The Acts of Convention
| Resolution Number: | 2003-A143 | |
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| 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. |
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