Diocese of Milwaukee met for its 150th annual convention Oct. I I at Archbishop Cousins Roman Catholic Center in Milwaukee. The Rt. Rev. Roger White, Bishop of Milwaukee, presided.

A number of resolutions were passed to bring diocesan canons into congruence with national church canons, and to open various positions to both laity and clergy. A resolution endorsing the national Episcopal Church Women's Children 2000 program was adopted, highlighting a later report to the diocese on the need for a fulltime youth ministry coordinator.

Bishop White announced the appointment by executive council of a blue-ribbon commission on the restructure of the diocese which will report to the fall business convention of 1998. To close this sesquicentennial year, the spring convention will include all three Wisconsin dioceses, and Bishop White said he hoped for closer alignment with the dioceses of Fond du Lac and Eau Claire.

The nine-year companion relationship with the Diocese of Tuam, Ireland, has concluded, and a new companion relationship with the Diocese of Egypt will begin in January, 1998.

Convention speaker was the Rt. Rev. Samson Mwaluda, of the Diocese of Taita-Taveta, near the Mombasa Coast of Kenya, who mentioned the bewildering number of choices available to Americans. "Will [a particular choice] bring me and my church nearer to God - or farther?" he said.

During the convention Eucharist, Bishop White blessed a new carved and gilded icon of Bishop Jackson Kemper, missionary bishop of the northwest territory and first Bishop of Wisconsin, which will be installed in All Saints' Cathedral, Milwaukee, Nov. 2.