516. Working with Ordained and Diaconal Ministers and Commissioned Personnel--1. To make and fix the appointments in the annual conferences, provisional annual conferences, and missions as the Discipline may direct (530-534).
2. To divide or to unite a circuit(s), station(s), or mission(s) as judged necessary for missional strategy and then to make appropriate appointments.
3. To read the appointments of deaconesses, diaconal ministers, lay persons in service under the World Division of the General Board of Global Ministries, and home missionaries.
4. To fix the charge conference membership of all ordained ministers appointed to ministries other than the local Church in keeping with 443.
5. To transfer, upon the request of the receiving bishop, clergy member(s) of one annual conference to another; provided said member(s) agrees to said transfer; and to send immediately to the secretaries of both conferences involved, to the conference boards of ordained ministry, and to the clearing house of the General Board of Pension and Health Benefits, written notices of the transfer of members and of their standing in the course of study if they are undergraduates.10
6. To appoint associate members, probationary members, or full members to attend any school, college, or theological seminary listed by the University Senate, or to participate in a program of Clinical Pastoral Education in a setting certified by the Association of Clinical Pastoral Educators. Such persons are not to be considered as appointments beyond the local Church.
10See Judicial Council Decisions 114, 254, 554.
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1992 Book of Discipline: ¶ 516
1996 United Methodist General Conference