Monday, January 12, 2009

FORT WORTH: Presiding Bishop will convene special diocesan convention

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_104147_ENG_HTM.htm

[Episcopal Life Online] 12 Jan 2009--Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said January 7 that she will convene a special meeting of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth convention on February 7.

Jefferts Schori will ask the convention to elect a provisional bishop for the diocese. The agenda will include the election of lay and clergy representatives for various diocesan leadership positions and adoption of a budget. It will also include approval of governance and organizational resolutions, including ones that would declare null and void certain amendments to the diocesan constitution and canons that were advocated by former diocesan leadership as a means to take the diocese out of the Episcopal Church.

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