| Resolution Number: | 2012-A105 |
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| Title: | Amend Canon I.2.1 [Nominating Committee to Elect Presiding Bishop] |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred |
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Resolved, That Canon I.2.1 be amended by adding a new subsection (e), with succeeding subsections to be re-lettered as necessary, to read as follows:
(e) The Joint Nominating Committee shall develop and manage a process for soliciting and identifying qualified nominees for the office of Presiding Bishop and for providing the nominees to the General Convention at which a Presiding Bishop is to be elected. The process shall include (1) providing the names of not fewer than three members of the House of Bishops for consideration by the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies in the choice of a Presiding Bishop; (2) establishing a timely process for any bishop or deputy to express the intent to nominate any other member of the House of Bishops from the floor at the time the Joint Nominating Committee presents its nominees to the joint session of the two Houses, and for each Bishop so nominated to be included in the information distributed about the nominees; (3) providing pastoral care for each nominee bishop and his or her family and diocese; and (4) determining and providing for transition assistance to the Presiding Bishop and the Presiding Bishop-elect.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Indianapolis, 2012 (New York: General Convention, 2012), p. 214. |
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Legislative History
| Author: | Standing Commission on the Structure of the Church |
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| Originating House: | House of Deputies |
| Originating Committee: | Structure |
House of Deputies
The House of Deputies Committee on Structure presented its Report #17 on Resolution A105 (Amend Canon I.2.1) and moved adoption.
Original Text of Resolution
(A105)
Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That Canon I.2.1 be amended by adding a new subsection (e), with succeeding subsections to be re-lettered as necessary, to read as follows:
(e) The Joint Nominating Committee shall develop and manage a process for soliciting and identifying qualified nominees for the office of Presiding Bishop and for providing the nominees to the General Convention at which a Presiding Bishop is to be elected. The process shall include (1) providing the names of not fewer than three members of the House of Bishops for consideration by the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies in the choice of a Presiding Bishop; (2) establishing a timely process for any bishop or deputy to express the intent to nominate any other member of the House of Bishops from the floor at the time the Joint Nominating Committee presents its nominees to the joint session of the two Houses, and for each Bishop so nominated to be included in the information distributed about the nominees; (3) providing pastoral care for each nominee bishop and his or her family and diocese; and (4) determining and providing for transition assistance to the Presiding Bishop and the Presiding Bishop-elect.
Motion carried
Resolution adopted
(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #106)
House of Bishops
The House of Bishops Committee on Structure presented its Report #11 on HB Message #106 on Resolution A105 (Amend Canon I.2.1) and moved concurrence.
Motion carried
The House concurred
(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message # 158)
Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 10.
| Report Reference: | Standing Commission on the Structure of the Church, Reports to the 77th General Convention, 2012, pp. 533-553. |
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| Abstract: | The 77th General Convention amends Canon I.2.1 by adding a new subsection on the process whereby the Joint Nominating Committee shall identify qualified nominees for the Office of Presiding Bishop. |