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Resolution Number: 1997-D106
Title: Consent to the Election of the Bishop-elect of Alaska
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That the provisions of Title III, Canon 22, Sec. 3 having been complied with, this General Convention consent to the election of Mark Lawrence MacDonald as Bishop Diocesan of Alaska.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, 1997 (New York: General Convention, 1998), p. 267.

Legislative History

Author:
Originating House: House of Deputies
Originating Committee: Committee on Consecration of Bishops

House of Deputies

Original Text of Resolution:

(D106)

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the provisions of Title III, Canon 22, Sec. 3 having been complied with, this General Convention consent to the election of Mark Lawrence MacDonald as Bishop Diocesan of Alaska.

Motion carried

Resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #80)

House of Bishops

House of Bishops

The Committee on Consecration of Bishops presented its Report #4 on HD Message #80 on Resolution D106 (Consent for the Election of Mark MacDonald as Bishop Diocesan of Alaska), moved the resolution, and recommended concurrence.

Motion carried

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #299)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 25.

Abstract:   The 72nd General Convention consents to the election of the Bishop-elect of Alaska.
Notes:  

Mark Lawrence MacDonald was elected on May 3, 1997 and consecrated to the office of Bishop of Alaska on September 13, 1997.