Full Legislative History
Resolution Number: 1991-C034
Title: Urge the CPF to Study the Effects of Clergy Emigration to the U.S.
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred As Substituted
Final Text:

Resolved, That the General Convention urge the Church Pension Fund to study the transfer of assets to the Church Pension Fund representing pension contributions made to other member churches of the Anglican Communion on behalf of clergy who have emigrated to the United States and who have been received into the Episcopal Church, and on whose behalf contributions have been made to The Fund, and to report thereon to the 71st General Convention; and be it further

Resolved, That should such asset transfers be approved by the churches concerned, that the General Convention urge The Fund to study making suitable provisions to supplement the pensions of such clergy so that as far as possible their pensions be comparable to those clergy whose entire period of service has been in the Episcopal Church, and to report thereon to the 71st General Convention.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Phoenix, 1991 (New York: General Convention, 1992), p. 332.