The Northern Illinois Conference is an Annual Conference (regional episcopal area, similar to a diocese) of the United Methodist Church. This conference serves the northern portion of the state of Illinois, with its administrative offices and the office of the bishop being in the Chicago Temple Building in Chicago, Illinois. It is part of the North Central Jurisdictional Conference.[1] The current bishop is Sally Dyck.

Mission

Districts

The Northern Illinois Annual Conference is further subdivided into 6 smaller regions, called "districts", which provide further administrative functions for the operation of local churches in cooperation with each other. This structure is vital to Methodism, and is referred to as connectionalism. The Districts that comprise the Northern Illinois Conference are:

  • Aurora[2]
  • Chicago Northwestern
  • Chicago Southern
  • Elgin[3]
  • DeKalb
  • Rockford

Conference Boundaries

Institutions of Higher Learning

The Northern Illinois Conference supports and is host to three institutions of higher learning:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Conference Offices". UMC Regional Offices. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  2. ↑ "Northern Illinois Conference - Aurora District". Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ↑ "Northern Illinois Conference - Elgin District". Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)


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