| Resolution Number: | 1976-A039 |
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| Title: | Continue to Study COCU Document on Mutual Recognition |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred |
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Resolved, That this 65th General Convention request the Commission on Ecumenical Relations to continue to stimulate and monitor, through the Episcopal Diocesan Ecumenical Officers network or in other ways, a study of the Inquiries appended to the document "Toward A Mutual Recognition of Members: An Affirmation" by the Consultation on Church Union and report the results to the next General Convention.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Minneapolis 1976 (New York: General Convention, 1977), p. C-93. |
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Legislative History
| Author: | The Joint Commission on Ecumenical Relations |
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| Originating House: | House of Bishops |
| Originating Committee: | Committee on Ecumenical Relations |
House of Bishops
On the Sixth Day, the Bishop of West Missouri, Chairman of the Committee on Ecumenical Relations, moved the adoption of the following Resolution (A-39):
Original Text of Resolution:
(A039)
Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, that this 65th General Convention request the Commission on Ecumenical Relations to continue to stimulate and monitor, through the Episcopal Diocesan Ecumenical Officers network or in other ways, a study of the Inquiries appended to the document "Toward A Mutual Recognition of Members: An Affirmation" by the Consultation on Church Union and report the results to the next General Convention.
The motion was seconded by the Bishop of Southern Ohio.
Resolution adopted
(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #101)
House of Deputies
On the Eleventh Day, the Secretary read Message #101 from the House of Bishops.
The House concurred
(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #191)
| Report Reference: | Joint Commission on Ecumenical Relations, Reports to the 65th General Convention, 1976, pp. AA-69-AA-111. |
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| Abstract: | The 65th General Convention requests that the Ecumenical Commission continue to study the inquiries appended to the COCU document, Toward A Mutual Recognition of Members: An Affirmation. |
| Notes: | The document "Toward the Mutual Recognition of Members: An Affirmation" appears as "Annex II" in the Report of the Joint Commission on Ecumenical Relations, Journal, 1976, p. AA-96f. The document was endorsed by the General Convention in resolution 1976-A038. |