2016 Wesleyan Discipline:Ordained Ministers: Regulations for

3089. Regulations for an Ordained Minister.

(1) An ordained minister is amenable to the district where membership is held, and may be deposed from the ministry and ordered to surrender credentials by judicial process as set forth in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:5206–5212.

(2) An ordained minister’s credentials shall consist of the certificate of ordination (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3070:7; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:6300), and an annual pocket certificate of standing, issued and signed by the district secretary (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:6430).

(3) An ordained minister who fails to file the annual service report (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1402) for two successive years, shall be notified by the district board of ministerial development, and requested to report at the next session of the district conference. If no report is filed at that time the district shall declare the minister withdrawn and shall record the action upon the minutes of the district conference.

(4) When an ordained minister surrenders the certificate of ordination because guilty of an offense (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:3085:4), or is ordered to surrender it after due judicial process (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:5212:4), it shall be lawful to publish such fact in the columns of the official church publication.