INDIANAPOLIS, IN: HOD votes to allow next PB retain diocesan position
INDIANAPOLIS, IN: HOD votes to allow next PB retain diocesan position
Title 1, Canon 2, Sec. 3 (a) & (b) on the chopping block
By Mary Ann Mueller
Special Correspondent
www.virtueonline.org
July 7, 2012
In another stunning move the House of Deputies voted Saturday afternoon to totally scuttle Title 1, Canon 2, Sec. 3 (a) & (b) which requires a Presiding Bishop-elect to immediately resign as bishop ordinary of their current Episcopal diocese.
The last Presiding Bishop to hold the dual role was Henry St. George Tucker who was the VIII Virginia (1927-1943) and the IXX Presiding Bishop (1938-1946).
Diocese of Virginia records show that in October 1943, the LIV General Convention, held in Cleveland, changed the church's Constitution and Canons to reflect the belief that the church's chief pastor's duties had become so demanding that it required a fulltime presiding bishop to fulfill those increasing needs including the growing leadership role with the Executive Council.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Title 1, Canon 2, Sec. 3 (a) & (b) on the chopping block
By Mary Ann Mueller
Special Correspondent
www.virtueonline.org
July 7, 2012
In another stunning move the House of Deputies voted Saturday afternoon to totally scuttle Title 1, Canon 2, Sec. 3 (a) & (b) which requires a Presiding Bishop-elect to immediately resign as bishop ordinary of their current Episcopal diocese.
The last Presiding Bishop to hold the dual role was Henry St. George Tucker who was the VIII Virginia (1927-1943) and the IXX Presiding Bishop (1938-1946).
Diocese of Virginia records show that in October 1943, the LIV General Convention, held in Cleveland, changed the church's Constitution and Canons to reflect the belief that the church's chief pastor's duties had become so demanding that it required a fulltime presiding bishop to fulfill those increasing needs including the growing leadership role with the Executive Council.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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