The North Texas Conference is an Annual Conference (a regional episcopal area of the United Methodist Church). This conference encompasses a triangle-shaped northern portion of the state of Texas that spans from Dallas to Wichita Falls to Paris. The conference includes a small geographic area relative to most annual conferences. At the end of 2006, it ranked 18th of 63 in membership and 22nd of 63 in worship attendance for U.S. Conferences.
Administrative offices are located in Plano, Texas. It is part of the Southcentral Jurisdictional Conference. On September 1, 2008, Bishop Earl Bledsoe began leading the conference.
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