General Convention of The Episcopal Church
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General Convention of The Episcopal Church
Governing Bodies of General Convention
Records of official canonical standing committees and commissions, boards, joint house committees, task groups, and similar authorized ad hoc bodies acting in the interim and at the direction of the General Convention; may include records either generated directly by the interim body or collected as part of the central files of the Secretariat. The category does not include the separate category of Executive Council, which also acts as the board of directors for the DFMS and may act in the place of (rather at the direction of) the General Convention.
Official Papers of the President's office, the Secretary of the House, committees of the House (e.g. the State of the Church), publications and communications generated by and within the House not pertaining directly to the triennial session.
Archives of the General Convention. Early Manuscript Collection
Manuscript collection created by General Convention mandate and appointment of a Conservator, Francis Lister Hawks and _Perry, including subsequent additions; sometimes called the Hawks Manuscript Collection, the whole includes several other MSS collections.
Records and official papers of the legislative sessions in joint gathering, including the legislative and special committee records (minutes, documents and other papers, including sanctioned audio, video, and electronic recordings of the proceedings.
Records of the Provinces (1-9)
Archives of the nine provinces of General Convention including journals of the synod, minutes of the synod, executive committees, and ad hoc committees, program and project files, reports and publications.
Custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer
Records of the Custodians in their role of approving copies of the Standard in English and other languages, and their participation in trial or revision liturgies for the Prayer Book.
Records of the Executive Office
Includes records generated by the Secretary, the Treasurer of General Convention (if separate person), the Executive Officer (if a separate person), the Convention Manager, and other officials serving the Convention in the functions of planning, arrangements, statistical reporting on the state of the church, and other administrative coordination.
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.
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
This collection consists of trial records related to The Diocese of Newark vs George Gaines Swanson, as appealed to the Court of Review of Province II in 1989-1990. The official record on appeal is bound in four volumes, with a table of contents in the first volume. Records in these volumes include the original presentment, related correspondence, motions and court orders, transcripts of court proceedings, exhibits, and the notice of appeal. Notable among the exhibits are correspondence between Swanson and John Shelby Spong, and a transcript of Swanson's version of events leading up to the appeal. Records of the appeal proceedings are unbound and include the Appellant's Brief on Appeal, the Appellant's Reply Brief, the Decision of the Court of Review and a transcript of telephone conversations between Swanson and Denise Haines, the Archdeacon of Urban Ministry for the Diocese of Newark.
Provincial Court of Review for Province II
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