| Resolution Number: | 2000-C003 | |
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| Title: | Amend Canon III.2 [Of Commissions on Ministry] | |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred | |
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Resolved, That Canon III.2., "Of Commissions on Ministry," be amended as follows:
CANON III.2: Of Commissions on Ministry
Sec. 1. In each Diocese there shall be a Commission on Ministry ("the Commission") consisting of Clergy and Lay Persons. The number of members, terms of office, and manner of selection to the Commission shall be determined by the Canons of each diocese.
Sec. 2. The Commissions shall assist the Bishop with regard to the implementation of Canon III. 1., "Of the Ministry of All Baptized Persons":
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(a) In determining present and future opportunities and needs for the ministry of all baptized persons in the Diocese and the world. | |
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(b) In supporting the development, training, utilization, and affirmation of the ministry of all baptized persons in the Diocese and in the world. |
Sec. 3. The Commission shall assist the Bishop with regard to the needs for ordained and Lay professional ministries in the Diocese:
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(a) In determining present and future needs for ordained and Lay professional ministries in the Diocese. | |
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(b) In recruiting and selecting persons for Holy Orders and in guiding and examining Postulants, Candidates, and Deacons in training for Priesthood. | |
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(c) In providing for the guidance and pastoral care of Clergy and Lay Persons who are in stipendiary and non-stipendiary positions accountable to the Bishop. | |
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(d) In promoting the continuing education of the Clergy and of Lay Professionals employed by the Church. | |
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Sec. 34. The Bishop and Commission shall actively solicit from the clergy and laity of parishes, college and university campus ministry centers, and other communities of faith, nominations of persons whose demonstrated qualities of Christian commitment, leadership and vision, and responsiveness to the needs, concerns, and hopes of the world mark them as desirable candidates for positions of leadership in the Church. The Commission shall invite such nominees to engage in a process of discernment appropriate to the cultural background of the nominees by which to ascertain the type of leadership, lay or ordained, to which they may be called. When this discernment process has been completed, the Commission shall commend to the agencies with their procedures as established under (c) and (e) Sec. 2. (b) above, those whose vocation is to lay ministry, and shall present to the Bishop those whom it wishes to support as Postulants for ordination to the Diaconate or Priesthood, and who have indicated their willingness to be so nominated.
Sec. 4 5. The Commission may adopt rules for its work, subject to the approval of the Bishop; provided, they are not inconsistent with the Constitution and Canons of the Church or of the Diocese. These rules may include provision for committees of the Commission to act on its behalf; however, ultimate responsibility shall remain with the Commission as a whole to report to the bishop concerning an applicant's fitness and readiness for admission as a Postulant or Candidate, for ordination to the Diaconate and, if requested by the Bishop, to the Priesthood.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 2000 (New York: General Convention, 2001), p. 581f. |
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