They will start their year of office when the Representative Session of the Methodist Conference meets in Birmingham next year.
Rev Glasson, who is involved in a Methodist interfaith project in Bradford and works with people who have experienced abuse said it’s a privilege to be elected to serve as President.
“My interest is in enabling and honouring Connexional communities that are courageous and rooted in prayer,” she said.
“God is transforming the old and calling us into new things that are a joyful outcome of our Methodist inheritance. I believe that if the Church is authentic and inclusive it will also grow numerically and spiritually.”
Prof Marsh has taught in theological colleges and universities and is currently head of the University of Leicester’s Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning and an International Research Consultant at the Queen’s Foundation, a theological college.
On hearing of his election, he said: “I have a deep commitment to encouraging others in learning, no matter what their stage of life or what previous experience they have.
“My calling as a Methodist leads me to prompt people to think creatively about their life experience and the world around them, in developing a practical, theologically-informed faith.”
The role of President of the Methodist Conference is reserved for presbyters and that of Vice-President for lay people or Deacons.
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