| Title: | Diocesan Accession to the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church |
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| ID: | EXC062007.02 |
| Committee: | National Concerns (report 23) |
| Citation: | Executive Council Minutes, Jun. 14, 2007, Parsippany, NJ, p. 5. |
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Resolved, That the Executive Council, meeting in Parsippany, New Jersey from June 11-14, 2007, reminds the dioceses of The Episcopal Church that Article V, Section 1 of the Constitution of The Episcopal Church requires each Diocese to have a Constitution which shall include “an unqualified accession to the Constitution and Canons of this Church;” and be it further Resolved, That any amendment to a diocesan Constitution that purports in any way to limit or lessen an unqualified accession to the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church is null and void; and be it further Resolved, That the amendments passed to the Constitutions of the dioceses of Pittsburgh, Ft. Worth, Quincy, and San Joaquin, which purport to limit or lessen the unqualified accession to the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church are accordingly null and void and the Constitutions of those dioceses shall be as they were as if such amendments had not been passed. |
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