STOP PRESS: Bishop Dr Solomon re-elected

BISHOP Dr Robert Solomon has been re-elected Bishop of The Methodist Church in Singapore (MCS). He will serve a second four-year term for the quadrennium 2004-2008.

He was elected on the first day of the 8th Session of the General Conference of the MCS at Methodist Centre on Oct 18, 2004. He won the election on the second ballot with 28 votes, the two-thirds majority needed to win the election.

There will be a re-dedication for the bishop at Barker Road Methodist Church on Dec 9, 2004.

He was first elected Bishop at the 7th Session of the church's General Conference at Paya Lebar Methodist Church on Sept 27, 2000 when he was Principal of Trinity Theological College.


A doctor, he graduated from the University of Singapore with an MBBS in 1980. Later he decided to enter full-time ministry, and has pastored Toa Payoh Tamil Methodist Church and the Tamil Methodist Church at Short Street.


In 1984, he obtained his Master in Divinity (Summa cum laude) from the Asian Theological Seminary as well as M.I.S. (Hons) (Intercultural Studies) from the Alliance Biblical Seminary. He obtained his Ph. D. in pastoral theology from Edinburgh University in 1993.