[Magdalen] Diocese of Virginia 2015 Council Meeting

[Grace Cangialosi]

Lynn, I don't remember if anyone has mentioned how VA went from Convention to Council in the first place.

It happened around 1862. The Episcopal Church in the southern states separated itself from the rest of ETC, and those dioceses changed the name of their annual meetings from convention to council. Most of them have changed back, but we had not. The rationale was partly to honor the discomfort some of our African-American brothers and sisters have expressed and partly to recognize that we are, in fact, part of the whole Episcopal Church once again.

So the resolution passed. It requires one more reading and approval at next year's council, after which it can be adopted as a canonical change. That can also happen next year.

On January 22, 2015, at 6:56 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

To me council is COUNCIL... as in the great council's of THE CHURCH (all 
caps for emphasis not audio).

So when this discussion began, having noticed that our TEC has an abundance 
of both, I pondered how seriously they might have taken their independent 
little selves by using/choosing the word council.   And I'm curious what 
thinking is propelling VA to change.

L

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From: "Roger Stokes" <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 5:30 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Diocese of Virginia 2015 Council Meeting

> On 22/01/2015 21:37, Scott Knitter wrote:
>> It'll be a historic, festive day when the rest of the church can welcome
>> Virginia back into the warm fellowship of dioceses that have conventions
>> instead of councils. ;)
>
> It would make the writing amd interpretation of national Canons easier if 
> everybody used the same nomenclature ;-)  For me a council is a smaller 
> body than a convention.
>
> Roger