| Resolution Number: | 2003-B015 | |
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| Title: | Amend House of Bishops Rule X [Standing Orders] | |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Adopted as Amended | |
| Final Text: | ||
Resolved, That Rule X (Standing Orders General Convention Constitution and Canons 2000, pg. 189) be added as follows:
Whenever the House shall make a determination under Article I.2 of the Constitution that a resigned Bishop shall or shall not retain a seat and vote in the House, the following understanding of the intent of the pertinent terms of that provision of the Constitution shall apply:
| (a) | "advanced age" shall mean at least 62 years of age; |
| (b) | "bodily infirmity" shall mean either a condition for which one is eligible for disability retirement benefits from the Church Pension Fund or Social Security Administration, or a physical or mental impairment that a physician or psychiatrist (approved by the Presiding Bishop) certifies would likely result in eligibility for such disability retirement benefits should the Bishop continue in active episcopal ministry; |
| (c) | "office created by the General Convention" shall mean a ministry funded by the General Convention Budget and approved by the Presiding Bishop; and |
| (d) | "mission strategy" shall mean a strategy that would allow the election of an indigenous member of the clergy of a non-domestic diocese as Bishop, or that would allow a diocese to implement a new mission strategy as determined by the Presiding Bishop, or that would allow a transition in episcopal leadership after a Diocesan Bishop or Bishop Suffragan has served 10 or more years in either or both of those offices. |
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, 2003 (New York: General Convention, 2004), p. 78. |
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