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52. Article V.--The bishops shall have residential and presidential supervision in the jurisdictional or central conferences71 in which they are elected or to which they are transferred. Bishops may be transferred from one jurisdiction to another jurisdiction for presidential and residential supervision under the following conditions: (1)The transfer of bishops may be on either of two bases:(a) a jurisdiction which receives a bishop by transfer from another jurisdiction may transfer to that jurisdiction or to a third jurisdiction one of its own bishops eligible for transfer, so that the number transferred in by each jurisdiction shall be balanced by the number transferred out, or (b) a jurisdiction may receive a bishop from another jurisdiction and not transfer out a member of its own College of Bishops. (2) No bishop shall be transferred unless that bishop shall have specifically consented. (3) No bishop shall be eligible for transfer unless the bishop shall have served one quadrennium in the jurisdiction which elected the bishop to the episcopacy. (4) All such transfers shall require the approval by a majority vote of the members, present and voting, of the jurisdictional committees on episcopacy of the jurisdictions which are involved. After the above procedures have been followed, the transferring bishop shall become a member of the receiving College of Bishops and shall be subject to residential assignment by that jurisdictional conference.
A bishop may be assigned by the Council of Bishops for presidential service or other temporary service in another jurisdiction than that which elected the bishop, provided the request is made by a majority of the bishops in the jurisdiction of the proposed service.
In the case of an emergency in any jurisdiction or central conference through the death or disability of a bishop or other cause, the Council of Bishops may assign a bishop from another jurisdiction or central conference to the work of the said jurisdiction or Central Conference with the consent of a majority of the bishops of that jurisdiction or central conference.
71Amended 1980.
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1992 Book of Discipline: ¶ 52
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