The Acts of Convention

House of Bishops

The House of Bishops Committee on Ministry presented its Report #26 on Resolution D005 (Gather Racial/Ethnic Statistics About Episcopal Elections and Clergy Compensation) and moved adoption of a substitute.

Original Text of Resolution:

(D005)

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the 79th General Convention of The Episcopal Church directs the Office of Pastoral Development to maintain statistics of the Racial and Ethnic makeup of men and women in elections to the episcopate and to report them annually to the Church; and be it further

Resolved, That the General Convention directs the Office for Transition Ministry, in consultation with the Church Pension Fund, diocese and other appropriate agencies gather data annually about 1) clergy compensation by race and ethnicity, and 2) numbers of all male and female clergy by race and ethnicity, and to broadly disseminate the report by electronic and other means on an annual basis.

Committee Substitute:

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the 79th General Convention of The Episcopal Church directs the Office of Pastoral Development to maintain statistics of the Racial and Ethnic makeup of men and women in elections to the episcopate and to report them annually to the Church; and be it further

Resolved, That the General Convention calls upon the Recorder of Ordinations to gather data about clergy by race and ethnicity in order to show trends in ordination, deployment, and compensation by race and ethnicity, and to report broadly by electronic and other means.

Motion carried

Substitute resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #241)