November 12, 2022

Bishop Cedrick Bridgeforth, a United Methodist elder in the California-Pacific Conference, embraces his husband, Christopher Hucks-Ortiz, after his election was announced on Nov. 4, 2022, at Christ United Methodist Church in Salt Lake City. Bridgeforth, who will lead churches in the Greater Northwest Area, said he has always worked across ideological lines in his work in church administration and would continue to do so. (Patrick Scriven/United Methodist News via AP)