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Resolution Number: 1979-A025
Title: Amend Canons III.9, 14, 16 as follows:
Canon III.9.4 [Provisions Respecting Ordination]
Canon III.14.2 [Of Bishops Coadjutor]
Canon III.16.7 [Of Suffragan Bishops]
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That the Canons be amended as hereinafter provided, to wit:

  1. That Title III, Canon 9, Sec. 4 (c) be amended to read as follows:

    In the case of a vacancy in the episcopate in a Diocese or Missionary Diocese, the Ecclesiastical Authority may authorize and request the President of Province, or another Bishop, to take order for an ordination.

  2. That the first sentence of Title III, Canon 14, Sec. 2(a) be amended to read as follows:

    When a Bishop of a Diocese is unable, by reason of age, or other permanent cause of infirmity, or, except in a Missionary Diocese , by reason of the extent of Diocesan work, fully to discharge the duties of his office, a Bishop Coadjutor may be elected by and for said Diocese.... (The rest of the sentence to remain unchanged).

  3. That Title III, Canon 16, Sec. 7(a) be amended by deleting the words "or Bishop of a Missionary Diocese" and the words "or Bishop of a Missionary Diocese as the case may be".
Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 1979 (New York: General Convention, 1980), p. C-23.