Forgive my ignorance of Methodism, but can someone enlighten me? I read that my gggrandfather was made a Bishop of the United Methodist Church in1852 with Indianapolis as his Episcopal residence. He was Edward Raymond AMES, (born 20 May 1806 Amesville, Ohio; died 25 April 1879 at Baltimore, MD), he married Henrietta BEACH, on 1 January 1834 at Jeffersonville, Clark Co., Indiana, and their daughter was Annie E. AMES born 24 October 1835 at Jeffersonville, Indiana. I have never heard of Methodist bishop here in England (nor of a Methodist cathedral - surely a bishop has a cathedral?). Do they still exist, and if so is it an American phenomenon. Is there still a bishop at Jeffersonville? Or a cathedral? Richard Ames Brown