CHAPTER IX MISSIONARY BISHOPS ¶ 182, § 1. A Missionary Bishop is a Bishop elected for a specified Foreign Mission field, with full Episcopal powers, but with Episcopal jurisdiction limited to the Foreign Mission field for which he was elected. § 2. When two or more Missionary Bishops are located in the same Foreign Mission field they shall be coördinate with one another. ¶ 183. A Missionary Bishop is not, in the meaning of the Discipline, a General Superintendent. ¶ 184. A Missionary Bishop is not subordinate to the General Superintendents, but is coördinate with them in authority in the field to which he is appointed. In the practical application of this coördinate authority, when the General Superintendents are making their assignments to the Conferences, any Missionary Bishop who may be in the United States shall sit with them when his field is under consideration; and arrangements shall be made so that once in every quadrennium, and not oftener unless a serious emergency arises, every Mission over which a Missionary Bishop has jurisdiction shall be administered conjointly by a General Superintendent and the Missionary Bishop. In case of a difference of judgment the existing status shall continue, unless overruled by the General Superintendents, who shall have power to decide finally. ¶ 185. The names of the Missionary Bishops shall be printed below the names of the Bishops under the title of "Missionary Bishops" in the Hymnal and Book of Discipline. ¶ 186. A Missionary Bishop is amenable for his conduct to the General Conference, as is a General Superintendent. 187. The election of a Missionary Bishop carries with it his assignment to a specified Foreign Mission field, and such Bishop cannot be made a General Superintendent except by a distinct election to that office. ¶ 188. A Missionary Bishop shall receive his support from the Board of Foreign Missions. ¶ 189. A Missionary Bishop shall be ex officio a member of the General Missionary Committee, and shall, in his field, coöperate with the Board of Foreign Missions of the Church in the same way in which a General Superintendent coöperates in a Foreign Mission field over which he has Episcopal charge. ¶ 190. When a Missionary Bishop, by death or other cause, ceases to perform Episcopal duty for the foreign field to which he was assigned by the General Conference, the General Superintendents shall at once take supervision of said field. ¶ 191. The transfer of a Preacher from a field within the jurisdiction of a Missionary Bishop to a Conference under the Episcopal supervision of a General Superintendent, or from a Conference under the Episcopal Supervision of a General Superintendent to a field within the jurisdiction of a Missionary Bishop, shall require mutual agreement between the two Bishops; and a similar agreement shall be required between the two Bishops having charge when the proposed transfer is between two Foreign fields over which there are Missionary Bishops. CHAPTER X I. Constituted ¶ 192. A Bishop is to be constituted by the election of the General Conference and the laying on of the hands of three Bishops, or at least of one Bishop and two Elders. 193. If by death, or otherwise, there be no Bishop remaining in our Church, the General Conference shall elect a Bishop, and the Elders, or any three of them, who shall be appointed by the General Conference for that purpose, shall consecrate him according to the Ritual. II. Duties ¶ 194. The duties of a Bishop are: § 1. To preside in the Annual Conferences. § 2. To form the Districts according to his judgment. § 3. To fix the appointments of the Preachers under the following provisions and limitations: 1. He shall appoint the Preachers to the Pastoral · Charges annually. 2. He shall not allow a District Superintendent to preside in the same District more than six consecutive years, nor more than six years in any consecutive twelve. Nevertheless, if in any case the term of six years shall expire in the interval between the sessions of the Annual Conference he may continue him until the next session, provided the time shall not be more than six months. But District Superintendents in either Missions or Mission Conferences in foreign lands may be appointed to the same District for more than six consecutive years. 3. He annually: may make the following appointments (1) The Corresponding Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries of our Connectional Benevolent Societies and Boards. (2) The Publishing Agents at New York and Cincinnati. (3) The Editors and Assistant Editors at New York, Syracuse, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago, Kansas City, San Francisco, Portland, and New Orleans, and the Editor of Zion's Herald. (4) Chaplains to Prisons, to Reformatory, Sanitary, or Charitable Institutions, and in the Army and Navy. (5) Preachers for the special benefit of Sea men. (6) Ministers in the service of the American Bible Society, or of any State Bible Society auxiliary thereto; or of the Sunday School League of America. (7) The Presidents, Principals, and Teachers of institutions of learning which are under our care. (8) The Secretaries and Superintendents of City Missions. 4. He may, if requested by an Annual Conference appoint (1) An Agent to travel throughout such Con ference for the purpose of distributing Tracts. (2) An Agent or Agents to promote the cause of Temperance. (3) Instructors in Institutions of Learning not under our care. (4) An Agent or Agents for the benefit of our Institutions of Learning. (5) An Agent for the German Publishing (6) Agents for other benevolent institutions. published in the interest of the Methodist (8) One or more Members of an Annual Conference to do evangelistic work on Charges within that Conference, if invited by their Pastors and in coöperation with them; or in neglected territory within any District, when requested by, and in coöperation with, the District Superintendent of such District; provided, the Conference shall determine by vote how many of its members may be thus appointed; and provided, further, that the said Annual Conference shall by vote of two thirds of its members present and voting request such appointment. § 4. To fix within their own Conferences the Quarterly Conference membership of all Ministers ap |