Council of Bishops announces UMC Constitutional Amendments voting results

The United Methodist Council of Bishops announced that only 5 of 32 amendments to the church’s constitution passed by the 2008 General Conference have been ratified by the annual conferences. The ratified amendments will become effective immediately. (NOTE: The United Methodist Constitution is Part I of the United Methodist Book of Discipline.)

The process for amending the Constitution of The United Methodist Church requires a two-thirds majority vote of General Conference delegates. Annual conferences (the 62 U.S. annual conferences and the 73 conferences in Africa, Europe and Asia) must then ratify the amendments by a two-thirds affirmative vote. In other words, if at least 66.6 percent of all votes from all Annual Conferences combined are in the affirmative, the amendment is ratified. The results of the voting are reported to the Council on Bishops, where they are verified and counted. The results are then reviewed and certified by the Council of Bishops.

Members of the 2009 North Alabama Conference took part in this process and voted on the Amendments last June.

The vote counts for each of the amendments were as follows:


Click here to see the description and rational for these Constitutional Amendments made available before the vote at 2009 North Alabama Annual Conference.

Click here to review how the 2009 North Alabama Conference members voted on these Amendments.

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