Bishop John L. Hopkins was assigned to the Ohio East Area on September 1, 2004. He serves as chairperson for The United Methodist Church’s Connectional Table which brings together bishops, staff executives and officers of denominational agencies and representatives of ethnic caucuses and jurisdictions around the world to help guide the mission and ministries of the global church.

Prior to his assignment to the Ohio East Area, Hopkins served the Minnesota Area for eight years after being elected to the episcopacy in 1996. He has also served as pastor of The Methodist Temple in Evansville, Indiana; director of the North Indiana Conference Council on Ministries; campus minister at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana; and as pastor of a two-point charge in LaPorte, Indiana. Bishop Hopkins was instrumental in the formation of Operation Classroom in Sierra Leone and Liberia. His mission travel has also included Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Korea, China, Japan, and Mexico.

He holds a master of divinity from Yale Divinity School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University. Hopkins and his wife Elaine are the parents of three adult children Nathan, Zachary, and Benjamin and has two granddaughters.

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