| Resolution Number: | 2006-A025 | |
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| Title: | Amend Canon I.20 [Of Churches in Full Communion] | |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred as Amended | |
| Final Text: | ||
Resolved, That Title I be amended by adding a new Canon 20, to be named “Of Churches in Full Communion,” as follows:
Sec. 1. The Episcopal Church, a member of the Anglican Communion, has a relationship of full communion with those Churches in the historic episcopal succession and with whom it has entered into covenant agreements including:
(a) the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht,
(b) la Iglesia Filipina Independiente / the Philippine Independent Church, and
(c) the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar.
Sec. 2. The Episcopal Church has a relationship of full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America under the terms of “Called to Common Mission,” which was adopted by the 73rd General Convention of The Episcopal Church as Resolution A040.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Columbus, 2006 (New York: General Convention, 2007), p. 695. |
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