The Acts of Convention
| Resolution Number: | 1985-A016 | |
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| Title: | Amend Canon I.8.7 [Powers of the Provincial Synod] | |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred | |
| Final Text: | ||
Resolved, That Title I, Canon 8, Sec. 7 be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 7. Each Diocese and Area Mission within the Province shall be entitled to representation in the Provincial House of Deputies by Presbyters or Deacons canonically resident in the Diocese or Area Mission, and Lay Persons, confirmed adult communicants of this Church in good standing, but not necessarily domiciled in the Diocese or Area Mission, in such number as the Provincial Synod, by Ordinance, may provide. Each Diocese or Area Mission shall determine the manner in which its Deputies shall be chosen.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Anaheim, 1985 (New York: General Convention, 1986), p. 512. |
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