Meet Our Bishop

Bishop Tracy S. Malone

Bishop Tracy S. Malone has been assigned as the resident bishop for the Indiana Conference of The United Methodist Church, effective September 1, 2024. She was elected to the episcopacy at the 2016 North Central Jurisdictional Conference and has served as the resident bishop of the East Ohio Conference ever since.

She also is currently the president of the Council of Bishops, president of the General Commission on the Status and Role of Women, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Africa University. She pastored several churches in the Northern Illinois Conference, represented that Conference at four General and Jurisdictional Conferences, served as a district superintendent, and has been dean of the Cabinet.

Malone received a bachelor’s degree from the North Central College in Naperville, IL; a master of divinity degree from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL; and a doctorate of ministry from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH. Bishop Malone and her husband, Derrick, have two daughters.

Bishop Malone will begin serving with us in the Indiana Conference on Sept. 1, 2024.

View a video welcome by Bishop Malone here!

Let us welcome Bishop Malone with open arms and open hearts!

Bishop Malone