Decision Number 182

Decision

It is the decision of the Judicial Council that the action of the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference in assigning Bishop Newell S. Booth for episcopal supervision within the Africa Central Conference is constitutional and valid.

It is also our decision that the action of the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference in granting authority to its Quadrennial Committee on Episcopacy to determine when the Africa Central Conference may elect a bishop, and to determine that Bishop Newell S. Booth shall be reassigned to another Episcopal area, is invalid because it is based on that part of an enabling act of the General Conference which is unconstitutional.