C-2 Amend Canon 11 Section 2 - REFERRED: CONSTITUTION & CANONS: TEXT PENDING FINAL REVIEW
Amend Canon 11.14 as follows:
Section 14. The Bishop or the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese shall appoint, or else allow a Mission which is not a Mission of a Founding Church to elect, a Committee of not fewer than three not more than twelve Lay persons who are confirmed adult communicants in good standing of that Missionthe Diocese of Virginia, as defined in General Convention Canon 1.17, to be called the Vestry Committee.
C-3 Amend Canon 12 - REFERRED: CONSTITUTION & CANONS: TEXT PENDING FINAL REVIEW
Amend Canon 12 to add an additional Section 11 as follows:
Section 11. Any Church of this Diocese that incorporates under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia must include in its Articles of Incorporation a provision that the corporation accedes to the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church and of the Diocese of Virginia as an acknowledgment of the jurisdiction of the Bishop or the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese of Virginia required by Diocesan Canon 10.1 for a group of people to be called a Church.
C-4 Amend Article III - ADOPTED: TEXT PENDING FINAL REVIEW
Amend Article III, Section 1 as follows:
(e) The Lay members of the Standing Committee, the Lay members of the Executive Board, the
Chancellor, the Presidents of the Regions, the President of the Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese, five lay persons, not over 21 years of age at the time of election, to be elected on or before May 1 as Youth Delegates by five of the Regional Councils designated on an annual rotating basis by the Standing Committee, and two lay persons, not over 25 years of age at the time of the election, to be elected on or before May 1 as Collegiate Delegates by two of the Canterbury Vestries designated on an annual rotating basis by the Standing Committee shall be members of the Council ex officio. and two lay persons, not over 25 years of age at the time of election and participants in an Episcopal higher education ministry in the Diocese, to be elected by the Standing Committee on or before May 1 as Collegiate Delegates shall be members of Council ex officio.
C-5 Amend Canons 22, 23 and 24 - ADOPTED WITH 2/3 MAJORITY: TEXT PENDING FINAL REVIEW
Repeal Canons 23 and 24 in their entirety and Amend Canon 22 to read as follows:
Canon 22 The Commission on Ministry.
Section 1. Membership.
(a) The Council shall elect eight (8)six (6) persons, four (4)three (3) clerical and four (4)three (3) lay, to the Commission on Ministry; one in each order to be elected annually to serve for a term of four (4)three (3) years. No one so elected shall be eligible for re-election after having served two consecutive terms until
after the expiration of one year, providing that nothing herein shall prevent the Bishop from nominating one or more such persons under the provisions of Section 1(b) of this Canon. Such persons must be baptized persons, although they need not be communicants of the Church.
(b) The Bishop may annually appoint not more than eight (8)ten (10) additional
members for a term of one year each. Such appointments shall be subject to
confirmation by Council. Such appointments must shall be communicants in good standing. although they need not be communicants of the Church.
(c) In the case of a vacancy in the elected members [paragraph Section 1(a)], the
Executive Board shall fill the vacancy from the same order and that member shall serve for the balance of that term. In the case of a vacancy in the appointed members [paragraphSection 1(b)], the Bishop may appoint a member to complete that one-year term.
Section 2. The duties of the Commission on Ministry shall be those prescribed
in the Canons of the Episcopal Church, including, but not limited to, advising and assisting the Bishop (a) in the determination of present and future opportunities and needs for the ministry of all baptized persons and (b) in the design and oversight of the ongoing process for recruitment, discernment, formation for ministry and assessment of readiness therefore. The Commission may establish committees consisting of members and other persons to report to the Commission or to act on its behalf.
Section 3. The Commission on Ministry shall annually report to the Council
of the Diocese.
Section 4. As a transition following adoption of amendments to this Canon at the 212th Annual Council. F for the purpose of inaugurating the increasechanginginthe number and the rotation specified in Section 1(a), eight (8) persons, four clerical and four lay, shall be elected by the 206th Annual Council and shall draw lots to determine who will serve one, two, three or four-year termsthe previously elected members of the Commission on Ministry with remaining terms of office of one, two, and three years shall remain in office for the duration of their respective terms of office. This section of the Canon shall lapse upon the establishment of the terms of office so inaugurated.