Full Legislative History
Resolution Number: 2003-A046
Title: Amend Canon III.22.1(e) [Of the Election and Ordination of Bishops]
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That Canon III.22.1(e) be amended as follows:

(e) The Secretary of the body Convention electing a Bishop Diocesan, Bishop Coadjutor, or Bishop Suffragan, shall inform the Presiding Bishop promptly of the name of the person elected. It shall be the duty of the Bishop-elect to notify the Presiding Bishop of his acceptance or declination of the election, at the same time as the Bishop-elect notifies the electing diocese.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, 2003 (New York: General Convention, 2004), p. 675.