Episcopal Ministry
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. He served at-large, as did the M.E.C.,S. bishops.
When Methodist reunion took place in 1939, Bishop Peele was assigned the Richmond Episcopal Area, which at that time included 56 eastern counties of Virginia and North Carolina. He also spent a year as the president of the Council of Bishops of The Methodist Church.
Bishop Peele served as the Vice-President of the Board of Foreign Missions, and as Chairman of the Commission on Army and Navy Chaplains, of the Commission on Camp Activities, and of the Methodist Commission on Overseas Relief. He also served as the President of the North Carolina Council of Churches.
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