District Superintendent (United Methodist Church)

District Superintendent (United Methodist Church)

A District Superintendent in the United Methodist Church is a clergyperson who serves in a supervisory position over a geographic "District" of churches (varying in size) providing spiritual and administrative leadership to those churches and their pastors. According to the "Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church", cquote|The offices of "bishop" and "district superintendent" exist in The United Methodist Church as particular ministries for which persons are elected or selected from the group of elders who are ordained to be ministers of Word, Sacrament, and Order and thereby participate in the ministry of Christ, in sharing a royal priesthood which has aspostolic roots (I Peter 2:9; John 21:15-17; Acts 20:28; I Peter 5:2-3; I Timothy 3:1-7). "The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church: Section II. Offices of Bishop and District Superintendent - ¶ 503" (retrieved 23 May 2007).] District Superintendents were once called "Presiding Elders" in United Methodist Churches, and still are in other Methodist denominations. [cite web|url = http://www.amec3000.org/ | title = Church Global Directory|publisher = The African Methodist Episcopal Church|accessdate = 2007-05-23]

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