438. A pastor is an ordained or licensed person approved by vote of the clergy members in full connection, appointed by the bishop to be in charge of a station, circuit, cooperative parish, extension ministry, a federated church, or to a church of another denomination, or on the staff of one such appointment.29
29See Judicial Council Decision 555.
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1992 Book of Discipline: ¶ 438
1996 United Methodist General Conference