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Journals of General Conventions of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the United States, 1785–1835 at Internet Archive Volume 1: 1785–1821; Volume 2: 1823–1835; and Volume 3: Historical notes and documents
The General Convention is the primary governing and legislative body of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.With the exception of the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Constitution and Canons, it is the ultimate authority in the Episcopal Church, being the bureaucratic facility through which the collegial function of the episcopate is exercised.
In 1997, however, the General Convention then determined that "the canons regarding the ordination, licensing, and deployment of women are mandatory" and required noncompliant dioceses to issue status reports on their progress towards full compliance. [78] In 2006, the General Convention elected Katharine Jefferts Schori as Presiding Bishop.
A special convocation of the Episcopal Church in Navajoland on October 17, 2009, elected Canon David Bailey, at that time Canon to the Ordinary and Development Officer in the Diocese of Utah, as Interim Canon to the Ordinary for the Navajoland Area Mission, pending the election by the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops of the next Bishop of ...
Charles Wallis Ohl Jr. (born October 21, 1943) [1] is an American bishop who was the Provisional Bishop of Fort Worth in The Episcopal Church.Jack Iker had been the Bishop of Fort Worth in the Episcopal Church until a super-majority of the diocese voted to dissolve its union with the General Convention at the 2007 and 2008 diocesan conventions.
In 2009, the General Convention authorized a new calendar for trial use, called Holy Women, Holy Men. [28] The book had more than 100 additional commemorations to honor a variety of historical persons such as poet Christina Rossetti, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, and the Dorchester Chaplains. [29]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Episcopalians voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow religious weddings for same-sex couples, solidifying the church's embrace of gay rights that began more than a decade ...
The House of Deputies elects a president from among its members as its presiding officer. [3] The president can be of either order. Presidents are elected every three years, taking office at the adjournment of the General Convention at which they were elected and continuing until the adjournment of the following General Convention.