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TEC Pittsburgh Has a Petition Nomination in the Bishop Election Process—Lionel Diemel is Concerned

from TitusOneNine by Kendall Harmon

First please go here and reread the necessary procedures for a petition nomination. Observe especially the following:

"A petition should come after a prayerful discernment about the preliminary slate and as a way to strengthen the slate," advises Dean [George] Werner.

A nomination by petition requires ten signatures from individuals representing at least three parishes. Four of those signing must be canonically resident clergy, and of the six lay communicants in good standing in parishes of the diocese, three must be deputies to the Diocesan Convention. The petition must also include the consent signature of the person being nominated.

Now see what you make of Lionel Diemel's take on this matter.