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3 unusual facts about General conference


General conference

SDARM General Conference, the governing authority for the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement denomination

General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the world governing body of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

General Conference Mennonite Church, an association of Mennonite congregations based in North America from 1860 to 2002


Ellen G. White Estate

Based at the General Conference in Silver Spring, Maryland, with which it works closely, the White Estate has branch offices and research centers at Adventist universities and colleges around the world.

Franklin S. Harris

In the early 1950s Harris worked in Iran, where he served as the president of the LDS Church branch headquartered in Tehran, as reported in the October 1951 general conference.

Helaman

LDS leader Richard J. Maynes cited this entire episode in a General Conference as containing good examples of covenant-keeping behavior.

Questions on Doctrine

Prior to the event, General Conference administrators including incumbent president Jan Paulsen had voiced reservations and even outright opposition to the conference, fearing that it might reignite a firestorm of controversy within the denomination.

Université Adventiste d'Haïti

Authorized to offer the Baccalaureate degree by the Ministry of Education in 1959, in 1964 it was granted General Conference authorization to offer two-year postsecondary work.


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Francis Burns

The 1856 General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church made provision for the first time for the election and consecration of a Missionary Bishop (for the African work).

Katalin

Katalin Bogyay is the President of the General Conference of UNESCO (2011–2013) and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Delegate of Hungary to UNESCO (2009-).

Katalin Bogyay

On 5 November 2013 the General Conference elected Hao Ping, the Vice-Minister of Education of China as President of UNESCO's 37th General Conference.

Neal C. Wilson

Neal C. Wilson's son, Ted N. C. Wilson, would follow his father's footsteps and is the current president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

Neil Wilson

Neal C. Wilson, General Conference president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1979–1990

North American Baptist Conference

The General Conference of German Baptist Churches in North America was formed in 1865 at Wilmot, Ontario, and meets every three years for fellowship and to conduct business.

Orani João Tempesta

On 13 October 2004 he became Archbishop of Belém do Pará, and in 2007 was a delegate to the Fifth General Conference of the Bishops of Latin American and the Caribbean.

Philip Schaff

He was one of the founders, and honorary secretary, of the American branch of the Evangelical Alliance, and was sent to Europe in 1869, 1872, and 1873 to arrange for the general conference of the Alliance, which, after two postponements on account of the Franco-Prussian War, was held in New York in October 1873.

Robert S. Folkenberg

Robert Stanley Folkenberg, (born January 1, 1941 in Santurce, Puerto Rico), served as General Conference president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1990 through to his resignation in 1999.

Samuel Stagg

He moved to Manila, the Philippine Islands in 1923, and became the pastor of the Central Church (on San Luis Street - now Kalaw Avenue, Malate, Manila), affiliated with the General Conference of the Methodist Church of America.

Thomas Andrew Murray Kirk

In 1952 Kirk was a Canadian delegate to the Seventh General Conference of UNESCO in Paris.

Vashti Murphy McKenzie

At this General Conference, she was reappointed to serve as the presiding prelate of the 10th Episcopal District, serving major cities such as Fort Worth, Waco, Dallas, Tyler, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and Galveston, Texas; in the Northwest, North, Southwest, and Texas Annual Conferences.

William Clyde Martin

Martin was elected a delegate to the Methodist Episcopal Church South General Conference in 1938.

William Spicer

William A. Spicer (1865–1952), Seventh-day Adventist minister and president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

William Walter Peele

William Walter Peele was elected a bishop of the M.E. Church, S. at the 1938 General Conference meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, one of eight bishops elected at that final General Conference of this denomination.

Windhoek Declaration

The Declaration was produced at a UNESCO seminar, "Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Press," held in Windhoek, Namibia, from April 29 to May 3, 1991; it was later endorsed by the UNESCO General Conference.

Winebrenner

John Winebrenner, founder of the Churches of God General Conference