PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT: Article I, Section 1
Resolved, by this 138th Annual Convention of the Episcopal
Diocese of Pittsburgh, that a second sentence be added to Article 1 [sic],
Section 1 of the Constitution:
In cases where the provisions of the Constitution and
Canons of the Church in the Diocese of Pittsburgh speak to the contrary,
or where resolutions of the Convention of said Diocese have determined the
Constitution and Canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United
States of America, or resolutions of its General Convention, to be contrary
to the historic Faith and Order of the one holy catholic and apostolic church,
the local determination shall prevail.
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT: Article III, Section 2
Resolved, by this 138th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh,
that the words “and actually” be deleted as follows:
Every member of the Clergy, in regular standing, who shall have been canonically
and actually resident in the Diocese, and engaged in the parochial missionary,
or educational work of the Church, under the Ecclesiastical Authority of
the Diocese, for three months preceding any Convention, shall be entitled
to a seat and vote in such Convention in all cases except in the election
of a Bishop, in which case the qualifications necessary to vote shall be
as hereinafter provided in Article XIV of this Constitution, PROVIDED, that
no member of the Clergy so qualified shall lose his or her right to a seat
and vote by reason of sickness or old age.
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