DENVER \u2013 Complaints have been filed against Bishop Melvin G. Talbert alleging he has violated the sacred trust of his office. \u00a0Acting in accordance with United Methodist church law, a supervisory response has been initiated by Bishop Elaine Stanovsky of Denver.<\/p>\n
The Council of Bishops requested that complaints be filed against Bishop Talbert, of Nashville, Tenn., after he performed an October wedding for two men in Alabama. \u00a0The bishop of the region, Debra Wallace-Padgett, had asked him not to perform the ceremony. \u00a0The Executive Committee of the Council of Bishops also made this request.<\/p>\n
Bishop Stanovsky, president of the Western Jurisdiction College of Bishops, has been assigned to guide the confidential supervisory process according to the provisions of the Church\u2019s Book of Discipline. \u00a0Bishop Talbert is a member of the Western Jurisdiction, where he served before his retirement in 2000. Church law requires that complaints against bishops be heard in the jurisdiction where the bishop is a member.<\/p>\n
[pull_quote_right]We need the whole Church to respect the supervisory process and uphold it in prayer.\u00a0Everyone involved takes their role very seriously and is working for a just, healing and faithful outcome.[\/pull_quote_right]The supervisory response is a review of the bishop\u2019s ministry which \u201cshall be directed toward a just resolution\u201d of the complaint. \u00a0The supervisory team consists of two bishops working in consultation with one clergy and one lay member of the jurisdictional committee on episcopacy.<\/p>\n
The supervisory team carefully maintains the confidentiality of the supervisory response, as guided by the Book of Discipline. \u00a0\u201cWe find that confidentiality protects the integrity of the process and provides the best hope of the parties reaching a just resolution and offering healing to the Church,\u201d Bishop Stanovsky said. \u00a0\u201cWe need the whole Church to respect the supervisory process and uphold it in prayer.\u00a0Everyone involved takes their role very seriously and is working for a just, healing and faithful outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Condensation of Information About the UMC Complaint Process<\/a> Contact:<\/strong> Rev. Steve Goodier | 303-389-9456 DENVER \u2013 Complaints have been filed against Bishop Melvin G. Talbert alleging he has violated the sacred trust of his office. \u00a0Acting in accordance with United Methodist church law, a supervisory response has been initiated by Bishop Elaine Stanovsky of Denver. The Council of Bishops requested that complaints be filed against Bishop Talbert, of Nashville, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":6644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-wj-news"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Bishop-talbert-240.jpg?fit=1280%2C652&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l75j-1J9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6646,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6643\/revisions\/6646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\u00b6 363. Complaint Procedures<\/a>
\n\u00b6 413. Complaints Against Bishops<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nPhoto Caption:<\/strong> (From left) Bishops Roy I. Sano, Melvin G. Talbert, and Grant J. Hagiya serve communion during a Memorial Service at the 2012 Western Jurisdictional Conference. Photo by Patrick Scriven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"