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2000 CONVENTION
Offices to be filled by election
1) ACTS/VIM BOARD (13 members)
*To be elected: Class of 2003 1 clergy/2 lay members
Multiple nominations; require 2 clergy and 3 lay candidates.
The Bishop
3 year term: 3 clergy, 6 lay members - elected by convention
3 clergy or lay members - appointed by Bishop
Maximum six years
Candidate requirements: attendance at four meetings a year when proposals are being considered for funding. Two
meetings between the second week in March and last week in April. Two meetings between the second week in September
and the last week in October. Site visits made to grant requesters.
Desirable, but not essential, experience: grant writing, reviewing grants, starting or expanding programs.
2) CONSTITUTION AND CANONS COMMITTEE (10 members
and the Chancellor)
*To be elected: 10 members - (lay or clergy) must be a deputy to the convention at which elected.
Multiple nominations; require 11 candidates; clergy or lay.
The committee serves from the adjournment of the convention at which it is elected until the adjournment of the
next annual convention. It reviews the Constitution and Canons and makes recommendations for the amendment thereof
and reports to the convention on amendments proposed by others. The committee also reviews Opinions of the Chancellor,
as outlined in Canon 20.
The committee meets at the beginning of December to prepare for the annual convention, during convention as necessary,
and when called into special session as described in Canon 20.
The Chancellor is a member ex officio and the chair.
Desirable, but not essential, experiences: church law, revising parish constitutions.
Candidate requirement: Adult communicant in good standing; must be a deputy to the convention at which elected.
3) DIOCESAN COUNCIL (36 members, plus bishops,
convention secretary & treasurer, chancellor)
*To be elected: Class of 2002 2 lay/2 clergy members
Multiple nominations; require 3 clergy and 3 lay candidates.
Membership: The Bishop as President; the Bishop Suffragan; Secretary of Convention; Treasurer; Chancellor, as legal
advisor; and
2 clergy, 2 lay appointed by the Bishop
4 clergy, 4 lay elected by Convention
12 clergy, 12 lay elected by Districts
Terms are two years and a maximum of two consecutive terms may be served.
The Diocesan Council acts for the convention in the interim between meetings, works with the Bishop and staff on
long-range planning and determining program priorities for presentation to the convention, and, acting for the
convention, reviews and evaluates programs approved by the convention.
Candidate requirements: attendance at ten monthly meetings (no meetings in July and August); second Wednesday of
the month; 6 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. - Evening Prayer and Dinner; 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. - business session. Meetings
held in churches and institutions around the diocese.
Committee assignments: Budget, Congregational Development, Insurance, Planning, Outreach and Steering.
Desirable, but not essential, experience: service on vestry/executive committee, diocesan groups.
4) ECCLESIASTICAL COURT (7 members: 4 clergy,
3 lay)
*To be elected: Class of 2004 1 clergy
*To be elected: Class of 2003 1 lay
One nomination necessary for each office.
The Ecclesiastical Court functions at the time of presentment and trial of a priest or deacon in this diocese as
described in Canons 17 and 18.
5) GENERAL CONVENTION CLERGY ALTERNATE
Term: Duration of Convention
*To be elected:1 clergy alternate
(The General Convention will be held in Denver, Colorado, July 2000.)
The deputies will represent the Diocese at General Convention which:
- elects a Presiding Bishop, certain members of the Executive Council, and Church Pension Fund Trustees
- adopts the Program and Budget of the Church; makes assessments for the office of the Presiding Bishop
- can revise The Book of Common Prayer
- can alter or amend the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church
- makes pronouncements for the Church
- approves cession and retro-cession of territorial jurisdiction
- establishes Courts of Review
- consents to the formation of new dioceses
Desirable but not essential experience: previous general convention deputy, diocesan groups, provincial synod,
vestry/executive committee.
6) DEPARTMENT OF MISSIONS (18 members plus officers)
*To be elected: Class of 2003 3 clergy/3 lay members
*To be elected: Class of 2002 1 clergy/1lay
*To be elected: Class of 2001 2 clergy/1lay
Multiple nominations; require 5 clergy/4 lay candidates.
Members: the Bishop; the Bishop Suffragan; 1st Vice President; 2nd Vice President; Secretary; Treasurer (officers
are appointed by the Bishop as directed in Charter on Incorporation 1914); 9 clergy and 9 lay members elected by
Convention.
The Department of Missions formulates and implements the mission policy of the diocese in partnership with Diocesan
Council and other responsible bodies of the diocese. There are 34 mission congregations and special ministries
of which approximately 60% receive financial investment from the DOM, along with several aided parishes. The department,
with the bishop as its president, not only assists congregations that need support, but also works to set mission
churches as models of excellence in all aspects of church life.
Candidate requirements: participation at monthly meetings, the third Wednesday, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.; liaison to one
or more missions and/or aided parishes to establish covenants with the DOM, monitor progress and provide resources.
Desirable, but not essential, experience: service on vestry or executive committee, finance, real estate, property
maintenance, creating programs.
7) PROVINCIAL SYNOD DEPUTIES & SUPPLEMENTARIES
*To be elected: Class of 2002 2 clergy/2 lay deputies
2 clergy/2 lay supplementaries
Multiple nominations; require 5 clergy and 5 lay candidates.
Constitutional union of dioceses and canonically empowered to:
- enact ordinances for its own regulation and government;
- elect provincial representatives to Executive Council;
- elect judges to the Provincial Court of Review;
- perform such duties as may be committed to it by the General Convention;
- handle all other appropriate matters within the Province;
- adopt a budget for the maintenance of any provincial work undertaken by the Synod;
- report findings on proposed National Church appropriations.
Candidate requirements: attendance at a two-day overnight meeting (usually held in the states of New Jersey or
New York in May or June); committee assignments as necessary.
Note: attendance for supplementaries will be as needed.
Desirable, but not essential, experience: vestry, diocesan groups.
Province II consists of the Dioceses of: Albany, Central New York, Haiti, Long Island, Newark, New Jersey, New
York, Rochester, Western New York, the Virgin Islands and the Convocation of American Churches in Europe (CACE)
8) THE STANDING COMMITTEE (8 members)
*To be elected: Class of 2004 1 clergy/l lay members
*To be elected: Class of 2002 1 clergy
Multiple nominations; require 3 clergy and 2 lay candidates.
4 clergy and 4 lay members are elected by Convention for a four (4) year term. A maximum of eight (8) consecutive
years may be served.
The Standing Committee is the Bishop's council of advice and the ecclesiastical authority when there is no bishop
in charge. Additionally, the Committee:
- gives consent to elections and resignations of bishops;
- approves any encumbrance of real property and sale of real property;
- approves modifications or revisions of judicial sentences;
- recommends postulants for candidacy, candidates for ordination to the diaconate and deacons to be ordained priests.
Attendance is required at ten monthly meetings, held the second Wednesday at 12:35 p.m. Committee assignments as
required.
Desirable, but not necessary, experience: law, real estate, vestry/executive committee, diocesan groups.
9) TRINITY & ST. PHILIP'S CATHEDRAL CHAPTER
(18 members)
*To be elected: Class of 2003 1 clergy/1 lay members
Multiple nominations; require 2 clergy and 2 lay candidates.
The membership of the Chapter is as follows:
- The Diocesan Bishop as President
- Bishops
- The Dean
- Archdeacons, if any
- 3 clergy & 3 lay persons elected by Convention for a one 3-year term
- 3 clergy & 3 lay members appointed by the Bishop for a one 3-year term
- 2 wardens, 1 treasurer, 1 clerk and 9 lay members elected from and by the congregation
Under the joint consolidation agreement and the Constitution of the Cathedral, the Chapter shall have the regulation,
management and administration of temporal affairs of the Cathedral and the decision in such spiritual matters pertaining
to its administration as may be referred to the Chapter by the Bishop or the Dean.
Attendance is required at quarterly meetings. Desirable, but not necessary, experience: vestry, diocesan groups.
10) SECRETARY OF CONVENTION
One nomination necessary.
Candidate requirement: Adult communicant in good standing.
11) TREASURER
One nomination necessary.
Candidate requirement: Adult communicant in good standing.
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