Costen Jordan Harrell

Costen Jordan Harrell (February 12, 1885 – December 28, 1970) was a bishop of The Methodist Church in the United States, elected in 1944.

He is of early English American descent, with a Methodist inheritance on both sides of his family.

His great grandfather was a class leader under Bishop Francis Asbury.

Harrell entered the Traveling Ministry of the Tennessee Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1909.

Harrell was then sent to West End Methodist Church in Nashville, Tennessee (1933–44), from which he was elected to the episcopacy.

In the reunification of U.S. Methodism (1939) he was the Secretary of the Committee on Temporal Economy and Lay Activities.