UM News, the United Methodist Church's own official news service, reporting the Council of Bishops' 5 November 2025 announcement that the denomination's worldwide regionalization amendments had been ratified by 91.6 percent of annual conference voters, restructuring the church into nine regional conferences of equal standing.
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Reliability Tier2
The denomination's own official news service reporting its own governing body's certification of a vote, tier 2 for a primary institutional account, corroborated by Baptist News Global's independent report below. NotesUsed for the ratification date, the vote percentage and the structure of the nine regional conferences.
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PublisherUM News
Publication Year2025
URLhttps://www.umnews.org/en/news/new-united-methodist-church-structure-ratified
Source Typechurch body
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