List of bishops of the United Methodist Church

This is a list of bishops of the United Methodist Church and its predecessor denominations, in order of their election to the episcopacy . Thomas Coke was the first bishop elected to the episcopacy . John Emory 1832 James Osgood Andrew 1832 Samuel Heistand 1833 William Brown 1833 Beverly Waugh 1836 Thomas Asbury Morris 1836 Jacob Erb John Seybert 1839 Henry Kumler Jr 1841 John Coons 1841 Joseph Long 1843 Leonidas Lent Hamline 1844 Edmund Storer Janes 1844 John Russel Jacob John Glossbrenner 1845 William Hanby 1845 William Capers 1846 David Edwards 1849 Henry Bidleman Bascom 1850 . Levi Scott 1852 Matthew Simpson 1852 Osman Cleander Baker 1852 Edward Raymond Ames 1852 Lewis Davis 1853 George Foster Pierce 1854 John Early 1854 Hubbard Hinde Kavanaugh 1854 Francis Burns Harness William Wagner Orwig 1859 Jacob Markwood 1861 Daniel Shuck 1861 John Jacob Esher Wight Davis Wasgatt Clark 1864 Calvin Kingsley 1913 Herbert George Welch 1916 John Franklin Anderson 1908 John Franklin Anderson 1907 .