1956
• Gabriel Sundaram 1956
• Paul Eugene Virgil Shannon 1957
• John Gordon Howard 1957
• Hermann Walter Kaebnickv 1958
• W. Maynard Sparks 1958
• Paul Murray Herrick 1958
• Bowman Foster Stockwell 1960
• Fred Garrigus Holloway 1960
• William Vernon Middleton 1960
• William Ralph Ward, Jr. 1960
• James Kenneth Mathews 1960
• Oliver Eugene Slater 1960
• William Kenneth Pope 1960
• Paul Vernon Galloway 1960
• Aubrey Grey Walton 1960
• Kenneth Wilford Copeland 1960
• Everett Walter Palmer 1960
• Ralph Taylor Alton 1960
• Edwin Ronald Garrison 1960
• Torney Otto Nall, Jr. 1960
• Charles Franklin Golden 1960
• Noah Watson Moore, Jr. 1960
• Marquis LaFayette Harris 1960
• James Walton Henley 1960
• Walter Clark Gum 1960
• Paul Hardin, Jr. 1960
• John Owen Smith 1960
• Paul William Milhouse 1960
• Pedro Ricardo Zottele 1962

1964–1975

• James Samuel Thomas 1964
• William McFerrin Stowe 1964
• Walter Kenneth Goodson 1964
• Dwight Ellsworth Loder 1964
• Robert Marvin Stuart 1964
• Edward Julian Pendergrass Jr 1964
• Thomas Marion Pryor 1964
• Homer Ellis Finger Jr 1964
• Earl Gladstone Hunt Jr 1964
• Francis Enmer Kearns 1964
• Lance Webb 1964
• Escrivao Anglaze Zunguze 1964
• Robert Fielden Lundy 1964
• Harry Peter Andreassen 1964
• John Wesley Shungu 1964
• Alfred Jacob Shaw 1965
• Prabhakar Christopher Benjamin Balaram 1965
• Stephen Trowen Nagbe 1965
• Franz Werner Schäfer 1966
• Benjamin I. Guansing 1967
• Lineunt Scott Allen 1967
• Paul Arthur Washburn 1968
• Carl Ernst Sommer 1968
• David Frederick Wertz 1968
• Alsie Henry Carleton 1968
• Roy Calvin Nichols 1968
• Arthur James Armstrong 1968 (resigned 1983)
• William Ragsdale Cannon 1968
• Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa 1968
• Cornelio M. Ferrer 1968
• Paul Locke A. Granadosin 1968
• Joseph R. Lance 1968
• Ram Dutt Joshi 1968
• Eric Algernon Mitchell 1969
• Federico Jose Pagura 1969
• Armin E. Haertel 1970
• Ole Edvard Borgen 1970
• Finis Alonzo Crutchfield, Jr. 1972
• Joseph Hughes Yeakel 1972
• Robert E. Goodrich Jr 1972
• Carl Julian Sanders 1972
• Ernest T. Dixon Jr 1972
• Don Wendell Holter 1972
• Wayne K. Clymer 1972
• Joel David McDavid 1972
• Edward Gonzalez Carroll 1972
• Jesse Robert DeWitt 1972
• James Mase Ault 1972
• John B. Warman 1972
• Mack B. Stokes 1972
• Jack Tuell 1972
• Melvin E. Wheatley Jr 1972
• Edward Lewis Tullis 1972
• Frank Lewis Robertson 1972
• Wilbur Wong Yan Choy 1972
• Robert McGrady Blackburn 1972
• Emilio J. M. de Carvalho 1972
• Fama Onema 1972
• Mamidi Elia Peter 1972
• Bennie de Quency Warner 1973

1976–1988

• J. Kenneth Shamblin 1976
• Alonzo Monk Bryan 1976
• Kenneth William Hicks 1976
• James Chess Lovern 1976
• Leroy Charles Hodapp 1976
• Edsel Albert Ammons 1976
• C. Dale White 1976
• Ngoy Kimba Wakadilo 1976
• Almeida Penicela 1976
• LaVerne D. Mercado 1976
• Hermann Ludwig Sticher 1977
• Shantu Kumar A. Parmar 1979
• Thomas Syla Bangura 1979
• John Alfred Ndoricimpa 1980
• William Talbot Handy Jr 1980
• John Wesley Hardt 1980
• Benjamin Ray Oliphint 1980
• Louis Wesley Schowengerdt 1980
• Melvin George Talbert 1980
• Paul Andrews Duffey 1980
• Edwin Charles Boulton 1980
• John William Russell 1980
• Fitz Herbert Skeete 1980
• George Willis Bashore 1980
• Roy Clyde Clark 1980
• William Boyd Grove 1980
• Emerson Stephen Colaw 1980
• Marjorie Matthews 1980
• Carlton Printess Minnick Jr 1980
• Calvin Dale McConnell 1980
• Kainda Katembo 1980
• Emerito P. Nacpil 1980
• Arthur Flumo Kulah 1980
• Late Bishop Dr. Karriappa Samuel is first Bishop of Methodist Church in India 1981
• Felton Edwin May 1984
• Ernest A. Fitzgerald 1984
• R. Kern Eutsler 1984
• J. Woodrow Hearn 1984
• Walter L. Underwood 1984
• Richard B. Wilke 1984
• J. Lloyd Knox 1984
• Neil L. Irons 1984
• Roy I. Sano 1984
• Lewis Bevel Jones III 1984
• Forrest C. Stith 1984
• Ernest W. Newman 1984
• Woodie W. White 1984
• Robert Crawley Morgan 1984
• David J. Lawson 1984
• Elias Gabriel Galvan 1984
• Rueben Philip Job 1984
• Leontine T. Kelly 1984
• Judith Craig 1984
• Rüdiger Rainer Minor 1986
• Eugenio Poma Anaguña 1986
• Jose Castro Gamboa Jr 1986
• Thomas Barber Stockton 1988
• Harold Hasbrouck Hughes Jr 1988
• Richard Carl Looney 1988
• Robert Hitchcock Spain 1988
• Susan Murch Morrison 1988
• R. Sheldon Duecker 1988
• Joseph Benjamin Bethea 1988
• William B. Oden 1988
• Bruce P. Blake 1988
• Charles Wilbourne Hancock 1988
• Clay Foster Lee Jr 1988
• Sharon A. Brown Christopher 1988
• Dan E. Solomon 1988
• William B. Lewis 1988
• William W. Dew Jr 1988
• Moises Domingos Fernandes 1988
• Joao Somane Machado 1988

1989–2000

• Walter Klaiber 1989
• Heinrich Bolleter 1989
• Hans Vaxby 1989
• Alfred Lloyd Norris 1992
• Joe Allen Wilson 1992
• Robert Eugene Fannin 1992
• Amelia Ann B. Sherer 1992
• Albert Frederick Mutti 1992
• Raymond Harold Owen 1992
• Joel Nestali Martinez 1992
• Donald Arthur Ott 1992
• Kenneth Lee Carder 1992
• Hae Jong Kim 1992 (resigned 2005)
• William Wesley Morris 1992
• Marshall Leroy Meadors Jr 1992
• Charles Wesley Jordan 1992
• Sharon Zimmerman Rader 1992
• S. Clifton Ives 1992
• Mary Ann Swenson 1992
• Done Peter Dabale 1992
• Joseph Christian Humper 1992
• Christopher Jokomo 1992
• Daniel C. Arichea Jr 1994
• G. Lindsey Davis 1996
• Joseph E. Pennel Jr 1996
• Charlene P. Kammerer 1996
• Alfred Johnson 1996
• Cornelius L. Henderson 1996
• Susan Wolfe Hassinger 1996
• J. Lawrence McCleskey 1996
• Ernest S. Lyght 1996
• Janice Riggle Huie 1996
• Marion M. Edwards 1996
• C. Joseph Sprague 1996
• Peter D. Weaver 1996
• Jonathan D. Keaton 1996
• Ray Chamberlain 1996
• John L. Hopkins 1996
• Michael J. Coyner 1996
• Edward W. Paup 1996 (resigned 2008 to accept General Secretariat of Board of Global Missions)
• Ntambo Nkulu Ntanda 1996
• Larry M. Goodpaster 2000
• Rhymes H. Moncure Jr 2000
• Beverly J. Shamana 2000
• Violet L. Fisher 2000
• Gregory V. Palmer 2000
• William W. Hutchinson 2000
• B. Michael Watson 2000
• D. Max Whitfield 2000
• Benjamin Roy Chamness 2000
• Linda Lee 2000
• James R. King 2000
• Bruce R. Ough 2000
• Warner H. Brown Jr 2000
• José Quipungo 2000
• Gaspar Joao Domingos 2000
• Leo A. Soriano 2000
• Benjamin A. Justo 2000
• John G. Innis 2000
• Carlos Intipampa 2000

2001–2007

• Timothy W. Whitaker 2001
• Øystein Olsen 2001
• Solito K. Toquero 2001
• Nélida (Nelly) Ritchie 2001
• Marcus Matthews 2004
• Sudarshana Devadhar 2004
• Jeremiah J. Park 2004
• Hope Morgan Ward 2004
• William H. Willimon 2004
• James E. Swanson Sr 2004
• Hee-soo Jung 2004
• Robert E. Hayes Jr 2004
• Alfred W. Gwinn Jr 2004
• John R. Schol 2004
• Richard J. Wills Jr 2004
• Robert C. Schnase 2004
• Deborah L. Kiesey 2004
• Jane Allen Middleton 2004
• Thomas J. Bickerton 2004
• Scott J. Jones 2004
• Charles N. Crutchfield 2004
• Robert T. Hoshibata 2004
• Mary Virginia Taylor 2004
• Sally Dyck 2004
• Minerva G. Carcaño 2004
• Eben K. Nhiwatiwa 2004
• Carlos Poma 2004
• Hans Växby 2005
• David Kekumba Yemba 2005
• Rosemarie Wenner 2005
• Benjamin Boni 2005
• Patrick Streiff 2005
• Daniel Wandabula 2006
• Kefas Kane Mavula 2007

Elected July 2008

• Paul Leeland 2008
• Peggy Johnson 2008
• W. Earl Bledsoe 2008
• John Michael Lowry 2008
• Julius C. Trimble 2008
• Grant J. Hagiya 2008
• Elaine J. W. Stanovsky 2008
• James Dorff 2008
• Joaquina Filipe Nhanala 2008
• Rodolfo Alfonso Juan 2008
• Lito Cabacungan Tangonan 2008
• John K. Yambasu 2008

Elected July 2012

• Jonathan Holston 2012
• Ken Carter 2012
• Sandra Steiner-Ball 2012
• Bill McAlilly 2012
• Deborah Wallace-Padgett 2012
• Martin McLee 2012
• Young Jin Cho 2012
• Cynthia Fierro Harvey 2012
• Mark Webb 2012
• Gary Mueller 2012
• Mike McKee 2012
• John Wesley Yohanna 2012

Elected July 2016

• Karen Oliveto 2016
• Tracy Smith Malone 2016
• Frank Beard 2016
• David Bard 2016
• Laurie Haller 2016
• Cynthia Moore-Koikoi 2016
• LaTrelle Easterling 2016
• Ruben Saenz, Jr. 2016
• James G. Nunn 2016
• Robert Farr 2016
• Sharma Lewis 2016
• David Graves 2016
• Leonard Fairley 2016
• Sue Haupert-Johnson 2016
• R. Lawson Bryan 2016
• Sharma D. Lewis 2016

See also

• Conferences of the United Methodist Church
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• Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops