The Acts of Convention

House of Bishops

The House of Bishops Committee on Churchwide Leadership presented its Report #12 on Resolution A287 (Amend Canon III.13 (Formerly Resolution A171)) and moved to refer the resolution to an interim body.

The Chair of the committee noted that the amendment had not been translation.

Motion carried

Consideration postponed

House of Bishops

The House of Bishops Committee on Churchwide Leadership returned the House to consideration of its Report #12 on Resolution A287 (Amend Canon III.13 (Formerly Resolution A171)) and moved to refer the resolution to an interim body.

Original Text of Resolution:

(A287)

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That Canon III.13 is hereby amended to read as follows:

CANON 13: Of Dioceses without Bishops

Sec. 1(a). Upon the death, resignation, deposition, or removal of a Bishop Diocesan, a Bishop Suffragan or Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese may serve as the Bishop Diocesan Pro Tempore in accordance with Article II of the Constitution and the Constitution and Canons of the Diocese. If a Bishop Suffragan or Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese is not serving as its Bishop Diocesan Pro Tempore, a A Diocese without a Bishop Diocesan may, by an act of its Convention, and in consultation with the Presiding Bishop, be placed under the provisional charge and authority of a Bishop of this Church of another Diocese or of a resigned Bishop of this Church, who shall by that act be authorized to serve as Bishop Diocesan Pro Tempore and to exercise jurisdiction and carry out all the duties and offices of the Bishop Diocesan of the Diocese until a Bishop Diocesan is elected and ordained for that Diocese or until the act of the Convention is revoked.

Sec. 3. (b) A Diocese, while under the provisional charge of a Bishop Diocesan Pro Tempore, shall not invite any other Bishop to visit and exercise episcopal acts or authority without the consent of the Bishop Diocesan Pro Tempore in charge.

Sec. 2. Any Bishop may, on the invitation of the Convention or of the Standing Committee of any Diocese where there is no Bishop, visit and exercise episcopal offices, but shall not exercise jurisdiction, in that Diocese or any part of it as a Bishop Provisional for the Diocese. This invitation may shall include a letter of agreement, shall be for a stated period and may be revoked at any time. A Diocese may have more than one Bishop Provisional serving the Diocese, and in such case the respective duties and responsibilities of the Bishops Provisional shall be set forth in their letters of agreement.

And be it further resolved that this Amendment to Canon III.13 shall be effective as of July 15, 2018.

And be it further resolved that because of the number of current episcopal transitions, the Secretary of General Convention is encouraged to communicate notice of the adoption of this resolution as soon as practicable.

Motion carried

Resolution referred

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #213)