Mary Virginia Taylor
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Mary Virginia Taylor is a bishop
in The United Methodist Church
in the U.S.
, serving the South Carolina Conference. She was Elected in 2004 on the 34th ballot, receiving 354 of 549 votes cast at the Southeastern Juridictional Conference. She was endorsed by the Holston Conference delegation.
She is married to Rev. James Russell "Rusty" Taylor, an elder in the South Carolina Conference, has two daughters, Mandy Taylor Young, and Mary Tiffany Taylor, and one granddaughter (b. September 18, 2009).
Ordained deacon
1974 and ordained elder 1976 in the Holston Annual Conference, "Dindy," as she is sometimes known, served at churches in Athens, Knoxville, Gray, Bluff City, Kingsport, and
Chattanooga, Tennessee before being appointed Cleveland District Superintendent
in 1999.
Bishop
A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
in The United Methodist Church
United Methodist Church
The United Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination which is both mainline Protestant and evangelical. Founded in 1968 by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley...
in the U.S.
United States
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, serving the South Carolina Conference. She was Elected in 2004 on the 34th ballot, receiving 354 of 549 votes cast at the Southeastern Juridictional Conference. She was endorsed by the Holston Conference delegation.
She is married to Rev. James Russell "Rusty" Taylor, an elder in the South Carolina Conference, has two daughters, Mandy Taylor Young, and Mary Tiffany Taylor, and one granddaughter (b. September 18, 2009).
Ordained deacon
Deacon
Deacon is a ministry in the Christian Church that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions...
1974 and ordained elder 1976 in the Holston Annual Conference, "Dindy," as she is sometimes known, served at churches in Athens, Knoxville, Gray, Bluff City, Kingsport, and
Chattanooga, Tennessee before being appointed Cleveland District Superintendent
District Superintendent (United Methodist Church)
A District Superintendent, often abbreviated D.S., in the United Methodist Church is a clergyperson who serves in a supervisory position over a geographic District of churches providing spiritual and administrative leadership to those churches and their pastors...
in 1999.