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Resolution Number: 2003-A143
Title: Amend Constitution Article I.7 [Of General Convention--First Reading]
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Substituted
Final Text:

Resolved, That Article I.7 of the Constitution be amended to read:

Section 7. The General Convention shall meet not less than once in each three years, at a time and place determined in accordance with the Canons. appointed by a preceding Convention; but if there shall appear to the Presiding Bishop, acting with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Church or of a successor canonical body having substantially the powers now vested in the Executive Council, sufficient cause for changing the place or date so appointed, the Presiding Bishop, with the advice and consent of such body, shall appoint another place or date, or both, for such meeting. Special meetings may be held as provided for by Canon.

And be it further

Resolved, That this resolution be sent within six months to the Secretary of the Convention of every Diocese to be made known to the Diocesan Convention at its next meeting.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, 2003 (New York: General Convention, 2004), p. 339f.