Every four years United Methodist Church bishops serving in the United States are assigned to the episcopal areas they will
serve by jurisdictional committees on the episcopacy. Those assignments begin September 1 and are for the four-year quadrennium until the next jurisdictional conference.
At the 2024 North Central Jurisdictional Conference held in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, July 10-13:
- Bishop Tracy S. Malone was assigned to serve the Indiana Conference.
- Bishop Hee-Soo Jung was assigned to serve the new Ohio Episcopal Area
The Ohio Episcopal Area was one of two new areas created by action of the special session of the North Central Jurisdictional Conference held in January 2024. Bishop Jung will serve the new Ohio Episcopal Area which will be comprised of both the East Ohio Conference and the West Ohio Conference of The United Methodist Church. Each conference will remain its own entity with its own staff, own vision for how to live into the mission of The UMC, and its own mission fields.
