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Resolution Number: 1976-C022
Title: Urge Dioceses to Formalize Relationships With Church-related Schools
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 65th General Convention approve the following:

That every Diocese having five or more Episcopal Church-related schools within its borders and presently lacking such Canon, be urged to adopt appropriate Canon(s) to identify the schools and to establish their relationship with the diocese.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, 1976 (New York: General Convention, 1977), p. C-69.

Legislative History

Author:
Originating House: House of Bishops
Originating Committee: Committee on Education

House of Bishops

On the Third Day, the Bishop Suffragan of New York, Chairman of the Committee on Education, moved the adoption of (C-22) on Church Schools which reads as follows:

Whereas, the relationship of the Episcopal Church with Church-related Boarding and Day Schools is historic and increasing; and

Whereas, very few Dioceses have an official and canonical procedure for implementing and nurturing this relationship; and

Whereas, the recent Triennial Conference of the National Association of Episcopal Schools identified the need for a canonical base for each Diocese's relationship with its schools; therefore, be it

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, that the 65th General Convention approve the following:

That every Diocese having five or more Episcopal Church-related schools within its borders and presently lacking such Canon, be urged to adopt appropriate Canon(s) to identify the schools and to establish their relationship with the diocese.

Seconded by Bishop Butterfield.

Resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #37)

House of Deputies

On the Eleventh Day, Deputy Green (Southern Virginia) presented Report #7 of the Committee on Christian Education regarding Resolution C-22, Diocesan Canons and Church Related Schools, and moved its adoption in order to concur with House of Bishops Message #37.

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #186)

Abstract:   The 65th General Convention urges every diocese having five or more Church-related schools within its borders to adopt appropriate canon(s).