A District Superintendent in the United Methodist Church is a clergyperson who serves in a supervisory position over a geographic District of churches (varying in size) providing spiritual and administrative leadership to those churches and their pastors. District Superintendents used to be called Presiding Elders in U.M. Churches, and still are in other Methodist denominations. This article is about the current denomination africa. ... Clergy is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion. ... The word leadership can refer to: the process of leading. ... The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ... A denomination, in the Christian sense of the word, is an identifiable religious body under a common name, structure, and/or doctrine. ...