The Acts of Convention

Resolved,

1. That, upon the expressed request of the Diocese of Costa Rica, as stated in this resolution, and in conformity with Title I, Canon 10, Section 3(e), and by concurrent action of the 65th General Convention, the status of an Extra-Provincial Diocese be granted to "La Iglesia Episcopal Costarricense";
2. That in conformity with the expressed wishes of "La Iglesia Episcopal Costarricense" to further the autonomy of the IX Province and of its member Churches, and as an experimental process in conformity with the resolution adopted by the Synod to assist any member church seeking its autonomy, the Executive for World and Domestic Mission of the Executive Council of PECUSA, the Ninth Province be authorized to exercise, through its President and its House of Bishops, the Metropolitical Authority now exercised by PECUSA, over the diocese of Costa Rica, as an Extra-Provincial Diocese in accordance with the Resolution adopted by its Synod; such Metropolitical Authority as that designated for the Episcopal Church of Cuba, be established;

and be it further

Resolved, That the Resolution B-230 from the Diocese of Costa Rica requesting Extra-Provincial status be adopted granting such status to the Missionary Diocese of Costa Rica, and that the Metropolitical Authority over the Missionary Diocese of Costa Rica be transferred to the House of Bishops of the Ninth Province.