The Third Annual Conference of the Methodist Church The Gambia held at Bethel Methodist Church on Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday 16, 17 and 19 February 2011, elected a Gambian, the Reverend Hannah Caroline Faal-Heim to succeed Professor The Right Reverend Dr William Peter Stephens as Bishop in 2012.
The last Gambian to lead the Church was the Reverend Ernest Stafford (from 1983 to 1988) when the Church was still an Overseas District of the British Church, as had been the case for one 108 years until it became autonomous in 2009.
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