Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That dioceses and their bishops will actively develop and advocate policies and procedures that will help to ensure that Hispanics and other under-represented ethnic communities in their jurisdiction will have full knowledge of, access to and participation in local, diocesan and synodical positions of decision-making responsibility; and be it further
Resolved, That the Episcopal Church recognize, affirm and sustain the ministry of the church to, by and with the Hispanic people and other under-represented ethnic communities in all dioceses of the United States in which this ministry is an imperative.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Indianapolis, 1994 (New York: General Convention, 1995), p. 254. |