| Resolution Number: | 2003-A063 |
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| Title: | Encourage Diversity in Diocesan Leadership |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred as Amended |
| Final Text: | |
Resolved, That the 74th General Convention encourage bishops and commissions on ministry to identify, support, and retain individuals for ministry from specific cultural communities within the diocese not well represented in the diocese's current leadership.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, 2003 (New York: General Convention, 2004), p. 688. |
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Legislative History
| Author: | The Standing Commission on Domestic Mission and Evangelism |
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| Originating House: | House of Bishops |
| Originating Committee: | Committee on Ministry |
House of Bishops
The House of Bishops Committee on Ministry presented its Report #6 on Resolution A063 (Ethnic Specific Discernment Committees) and moved adoption with amendment.
Original Text of Resolution:
(A063)
Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the 74th General Convention encourage bishops and commissions on ministry to designate ethnic-specific discernment committees to identify, support, and retain individuals for ministry from communities not well represented within a diocese's current leadership.
Committee Amendment:
Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the 74th General
Convention encourage bishops and commissions on ministry to designate
ethnic-specific discernment committees to identify, support, and
retain individuals for ministry from specific cultural communities
within the diocese not well represented within
in a the diocese's current leadership.
Motion carried
Resolution adopted with amendment
(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #67)
House of Deputies
The House of Deputies Committee on Ministry presented its Report #15 on HB Message #67 on Resolution A063 (Ethnic Specific Discernment Committees) and moved concurrence.
The House concurred
(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #284)
Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, August 8.
| Report Reference: | Standing Commission on Domestic Mission and Evangelism, Reports to the 74th General Convention, 2003, pp. 112-135. |
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| Abstract: | The 74th General Convention encourages bishops and commissions on ministry to seek out individuals from communities within the diocese which are under represented in the diocese’s leadership. |
| Notes: | This record contains a corrected version of the final text from what is published in the Journal. The words "specific cultural" have been inserted as indicated by the committee amendment and voted on by the House of Bishops. |