Petition Text: 20557-CO-505-D

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Amend ¶505:

1. ...entitled to one additional bishop.; and provided further that the jurisdiction or central conference from which the president of the Council of Bishops is elected for the quadrennium shall be entitled to elect one additional bishop. At the completion of the quadrennium of service, the bishop who has served as council president, if not retiring, shall be assigned to residential and presidential supervision in a jurisdiction or central conference to be determined, with the consent of the bishop, by the Interjurisdictional Committee on Episcopacy (for a bishop elected by a jurisdiction) or Committee on Central Conference Affairs (for a bishop elected by a central conference), in accordance with ¶612.

3. This legislation shall take effect immediately upon adjournment of the 1992 General Conference ratification of a constitutional amendment creating the office of president of the Council of Bishops.

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Petition Text: 20557-CO-505-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference