How are episcopal area boundaries established?
The Book of Discipline gives the bishops in each area – known as the College of Bishops – the responsibility for establishing episcopal areas. An episcopal area can have one or more annual conferences. This authority is given in Paragraph 48 of the 2008 Book of Discipline and Judicial Council Decisions 517 and 735. This action by the South Central Jurisdiction College of Bishops designates the boundaries of the 10 episcopal areas allotted to the jurisdiction.
