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This is a chronological list of Presidents of the Methodist Conference. John Wesley, founder of Methodism, organised and presided over the first Methodist Conference, which was to become the Church's governing body. This article lists his successors, who are elected by the British Methodist Conference to serve a one-year term. Presidents follow Wesley's example in travelling the length and breadth of Great Britain, visiting and preaching in local Methodist chapels.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.methodist.org.uk/who-we-are/structure/the-president-and-vice-president )〕 Presidents also have an important role representing the Methodist Church in the wider world (notably appearing at the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall).〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jointpublicissues.org.uk/out-of-the-silence-the-cenotaph-on-remembrance-sunday/ )〕 The first century of British Methodism was characterised by multiple splits from the original Wesleyan Methodist Church. Other Methodist branches, such as the Primitive Methodist Church, Bible Christian Church and the Methodist New Connexion had their own Conferences and Presidents. The various streams of Methodism were re-united in 1932. == John Wesley and the early Methodist Conference == Methodism traces its roots to eighteenth century Anglican preacher John Wesley and, to a lesser extent, his brother Charles. The Wesley brothers began an evangelical revival within the Church of England. They adopted unconventional and controversial practices, such as open-air preaching, to reach factory labourers and newly urbanised masses uprooted from their traditional village culture at the start of the Industrial Revolution. Over time, John Wesley organised converts locally, founding Methodist "societies", organised into "circuits", and linked in a "Connexion". John and Charles Wesley, along with four other clergy and four lay preachers, met for consultation in London in 1744. This set a precedent for future conferences; subsequently, the annual conference became the ruling body of the Methodist movement. In 1773, John Wesley had designated John William Fletcher to be his successor, however he outlived Fletcher. In 1784 Wesley made provision for the governance of Methodism after his death through the ''Yearly Conference of the People called Methodists''. He nominated 100 people and declared them to be its members and laid down the method by which their successors were to be appointed. Wesley himself was the original president of the Methodist Conference, but after his death it was agreed that in future, so much authority would not be placed in the hands of one man. Instead, the President would be elected for one year only, to sit in Wesley's chair. A list of Wesley's early successors was produced by the Wesleyan Methodist Church, listing all Presidents up to 1890.〔(Wesley and his successors - a centenary memorial )〕 The ''My Methodist History'' website has compiled all Methodist presidents from the 1932 deed of union to 2000.〔(mymethodisthistory.org.uk Presidents of The Conference since 1932 ) Accessed 2 September 2014〕 and the ''My Primitive Methodist Ancestors'' site has collated the list for the Primitive Methodist presidents from their first conference up to union of 1932.〔(My Primitive Methodist Ancestors: Presidents of Conference. ) Accessed 2 September 2014〕 The gap in the Wesleyan records is filled from entries in the ''Methodist Who's Who'' of 1912〔(The Methodist Who's Who. 1912 ed. ) published by Charles H Kelly, London.〕 and the Wesleyan Historical Society ''Dictionary of Methodism''〔(Wesleyan Historical Society ''Dictionary of Methodism. ) Accessed 2 September 2014〕 The Methodist Church of Great Britain website has a list of Presidents (and lay Vice-Presidents) since 2000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.methodist.org.uk/who-we-are/structure/the-president-and-vice-president/list-of-past-presidents-and-vice-presidents )〕 Additional information on twentieth century Presidents is provided by the Manchester University's ''Methodist Archives and Research Centre''.〔(The Methodist Archives Biographical Index ), The John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester Archive Accessions, 1977–2011〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Presidents of the Methodist Conference」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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