- GC-11
- Record sub-group
Records that were generally put into print; the function and office was regularly appointed to the Church Pension Fund.
Records that were generally put into print; the function and office was regularly appointed to the Church Pension Fund.
Pastoral letters, communication to the Church, records of the Secretary of the House including rolls, registers and Interim Meeting records, and House committee records. (Does not include Presiding Bishop's administrative records on the House's operation, or records pertaining directly to the triennial session.)
Ecclesiastical Discipline and Trial Court Records
Canonical deposits and other records of the Church's disciplinary process, including mostly appellate court record for the trial of a bishop and provincial trials of presbyters on appeal; some trial records from the diocesan courts. Also records of Accords and Orders.
Registrar of General Convention
Includes registry records of Episcopal Ordinations and Consecrations, and Ecclesiastical Discipline notifications.
Part of Mission Program Activities
This record group includes correspondence, reports, surveys, printed matter, photographs, grant requests, and subject files. The majority of the correspondence relates to awarded grants, placement of workers, requests for assistance, and reports from the aided dioceses.
Home Department
General Board of Religious Education. Minutes
Part of Mission Program Activities
The minutes document the Church's work in the field of religious education carried out by the General Board of Religious Education from its inception in 1911 to its dissolution in the 1960s. The General Board’s records are confined to the minutes of the Executive Committee.
General Board of Religious Education
Department of Christian Education. Records
Part of Mission Program Activities
The records relate to the reorganization of Christian education under the National Council beginning with the phase that retained some of the self-governing aspects of the Church’s board structure. The administrative records include minutes, reports, surveys, correspondence, financial statements, and printed matter. Of note is a significant amount of documentation relating to an annual index of Episcopal Camps and Conferences, including questionnaires, leaflets, brochures, and correspondence as well as two film series including Here and Now and Going on from Here, along with production records. Reports, minutes, transcriptions, and correspondence that document the various aspects of the Department’s work among youth round out the collection.
Department of Christian Education
Advisory Commission on Ecclesiastical Relations. Records
Part of Mission Program Activities
This is a small group of the Commission’s minutes and reports. Of note is a 1931 report by Frank Gavin on the condition of the Church in Europe and the Middle East, which was filed with the Committee on Ecclesiastical Relations as it was then known.
Advisory Commission on Ecclesiastical Relations
Henry Forrester Missionary Papers
Part of Mission Program Activities
Henry Forrester’s working papers primarily document his domestic missionary activity in New Mexico and include four bound volumes of correspondence sent and received beginning with the final months of his rectorship in Terry, Mississippi (1874), through his early services in Santa Fe, Las Vegas, and Albuquerque. Also represented in the archive is a scrapbook volume titled “Forresteriana,” which covers the period 1871 to 1880 and includes clippings on topics of concern to him, news items on his work, published letters, and tracts written by Forrester for his work with the Spanish speaking population of the territory.
Domestic Committee
National and World Mission. Anglican Communion Records
Part of Mission Program Activities
The Anglican Communion Records largely document the communication between staff of the National and World Mission office and representatives of other provinces and dioceses of the Anglican Communion. Included are reports, correspondence, meeting materials, and financial statements.
National and World Mission Office
Office of the Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces. Records
Part of Office of the Presiding Bishop
This archive consists of materials that document the Office of the Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces from when General Convention established the Office of the Suffragan Bishop to 1975. Earlier materials collected by the office relate to the history and legislation on military chaplains date back to 1924. Included in the collection are meeting minutes, correspondence, diocesan files, topical files, records of grant applications and conferences, and publicity materials.
Office of the Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces
Part of Mission Program Activities
This fonds documents the work of Ecumenical Officer Peter Day in representing the Episcopal Church on various external Christian bodies engaged in consultation on common liturgical and social matters, as well as discussions of unity. Of particular note are the Episcopal Church's files on the Consultation on Church Unity (COCU). Correspondence, reports, newsletters, articles, questionnaires are also found in the records.
Ecumenical Office
National Graduate Training Center (Windham House). Records
Part of Episcopal Agencies and Organizations of the General Convention or DFMS
The records comprehensively cover Windham House's entire history and include minutes, director’s reports, and correspondence. Administrative files document Windham House's inception through its final director Johanna Mott. There is a solid set of financial records (1931-1973) with building plans, and records relating to the disposal of property. Alumni lists and correspondence exist as does a set of student records (1928-1967). A series of publications and typescripts about Windham House includes yearly catalogs and bulletins on the schools curriculum and academic life. The records also include a set of photographs.
National Graduate Training Center (Windham House)
Committee on the Observance of the Nation's Bicentennial. Records
The committee’s records reflect the work done to create a vehicle for crafting projects and resources for parishes to celebrate the role of religion in marking the country’s bicentennial of independence. Records were also generated by two subcommittees of the Bicentennial Committee: Budget and “Forward Look”, to define future directions for the Church, especially in relation to the Bicentennial theme, "liberty and justice for all.” The latter committee met in 1975 and was chaired by Hodding Carter III. The committee’s records show their full engagement in a planning agenda. Emphasis was given to a special issue Anglican Theological Review (55:1) and the plans for the General Convention program and exhibit. Other publications relating to the Bicentennial are present, including writings on the topic by Presiding Bishop John Allin.
Committee on Observance of the Nation's Bicentennial
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