Biography

The Baton Rouge District of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Church (South Central Jurisdiction) originated through the multi-denominational Methodist merger in 1939. Prior to 1939, the district was the Baton Rouge District of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

In 1940, the district reported 10,753 “total full members – active,” 26 pastoral charges, and 72 church buildings. The district consisted of congregations in southeast Louisiana stretching from Kentwood (north) to Gonzales (south) and Lottie (west) to Bogalusa (east).

Through the 1968 merger of two denominations – the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church – the Baton Rouge District of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Church (South Central Jurisdiction) became the Baton Rouge District of the Louisiana Conference A of the United Methodist Church (South Central Jurisdiction). In 1968, the district reported 23,258 “full members” and 77 “organized churches.”

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