| Resolution Number: | 1988-A021 | |
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| Title: | Amend Constitution Article V.2 [Rights of the Diocesan and the Bishop Coadjutor--First Reading] | |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred | |
| Final Text: | ||
Resolved, That Article V, Section 2 of the Constitution is hereby amended to read as follows:
In case one Diocese shall be divided into two or more Dioceses, the Bishop of the Diocese divided may elect the one to which he will be attached, and he shall thereupon become the Bishop thereof, and the Bishop Coadjutor, if there be one, may elect the one to which he shall be attached, and (if it not be the one elected by the Bishop) he shall be the Bishop thereof, at least thirty days before the effective date of such division, shall select the Diocese in which the Bishop will continue in jurisdiction. The Bishop Coadjutor, if there be one, subsequently and before the effective date of the division shall select the Diocese in which the Bishop Coadjutor shall continue in jurisdiction, and if it not be the Diocese selected by the Bishop, shall become the Bishop thereof.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Detroit, 1988 (New York: General Convention, 1989), p. 216. |
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