Resolution Number: 2003-C052
Title: Transfer Diocesan Territory from Wyoming to Idaho
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That the request of the Diocese of Wyoming and the Diocese of Idaho acting through their regularly convened conventions, and upon the approvals and consents of the respective Ecclesiastical authorities and of the standing committees of both dioceses that the territory generally described as the parish of Alta, Wyoming, and more particularly described as that portion of Teton County, Wyoming, lying west and north of the summit of the Teton Mountain Range, including the unincorporated community of Alta, be transferred from the Diocese of Wyoming to the Diocese of Idaho pursuant to Article V, Section 6 of the Constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, 2003 (New York: General Convention, 2004), p. 337f.

Legislative History

Author: Diocese of Wyoming
Originating House: House of Deputies
Originating Committee: Committee on Miscellaneous Resolutions

House of Deputies

The House of Deputies Committee on Miscellaneous Resolutions presented its Report #14 on Resolution C052 (Transfer of Diocesan Territories) and moved adoption.

Original Text of Resolution:

(C052)

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the request of the Diocese of Wyoming and the Diocese of Idaho acting through their regularly convened conventions, and upon the approvals and consents of the respective Ecclesiastical authorities and of the standing committees of both dioceses that the territory generally described as the parish of Alta, Wyoming, and more particularly described as that portion of Teton County, Wyoming, lying west and north of the summit of the Teton Mountain Range, including the unincorporated community of Alta, be transferred from the Diocese of Wyoming to the Diocese of Idaho pursuant to Article V, Section 6 of the Constitution of The Protestant Episcopal Church.

Motion carried

Resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #161)

House of Bishops

The House of Bishops Committee on Miscellaneous Resolutions presented its Report #10 on HD Message #161 on Resolution C052 (Transfer of Diocesan Territories) and moved concurrence.

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #259)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, August 8.

Abstract:   The 74th General Convention requests a transfer of territory from the Diocese of Wyoming to the Diocese of Idaho.