UM News, the United Methodist Church's own official news service, on the Methodist Church's General Conference vote of 4 May 1956 in Minneapolis, which added one sentence to the Book of Discipline extending every paragraph governing ordained ministry to women as well as men, granting full clergy rights, guaranteed appointment and pension standing. The United Methodist Church, formed by the 1968 merger of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, inherited this practice unbroken.
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The denomination's own official news service reporting its own predecessor body's General Conference action, the strongest available source for the date the practice itself was adopted. Corroborated against the denomination's own umc.org "Ask the UMC" institutional history page before citing. NotesCited for the 4 May 1956 General Conference vote date, held by the Methodist Church, the United Methodist Church's direct predecessor before the 1968 EUB merger.
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PublisherUM News (The United Methodist Church)
URLhttps://www.umnews.org/en/news/why-the-1956-women-clergy-vote-matters
Source TypeOfficial denominational history
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Source Why the 1956 Women-Clergy Vote Matters (UM News)
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