2016 Wesleyan Discipline: District Superintendent: Amenability

(1) The right to take charge of all the ministers and churches within its bounds, as modified by 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:360:3e and 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:365 (except those serving the General Church as the General Conference shall define who shall be amenable to the General Board of Administration, and except the district superintendent who shall be amenable to the General Board of Administration), and subject to the right of the ministers and churches to enter into pastoral engagements.

1307. Amenability. The district superintendent is amenable, as provided in the constitution, to the General Board (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:323:1). The district superintendent may be removed from office by the General Board, by a two-thirds majority vote of all its members, for cause or whenever the General Board deems it necessary for the best interests of the Church or the preservation of the district (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1655:37, 40a).