| Resolution Number: | 1979-D091 |
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| Title: | Request Observance of the Seabury Anniversary in 1984 |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred As Amended |
| Final Text: | |
Resolved, That this 66th General Convention of the Episcopal Church meeting in Denver, Colorado in September 1979, request the Presiding Bishop, the Executive Council, and all diocesan Bishops to formulate plans to observe it [the Seabury Anniversary] with appropriate programs, including an invitation to the Scottish Episcopal Church to participate in such celebration.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 1979 (New York: General Convention, 1980), p. C-100. |
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Legislative History
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| Originating House: | House of Bishops |
| Originating Committee: | Committee on Miscellaneous Resolutions |
House of Bishops
On the fifth day, the Bishop Suffragan of New Jersey, Chairman of the Committee on Miscellaneous Resolutions, moved the adoption of Resolution D-91, as amended:
Whereas, the year 1984 will mark the bicentennial year of the Consecration of the Right Reverend Samuel Seabury, first Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America; and
Whereas, this Church and Nation had in 1784 recently emerged from a period of conflict, struggle and division; and
Whereas, the establishment of the Episcopate in America became the expression of the unity of the Church and the impetus to proclaim the Gospel in a new Nation; be it therefore
Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That this 66th General Convention of the Episcopal Church meeting in Denver, Colorado in September 1979, request the Presiding Bishop, the Executive Council, and all diocesan Bishops to formulate plans to observe it with appropriate programs, including an invitation to the Scottish Episcopal Church to participate in such celebration.
The motion was seconded by the Bishop of Oklahoma.
Resolution adopted
(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #80)
House of Deputies
On the sixth day, HB Message #80 was referred to the Committee on Miscellaneous Resolutions.
On the tenth day, the Committee on Miscellaneous Resolutions presented its Report #22 on Resolution D-91, and recommended concurrence.
The House concurred
(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #183)
| Abstract: | The 66th General Convention requests observance of the bicentennial anniversary of the consecration of Bishop Samuel Seabury. |
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