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Philippines Central Conference (United Methodist Church)

The Philippines Central Conference of The United Methodist Church (or Kumperensya Sentral ng Pilipinas ng Nagkaisang Iglesya Metodista in Filipino) is a collections of Annual Conferences of The United Methodist Church located in the islands of the are organized into central conference, much like Jurisdictional Conferences in the United States. The Philippines Central Conference is considered as member church in World Methodist Council, independent from The United Methodist Church in the United States just like all UMC's in each countries around the world). It is also member church of the Christian Conference of Asia and National Council of Churches in the Philippines as "The United Methodist Church in the Philippines", representing the denomination as its Philippine counterpart.

The Philippines Central Conference is further subdivided into twenty-two (22) regions, called Annual Conference, under the authorities of three Episcopal Areas. These Annual conference is subdivided into "Districts," which provide further administrative functions for the operation of local churches in cooperation with each other, under the supervision of the District Superintendent. This structure is vital to Methodism, and is referred to as "connectionalism".

The Philippines Central Conference has an official membership of about 600,000, but it serves a much larger community of close to 1 million. From six annual conferences in 1968, The United Methodist Church in the Philippines has grown to 19 annual conferences located in three episcopal areas. And now, with 22 Annual conferences.