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Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut 290 Pratt Street Meriden, CT 06450
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Table of Contents
People, Committees, & Communities
Officers of our Diocese, Committees, Commissions 2 Deaneries 4 Diocesan Staff 7 Parishes & Mission Stations 8 Summer Chapels 16 Chapels of Institutions 16 Educational & Charitable Institutions 18 Clergy in the Order of Canonical Residence 19 Lay Delegates Attending Convention 31
Minutes of the 230th Annual Convention
Friday 36 Saturday 43
Supporting Documents
Resolutions 50 Resolution Appendices 56 Reports to Convention 65 Bishop’s Address 78 Episcopal Acts 84 Budget 87 Parochial Membership Statistics 96 Parochial Financial Statistics 102
Appendix
Constitution of the Diocese of Connecticut 109 Canons of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut 112
1 Bishop The Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas, B.A., M.A., M.Div., Ph.D. Office: 290 Pratt St., Meriden, 06450 Residence: 1 Collins Ln., Essex, 06426
Bishops Suffragan The Rt. Rev. James E. Curry, B.A., M.Div. Office: 290 Pratt St., Meriden, 06450 Residence: 14 Linwold Dr., West Hartford 06107
The Rt. Rev. Laura J. Ahrens, B.A., M.Div., D.Min. Office: 290 Pratt St., Meriden, 06450 Residence: 47 Craigmoor Rd., West Hartford, 06107
Standing Committee Clerical Lay The Rev. Greg Welin – 2015 Ms. Nancy Noyes – 2015 The Rev. Richard Maxwell – 2016 Mr. Joseph Carroll, Jr. – 2016 The Rev. Alex Dyer (Chair) – 2017 Mr. Bates Lyons – 2017 The Rev. Diana Rogers – 2018 Mr. Edward Seibert – 2018 The Rev. Tracy Russell Johnson – 2018 Ms. Kim Polhemus – 2019
General Convention – Salt Lake City, Utah 2015 Clerical Deputies Lay Deputies The Rev. Molly James Mr. Lynn Brooks The Rev. Linda Spiers (Chair) Mr. Albert Mollegan The Rev. Ellen Tillotson Mr. Thom Peters The Rev. Paul Carling Ms. Liza Anderson
Clerical Alternates Lay Alternates The Rev. Kris Lewis Mr. Donald Burr The Rev. Peter Walsh Ms. Shirley Wick
Provincial Synod Clerical Delegate Lay Delegate The Rev. Sandra Stayner Ms. Sylvia Ho
2 Secretary of the Diocese Secretary of the Convention The Rev. Molly James (2010) The Rev. Adam Yates (2012)
Treasurer Chancellor Mr. Lynn Brooks Bradford S. Babbitt Esq.
The Executive Council of the Diocese of Connecticut (Established 1921)
Members Ex-Officio Members-at-Large The Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas Ms. Barbara Curry The Rt. Rev. Laura J. Ahrens The Rev. Peter Walsh Bradford S. Babbitt Esq., Chancellor The Rev. Doug Engwall The Rev. Sandra Cosman, Sec. of the Ms. Valzie Peterkin Diocese The Rev. Adam Thomas Mr. Lynn Brooks, Treasurer The Rev. Ted Pardoe From the Deaneries
Deanery Clergy Laity Bridgeport The Rev. Judith Rhodes Mr. Fred Jackson Central CT The Rev. Tome White Mr. Norman Holland Danbury The Rev. William Loring Ms. Kim Polhemus Hartford The Rev. Chip Elliott Mr. Ed Crow Litchfeld The Rev. Susan McCone Ms. Danielle Gaherty Lower Naugatuck The Rev. Kris Lewis Mr. William Cleaver Middlesex The Rev. Jonathan Folts Ms. Suzy Burke Mid-Fairfield The Rev. Whitney Altopp Ms. Katherine Adamson Natchuag The Rev. David Carter ------New Haven ------Mr. William Hart North Central The Rev. Tom Furrer Ms. Karen Williams Seabury The Rev. Ron Kolanowski Ms. Shirley Wick Stamford The Rev. Whitney Altropp Waterbury The Rev. Mark Byers Ms. Ouida Green
3 Missionary Society of the Diocese of Connecticut Founded & Incorporated 1818; name changed 1865 and 1866 Board of Directors The Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas, Bishop The Rev. Molly James, Sec. of the Diocese Deaneries BRIDGEPORT Bridgeport, Calvary St. George's Fairfield, St. Timothy’s Bridgeport, St. John’s Monroe, St. Peter's Bridgeport, St. Luke’s & St. Paul’s Southport, Trinity Bridgeport, St. Mark’s Stratford, Christ Church Devon, St. Andrew’s Trumbull, Christ Church Easton, Christ’s Church Trumbull, Grace Church Fairfield, St. Paul’s Trumbull, Trinity Fairfield, Trinity-St. Michael’s
CENTRAL CONNECTICUT Bristol, St. John’s New Britain, St. Mark’s East Berlin, St. Gabriel’s Southington, St. Paul’s Plainville, Our Saviour Wallingford, St. Paul’s Meriden, St. Andrew’s Yalesville, St. John’s
DANBURY Bethel, St. Thomas’ New Milford, St. John’s Bridgewater, St. Mark’s Redding, Christ Church Brookfield, St. Paul’s Roxbury, Christ Church Danbury, St. James’ Sandy Hook, St. John’s Newtown, Trinity
HARTFORD Bloomfield, St. Stephen’s Hartford, St. Monica’s East Hartford, St. John’s Hartford, St. Paul’s East Hartford, All Saints’ Hartford, Trinity Farmington, St. James’ Wethersfield, Trinity Glastonbury, St. James’ Manchester, St. Mary’s Hartford, Christ Church Cathedral Newington, Grace Church Hartford, Good Shepherd South Glastonbury, St. Luke’s Hartford, Grace Church West Hartford, St. James’s Rocky Hill, St. Andrew the Apostle West Hartford, St. John’s Simsbury, St. Alban’s Windsor, Grace Church Hartford, St. Martin’s Vernon, St. John’s
4 LITCHFIELD Bantam, St. Paul’s Norfolk, Transfiguration Bethlehem, Christ Church Pine Meadow, St. John’s Kent, St. Andrew’s Salisbury, St. John’s Lime Rock, Trinity Sharon, Christ Church Litchfield, St. Michael’s Torrington, Trinity Marble Dale, St. Andrew’s Washington, St. John’s Milton, Trinity Winsted, St. James
LOWER NAUGATUCK VALLEY Ansonia, Christ Church Seymour, Trinity Derby, Immanuel/St. James Shelton, Good Shepherd Orange, Good Shepherd Shelton, St. Paul’s Oxford, St. Peter's Quaker Farms, Christ Church
MIDDLESEX Clinton, Holy Advent Madison, St. Andrew’s Durham, Epiphany Middle Haddam, Christ Church East Haddam, St. Stephen’s Middletown, Holy Trinity Essex, St. John’s Northford, St. Andrew’s Guilford, Christ Church Old Lyme, St. Ann’s Higganum, St. James’ Old Saybrook, Grace Church Ivoryton, All Saints’ Portland, Trinity Killingworth, Emmanuel Westbrook, St. Paul’s
MID-FAIRFIELD Darien, St. Paul’s Ridgefield, St. Stephen’s New Canaan, St. Mark’s Weston, Emmanuel Norwalk, Christ Church Westport, Christ & Holy Trinity Norwalk, St. Paul’s Wilton, St. Matthew’s
NATCHAUG Bolton, St. George’s Putnam, St. Phillip’s Brooklyn, Trinity Stafford Springs, Grace Church Danielson, St. Alban’s Storrs, St. Mark’s Hebron, St. Peter’s Vernon, St. John’s Plainfield, St. Paul’s Willimantic, St. Paul’s Pomfret, Christ Church Windham, St. Paul’s
NEW HAVEN Bethany, Christ Church New Haven, St. John’s Branford, Trinity New Haven, St. Luke’s East Haven, Christ & Epiphany New Haven, St. Paul & St. James’ Guilford, St. John's New Haven, St. Thomas’ Hamden, Grace & St. Peter’s New Haven, Trinity Milford, St. Peter’s North Branford, Zion New Haven, Christ Church North Haven, St. John’s New Haven, St. Andrew’s West Haven, Church of the Holy Spirit New Haven, St. James’
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NORTH CENTRAL Broad Brook, Grace Church South Windsor, St. Peter’s Collinsville, Trinity Suffield, Calvary Church East Windsor, St. John’s Tarriffville, Trinity Enfield, Holy Trinity
SEABURY Gales Ferry, St. David’s Poquetanuck, St. James’ New London, St. James’ Stonington, Calvary Niantic, St. John’s Mystic, St. Mark’s Norwich, Christ Church Yantic, Grace Church
STAMFORD Darien, Ascension Stamford, St. Andrew’s Darien, St. Luke’s Stamford, Eglise d’Epiphanie Greenwich, Christ Church Stamford, Iglesia Betania Greenwich, St. Barnabas’ Stamford, Christ the Healer Old Greenwich, St. Saviour’s Stamford, St. Francis Riverside, St. Paul’s Stamford, St. John’s
WATERBURY Cheshire, St. Peter’s Watertown, Christ Church Middlebury, St. George’s Waterbury, Christ Church Naugatuck, St. Michael’s Waterbury, St. John’s Oakville, All Saints’ Wolcott, All Saints’ Southbury, Epiphany Woodbury, St. Paul’s Thomaston, St. Peter’s/Trinity
6 Staff of the Diocese of Connecticut
The Rt. Rev. Laura Ahrens, Bishop Suffragan The Rt. Rev. James Curry, Bishop Suffragan The Rt. Rev. Ian Douglas, Bishop Diocesan Mr. Dave Desmarais, Property Manager Ms. Theresa Dupont, Secretary of Donations & Bequests Mr. Louis Fuertes, Canon for Mission Finance & Operations Ms. Karin Hamilton, Canon for Communication & Media Ms. Robin Hammeal-Urban, Canon for Mission Integrity & Training Mr. Matt Handi, Operations Manager The Rev. Timothy Hodapp, Canon for Mission Leadership Ms. Alison Hollo, Administrator for the Bishop’s Office The Rev. Molly James, Secretary of the Diocese Ms. Debbie Kenney, Administrator for Safe Church & Ordination Process Ms. Shirley McGarry, Financial Operations & Accounts Payable Ms. Bonni McKenney, Administrator for Programs of the Episcopate Ms. Karolyn Nicolaides, Financial Operations/Accounts Receivable Ms. Kori Pacyniak, Communications Specialist Ms. Jody Rodiger, Administrator for the Office of the Episcopate & Mission Collaboration The Rev. Audrey Scanlan, Canon for Mission Collaboration & Congregational Life Ms. Margaret Smith, Archivist Ms. Linda Walley, Administrator for Transitions & Clergy Support The Rev. Adam Yates, Secretary of the Convention
Camp Washington Staff
Ms. Jean Handler, Executive Director Mr. Matthew Cornish, Camp Director Ms. Diane Atwood, Operations Manager Mr. Ben Thompson, Food Services Manager
7 Parishes & Mission Stations
Ansonia, 06401 – Christ Bridgeport, 06604 – St. John’s 56 South Cliff St./PO Box 131 768 Fairfield Ave 203.734.2715 203.335.2528
Bantam, 06750 – St. Paul’s Bridgeport, 06607 – St. Mark’s Main St./PO Box 449 401 Newfield Ave/PO Box 4182 860.567.8838 203.335.5655
Bethany, 06525 – Christ Bridgeport, 06608 – St. Luke’s 526 Amity Rd and St. Paul’s 203.393.3399 594 Kossuth St./PO Box 2156 203.334-8674 Bethel, 06801 – St. Thomas’ 95 Greenwood Ave Bridgewater, 06752 – St. Mark’s 203.743.1494 Main St/PO Box 143 860.354.8269 Bethlehem, 06751 – Christ Main St./PO Box 130 Bristol, 06010 – St. John’s 203.266.7698 851 Stafford Ave 864.583.5445 Bloomfield, 06002 – Old St. Andrew’s Broad Brook, 06016 – Grace 59 Tariffville Rd 44 Old Ellington Rd/PO Box 405 860.242.4660 860.582.3159
Bloomfield, 06002 – St. Stephen’s Brookfield, 06804 – St. Paul’s 590 Bloomfield Ave 174 Whisconier Rd 860.242.1152 203.775.9587
Bolton, 06043 – St. George’s Brooklyn, 06234 – Trinity 1150 Boston Tpk/PO Box 9158 7 Providence Rd/PO Box 276 860.643.9203 860.774.9352
Branford, 06405 – Trinity Cheshire, 064106 – St. Peter’s 1109 Main St 59 Main St 203.488.2681 203.272.4041
Bridgeport, 06604 – Calvary St. Clinton, 06413 – Holy Advent George’s 83 East Main St/PO Box 536 755 Clinton Ave 860.669.2232 203.333.5116
8 Collinsville, 06022 – Trinity East Hartford, 06118 – All Saints 55 River Rd/PO Box 374 444 Hills St. 203.693.8172 860.568.6175
Danbury, 06810 – St. James’ East Hartford, 06108– St. John’s 25 West St. 12 Rector St. 203.748.3561 860.528.1474
Danielson, 06239 – St. Alban’s East Haven, 06512 – Christ & 254 Broad Street Epiphany 860.774.6665 39 Park Pl. 203.467.2310 Darien, 06820– Ascension (deaf) c/o St. Luke’s, Darien East Windsor, 06088 – St. John’s 92 Main St. Darien, 06820 – St. Luke’s 860.623.3273 1864 Post Rd./PO Box 3128 203.655.1456 Easton, 06612 – Christ 59 Church Rd. Darien, 06820 – St. Paul’s 203.268.3569 471 Mansfield Ave. 203.655.8773 Enfield, 06082 – Holy Trinity 383 Hazard Ave. Derby, 06418 – Immanuel St. 860.749.2722 James’ 123 Minerva St./PO Box 859 Essex, 06426 – St. John’s 203.734.4149 Main Street/PO Box 422 860.767.8095 Durham, 06422 – Epiphany Main Street/PO Box 337 Fairfield, 06430 – St. Paul’s 860.349.9644 661 Old Post Rd. 203.259.3013 East Berlin, 06023 – St. Gabriel’s 68 Main St./PO Box 275 Fairfield, 06430 – St. Timothy’s 860.828.3735 4670 Congress St. 203.255.2740 East Haddam, 06423 – St. Stephen’s Fairfield, 06825 - Trinity/St. 31 Main St./PO Box 464 Michael’s 860.873.9547 554 Tuxis Hill Rd. 203.368.3225
9 Farmington, 06032 – St. James’ Hartford, 06112 – St. Martin’s 3 Mountain Rd. 290 Cornwall St. 860.677.1564 860.242.0318
Gales Ferry, 06335 – St. David’s Hartford, 06112 – St. Monica’s Route 12 & 214/PO Box 296 31 Mather St. 860.464.6516 860.522.7761
Glastonbury, 06830 – St. James’ Hartford– St. Paul’s (Deaf) 2584 Main St./PO Box 206 C/O St. John’s, West Hartford 860.633.8333 Hartford, 06105 – Trinity Greenwich, 06830 – Christ 120 Sigourney St. 254 East Putnam Ave. 860.527.8133 203.869.6600 Hebron, 06248 – St. Peter’s Greenwich, 06830 – St. Barnabas’ 30 Church St. 954 Lake Ave. 860.228.3244 203.661.5526 Higganum, 06441 – St. James’ Guilford, 06437– Christ (Middlesex Area Cluster Ministry) 11 Park St./PO Box 574 Route 81/PO Box 574 203.453.2279 860.349.9644
Hamden, 06518 – Grace & St. Huntington, 06484 – St. Paul’s Peter’s 25 Church St. 2925 Dixwell Ave./PO Box 5065 203.929.1722 203.248.4338 Ivoryton, 06442 – All Saints’ Hartford, 06103 – Christ Church Main Street/PO Box 576 Cathedral 860.767.1698 45 Church St. 860.527.7231 Kent, 06757– St. Andrew’s 5 North Main St./PO Box 309 Hartford, 06106 – Good Shepherd 860.927.3486 155 Wyllys St. Killingworth, 06417 – Emmanuel 860.525.4289 (Middlesex Area Cluster Ministry) Hartford, 06106 – Grace Church Road/PO Box 686 55 Newport Ave. 860.349.9644 860.233.0825
10 Lime Rock, 06039 – Trinity Milford, 06460 – St. Peter’s Route 112 (Lakeville) 71 River St. 860.435.2627 203.874.8562
Litchfield, 06759 – St. Michael’s Milton, 06759 – Trinity 25 South St./PO Box 248 Milton Road/PO Box 839 860.567.9465 860.567.5369
Madison, 06443 – St. Andrew’s Monroe, 06468– St. Peter’s on 232 Durham Rd. the Green 203.245.2584 203.268.4265
Manchester, 06040 – St. Mary’s Mystic, 06355 – St. Mark’s 41 Park St. 15 Pearl St. 860.649.4583 860.572.9549
Marbledale, 06777 – St. Andrew’s Naugatuck, 06770 – St. Michael’s 247 New Milford Tpke./PO Box 210 Church St. 2007 203.729.8249 860.868.2275 New Britain, 06050 – St. Mark’s Meriden, 06450 – St. Andrew’s 147 West Main St./PO Box 1214 20 Catlin St. 860.225.7634 203.237.7451 New Canaan, 06840 – St. Mark’s Middlebury, 06762 – St. George’s 111 Oenoke Ridge Tucker Hill Road/PO Box 162 203.966.4515 203.758.9864 New Haven, 06511 – Christ Middle Haddam, 06456 – Christ 84 Broadway Moodus Road/PO Box 81 203.865.6354 860.267.0287 New Haven, 06511 – St. Andrew’s Middletown, 06457 – Holy Trinity 266 Shelton Ave. 381 Main St. 203.562.1080 860.347.2591 New Haven, 06513 – St. James’ Milford, 06460 – St. Andrew’s 62 East Grand Ave. (Devon) 203.467.6958 283 Bridgeport Ave. 203.874.4149 New Haven, 06511 – St. John’s 400 Humphrey St. 203.562.1487
11 New Haven, 06511– St. Luke’s Northford, 06472 – St. Andrew’s 111 Whalley Ave. (Middlesex Area Cluster Ministry) 203.865.0141 Middletown Ave./PO Box 96 203.484.0895 New Haven, 06511 – St. Paul’s & St. James’ North Guilford, 06437– St. John’s 57 Olive St. 129 Ledge Hill Rd. 203.562.2143 203.457.1094
New Haven, 06511 – St. Thomas’ North Haven, 06473 – St. John’s 830 Whitney Ave. 3 Trumbull Pl. 203.777.7623 203.239.0156
New Haven, 06510 – Trinity Norwalk, 06855 – Christ 129 Church St.,#705 Gregory Blvd/Emerson St 203.624.3101 203.866.7442
Newington, 06111 – Grace Norwalk, 06851 – St. Paul’s 124 Maple Hill Ave./PO Box 60 East Ave. 310258 (06131) 203.847.2806 860.666.3331 Norwich, 06360 - Christ Episcopal New London, 06320 – St. James’ 78 Washington St. 76 Federal St./PO Box 1716 860.887.4249 860.443.4989 Oakville, 06779 – All Saints’ New Milford, 06776 – St. John’s 262 Main St./PO Box 33 7 Whittlesey Ave./PO Box 179 860.274.2352 860.345.5583 Old Greenwich, 06870 – St. Newtown, 06470 – Trinity Saviour’s 36 Main St. 350 Sound Beach Ave. 860.426.9070 203.637.2262
Niantic, 06357 – St. John’s Old Lyme, 06371 – St. Anne’s 400 Main St./PO Box 810 82 Shore Rd./PO Box 297 20 3.739.2324 860.434.1621
North Branford, 06471 – Zion Old Saybrook, 06475 – Grace 326 Notch Hill Rd. 336 Main St. 203.488.7395 860.388.0895
12 Orange, 06477 – Good Shepherd Redding, 06876 – Christ Race Brook Road Redding Ridge/PO Box 54 203.795.6577 203.938.2872
Oxford, 06483 – St. Peter’s Ridgefield, 06877 – St. Stephen’s 1 Dutton Rd 351 Main St. 203.888.7542 203.438.3789
Pine Meadow, 06061 – St. John’s Riverside, 06878 – St. Paul’s PO Box 27 200 Riverside Ave. 860.379.3062 203.637.2447
Plainfield, 06374 – St. Paul’s Rocky Hill, 06067– St. Andrew 27 Babcock Ave. Apostle 860.574.3560 331 Orchard St. 860.529.7622 Plainville, 06062 – Our Saviour 115 West Main St. Roxbury, 06783 – Christ 860.747.3109 Church & North St/PO Box 4 860.354.4113 Pomfret, 06258 – Christ Route 44/PO Box 21 Salisbury, 06068 – St. John’s 860.315.7780 12 Main St./PO Box 391 860.435.9290 Portland, 06480 – Trinity 345 Main St. Sandy Hook, 06482 – St. John’s 860.342.0458 Washington Ave/PO Box 716 860.426.9938 Preston, 06360– St. James (Poquetanuck) Seymour, 06483 – Trinity Route #5 Preston 91 Church St. 860.889.0150 203.888.6596
Putnam, 06260 – St. Phillip’s Sharon, 06069 – Christ 63 Grove St./PO Box 628 Main Street 860.928.3510 860.364.5260
Quaker Farms, 06478 – Christ Shelton, 06484 – Good Shepherd 470 Quaker Farms Rd. (Oxford) 186 Coram Ave. 203.888.4936 203.924.8050
13 Simsbury, 06070– St. Albans Stamford, 06902 – St. Andrew’s 197 Bushy Hill Rd. 1231 Washington Blvd. 860.658.0406 203.325.4359
Southbury, 06488 – Epiphany Stamford, 06903– St. Francis’ 262 Main St. N. 2810 Long Ridge Rd. 203.264.8150 203.322.2949
South Glastonbury, 06073 – St. Stamford, 06901 – St. John’s Luke’s 628 Main St. 915 Main St./PO Box 155 203.348.2619 860.633.7175 Stamford, 06903 – Trinity Southington, 06489 – St. Paul’s 20 Brookdale Rd. 145 Main St. 203.322.6991 860.628.8486 Stonington, 06378 – Calvary Southport, 06490 – Trinity 27 Church St. 651 Pequot Ave./PO Box 400 860.535.1181 203.255.0454 Storrs, 06268 – St. Mark’s South Windsor, 06074– St. Peter’s 42 North Eagleville Rd. (Wapping) 860.49.2647 109 Sand Hill Rd./PO Box 582 Stratford, 06497– Christ 203.644.8548 2000 Main St. Stafford Springs, 06076 – Grace 203.375.4447 15 Highland Ter. Tariffville, 06081 – Trinity 860.684.2824 Church St/PO Box 127 Stamford, 06907 – Emmanuel 860.651.0201 977 Hope St./PO Box 4668 203.324.7538 Thomaston, 06787 – St. Peter’s/Trinity Stamford, 06901 – Iglesia Betania 160 Main St. 628 Main St. 860.283.5472 203.348.2619 Torrington, 06790 – Trinity Stamford, 06901 – L’Eglise de 220 Prospect St. l’Ephanie Episcopale 860.482.6027 628 Main St.
203. 964.1517
14 Trumbull, 06611 – Christ (Tashua) West Hartford, 06107– St. James’ 5170 Madison Ave. 19 Walden St. 203.268.5561 860.521.9620
Trumbull, 06611 – Grace West Hartford, 06119– St. John’s 5959 Main St. 679 Farmington Ave. 203.268.2809 860.523.5201
Trumbull, 06611 – Trinity West Haven, 06516 – Holy Spirit 1734 Huntington Tpke 28 Church St. 203.375.1503 203.934.3437
Vernon, 06066 – St. John’s Weston, 06883 – Emmanuel 523 Hartford Turnpike/PO Box 285 Lyons Plain Rd. 2237 203.227.8565 860.872.0517 Westport, 06880 – Christ & Holy Wallingford, 06492 – St. Paul’s Trinity 65 North Main St. 55 Myrtle Ave. 203.269.5050 203.227.0827
Washington, 06793 – St. John’s Wethersfield, 06109 – Trinity PO Box 1278 300 Main St. 860.868.2527 860.529.6825
Waterbury, 06705 – Christ Willimantic, 06226 – St. Paul’s 2030 East Main St. 220 Valley St. 203.753.6921 860.423.8455
Waterbury, 06702 – St. John’s Wilton, 06897 – St. Matthews 16 Church St. 36 New Canaan Rd./PO Box 426 203.754.3116 203.762.7400
Watertown, 06795 – Christ Windham, 06280 – St. Paul’s The Green/PO Box 166 Plains Rd/PO Box 82 860.274.1910 860.423.9653
Westbrook, 06498 – St. Paul’s Windsor, 06095 – Grace S. Main St./PO Box 598 311 Broad Street 860.399.9205 860.688.1232
15 Winsted, 06098 – St. James’ Yalesville, 06492 – St. John the 160 Main St. Evangelist 860.379.5657 31 Main St./PO Box 464 860.873.9547 Wolcott, 06716 – All Saints’ Boundline Road/PO Box 6015 Yantic, 06389 – Grace 203.879.2800 Chapel Hill Rd./PO Box 126 860.887.2082 Woodbury, 06798 – St. Paul’s Main St., South/PO Box B 203.263.3541
Summer Chapels Ivoryton, St. John’s: A camp and conference center of the Church of the Incarnation, New York
Norfolk, Church of the Transfiguration
Old Saybrook, St. Mary’s-by-the-Sea Chapel: A summer Chapel supported by voluntary offerings from worshipers. Arrangements are made by a committee of cottagers.
West Cornwall, Chapel of St. Joseph and the Angel: Trinity Camp and Conference Center
Chapels of Institutions Armsmear (Home for Ladies), Hartford St. Elisabeth’s Chapel
Berkeley Ctr., New Haven Chapel of St. Luke, the Dean
Camp Washington, Lakeside Transfiguration Chapel, the Bishop
The Choate– Rosemary school, Wallingford Chapel
Kent School, Kent St. Joseph’s Chapel
16 The Commons, Meriden All Saints’ Chapel, the Bishop
Pomfret School, Pomfret The Clark Memorial Chapel
Rectory School (for boys), Pomfret St. Andrews Chapel
Salisbury School (for boys), Salisbury Chapel
Seabury Retirement Community, Bloomfield Chapel
South Kent School (for boys), South Kent St. Michael’s Chapel
Trinity College Hartford Chapel
Wooster School, Danbury James Marshall Memorial Chapel
Summary Cathedral in union with the Convention 1 Parishes in union with the Convention 165 Summer Chapels 4 Chapels of Institutions 13
17 Educational and Charitable Institutions Maintained or conducted by church affiliation corporate and located in Connecticut, but not under the control of the Diocese:
Trinity College, Hartford The Berkeley Divinity School, New Haven Choate-Rosemary School, Wallingford The Kent School Corporation, Kent The Pomfret School, Pomfret The Rectory School, Pomfret St. Thomas’s Day School, Incorporated, New Haven The Salisbury School (for boys), Salisbury The Wooster School, Danbury Episcopal Church at Yale University, New Haven Seabury Retirement Community, Bloomfield Armsmear, A Home for Gentlewoman, Hartford The George Beach Apartments, Hartford The Hunter V. and Elizabeth S. Berg Home, Southport Granbury Memorial Homes, Wethersfield The Liza Huntington Memorial Home, Norwich St. Luke’s Home, Middletown
For information as to object, management, terms of admission, etc., address each institution individually.
18 Clergy in Order of Canonical Residence
As of end-of-year 2014
The date at the left indicates the year of Ordination, if in this Diocese, or the year of reception into the Diocese.
Bishops
Year Name From Ordained Deacon 1943 The Rt. Rev. Morgan Porteus, D.D. CT Bp. Budlong 09/29/43 1966 The Rt. Rev. Clarence N. Coleridge, D. Min.NY Bp. Stark 01/12/61 1968 The Rt. Rev. Andrew D. Smith, D.D. CT Bp. Gray 06/11/68 1974 The Rt. Rev. Arthur E. Walmsley, D. Hum. NY Bp. Nash 06/51 1985 The Rt. Rev. James E. Curry, M.Div. CT Bp. Walmsley 06/06/85 1973 The Rt. Rev. Jeffery W. Rowthorn, D.D. UK Bp. Stockwood 09/62 1998 The Rt. Rev. Laura J. Ahrens, D.Min. Mass Bp. Johnson, 06/01/91 2010 The Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas, Ph.D. Mass Bp. Wissemann, 06/11/88
Year Name From Ordained Deacon 1950 Richard B. Kalter CT Bp. Budlong, June 50 Aaron Manderbach PA Bp. Taitt, May 37 1952 William S. Glazier CT Bp. Gray, June 52 Arthur B. Robertshaw, III CT Bp. Gray, June 52 1953 Jervis S. Zimmerman CT Bp. Gray, March 53 1954 John B. M. Frederick CT Bp. Gray, June 54 1955 Kenneth D. Thomas CT Bp. Gray, June 55 1956 Willoughby Newton CT Bp. Gray, June 56 George W. Razee CT Bp. Gray, June 56 Walter A. Debboli Alb Bp. Richards, May 55 1958 William S. Brison WMass Bp. Lawrence, May 57 Randall C. Giddings NwPa Bp. Sterrett, Sept. 45 Donald H. Peet CT Bp. Gray, June 58 1959 Douglas T. Cooke CT Bp. Gray, June 59 1961 William N. Penfield NJ Bp. Washburn, June 52 Randall S. Harris CT Bp. Gray, June 61 Allan H. O’Neill SD Bp. V. VanDyck, May 54 Edward G. Bierhaus, Jr. Ind Bp. Kirchhoffer, June 57 Robert H. Wellner Be Bp. DeWolfe, April 55 1963 James A. Birdsall LI Bp. DeWolfe, April 57
19 Edward C. Coolidge CT Bp. Gray, June 63 John A. Rogers CT Bp. Gray, June 63 1964 Richardson A. Libby, Jr. WDC Bp. Dun, June 60 Lin K. Robinson NY Bp Gray June 54 David L. Cannon CT Bp. Gray, June 64 1965 R.G.Windsor Spellman WMass Bp. Ragg, May 46 Robert J. Miner RI Bp. Higgins, June 64 1966 George C. Anderhaggen CT Bp. Gray, June 66 Hobart J. Gary LI Bp. Randall, June 47 1967 Edward T. Adkins Mo Bp. Goodwin, Feb. 45 1968 George N. Crocker CT Bp. Gray, June 67 Thomas L. Kilbourn CT Bp. Gray. June 67 Frederick J. Kuhlman CT Bp. Gray, June 67 Thomas F. Beck Nwk Bp. Stark, June 63 Stephen D. Parker PR Bp. Swift, June 67 1969 Robert E. Taylor CT Bp. Esquirol, June 69 Ballard Dorsee WDC Bp. Creighton, June 67 William H. Low NH Bp. Hall, June 65 George E. Hall, Jr. NJ Bp. Banyard, April 57 1970 Robert R. McMurtry Me Bp. Kirkhoffer, May 50 Alfred J. Morris RI Bp. Bloy, Sept. 66 Richard R. Hadden CT Bp. Esquirol, June 70 1971 Richard VanWely Alb Bp. Brown, June 62 David A. Pople CT Bp. Hutchens, June 71 Donald D. Gardner Mass Bp. Washburn, June 54 Robert W. Merchant Mil Bp. Burroughs, June 63 Steven E. Hulme Ia Bp. Smith, June 59 1972 Andrew W. Fiddler Nwk Bp. Stark, June 68 Edward G. Goetz CT Bp. Hutchins, June 72 Richard T. Nolan Mass Bp. Burgess, June 63 1973 Richard A. Ellis WNY Bp. Hall, Feb. 57 Borden W. Painter, Jr. NY Bp. Donegan, June 63 G. Kirkpatrick CT Bp. Hutchens, June 73 Donald R. Lillpopp VT Bp. Lawrence, June 59 William D. Loring NY Bp. Banyard, Dec. 65 1974 Robert E. Deming NH Bp. Higgins, June, Russell L. Deragon RI Bp. Gray, June 54 Peter E. Bushnell CT Bp. Hutchens, June 74 William N. Tedesco CT Bp. Hutchens, June 74 John W. Rick, II Mo Bp. Cadigan, June 74 Bruce M. Shipman NY Bp. Donegan, June 68 1975 Mark A. DeWolf LI Bp. Ellison, May 59 Marcus B. Rogers NY Bp. Donegan, June 66
20 Ronald S. Gauss NWT Bp. Henton, May 72 Malcolm Roberts, III CT Bp. Hutchens, June 75#8 1976 Francis C. Howard WMass Bp. Whitsey, Oct. 57 Michael J.R. Tessman CT Bp. Hutchens, June 76 Raynor W. Andersen NY Bp. Donegan, June 70 1977 Peter D. Quinn RI Bp. Belden, Dec.73 Ronald A. Glaude CT Bp. Hutchens, June 77 1978 Richard L. Aiken NH Bp. Goodwin, June 56 Christopher L. Rose Bp. Porteus, June 78 David A. Owen Chi Bp. Burroughs, June 62 David G. Pritchard Ga Bp. Dun, June 54 Richard E. Mayberry NY Bp. Voegeli, June 71 Barbara West Dal Bp. Davies, June 75 1979 Arthur H. Underwood VA Bp. Dun, June 50 Donald R. Page NJ Bp. Banyard, April 71 William P. Morton PA Bp. DeWitt, June 70 Raymond L. Cox CT Bp. Porteus, June 9 79 James G. Wilson LI Bp. Sherman, June 67 1980 Ralph T. Durgin Me Bp. Sherman, June 72 Julia M. Gatta CT Bp. Porteus, June 80 Erik W. Larsen CT Bp. Porteus, June 80 Peter A. Stebinger CT Bp. Porteus, June 80 Richardson W. Schell Chi Bp. Montgomery, May 76 James G. Bradley WVa Bp. Atkinson, June 75 David W. Brown Vt Bp. Gray, June 59 Peter R. Rodgers WMass Bp. Sherman, June 69 1981 John G. Macort, Jr. SeFla Bp. Armstrong, June 63 Andrea Smith CT Bp. Walmsley, June 81 Katheryn Keene-Babcock CT Bp. Walmsley, June 81 Priscilla M. Williams CT Bp. Walmsley, June 81 Kyle M. McGee WDC Bp. Blanchard, June 67 Elizabeth P. Rogers CT Bp. Walmsley, Dec. 81 1982 Burton MacLean Eur Bp. Kennedy, Aug. 59 Roger B. White CT Bp. Walmsley, June 82 Malcolm B. Greenlee CT Bp. Walmsley, June 82 Armand A. LaVallee RI Bp. Higgins, June 59 Richard H. Mansfield SO Bp. Donegan, Dec. 65 Robert G. Carroon Mil Bp. Hallock, April 62 David A. Norris CT Bp. Hastings, Oct. 82 1983 Magar Bedrosian RI Bp. Hatch, June 58 Andrew L.C.C. Jones WVa Bp. Atkinson, June 74 Ruth H. Bersin CT Bp. Walmsley, June 83 Brendan P. McCormick (rec’d as deacon from RC Church) June 83
21 Clark F. Coughlin Alb Bp. Hogg, Oct. 80 Victor A. Rogers Miss Bp. Evans, July 69 Gilbert S. Larsen NY Bp. Donegan, June 68 John B. Kelley Va Bp. Scarlett, May 53 Barry W. Miller NJ Bp. Cole, June 66 Jerome W. Meachen Ga Bp. Hargrave, June 67 C. Jon Widing Del Bp. DeWitt, June 66 1984 William Loutrel Ind(1978) Bp. Porteus, June 78 Joseph A. Krasinski NY Bp. Moore, June 82 Carl P. Daw, Jr. SVa Bp. Vache, June 81 Patricia F. Davidson LI Bp. Witcher, June 83 Robert L. Ficks III CT Bp. Walmsley, June 84 Mary Anne Ciriello CT Bp. Walmsley, June 84 Kent C. Smith CT Bp. Walmsley, June 84 Annika L. Warren CT Bp. Walmsley, June 84 Rosalie N. Richards NY Bp. Moore, June 81 Eleanor Lee McGee WDC Bp. Creighton, Oct. 74 Bernardo Lora NY Bp. Wetmore, April 79 Molly O. Louden CT Bp. Walmsley, Sept. 84 William J. Eakins WMass Bp. Hatch, June 69 1985 Zane W. Gordy Mo Bp. Mead, June 69 Peter R. Powell, Jr. WDC Bp. Krumm, June 76 Roddey Reid, Jr. NY Bp. Gravatt, Feb. 44 Michael F. Ray Alb Bp. Mason, June 69 Henry C. Burdick CT Bp. Walmsley, June 85 Ellen L. Tillotson ND Bp. Hopkins, July 83 1986 Robert J. Duval CT Bp. Walmsley, June 86 Thomas J. Furrer CT Bp. Walmlsey, June 86 Anne C. Seddon CT Bp. Walmsley, June 86 Anne B. Kimball CT Bp. Walmsley, June 86 Margaret H. Minnick Be Bp. Gressle, March 82 George W. Jenkins NJ Bp. Stark, June 65 Joyce M. Scales CT Bp. Walmsley, Dec. 86 Malcolm M. Barnum CT Bp. Walmsley, Dec. 86 Richard Beattie CT Bp. Walmsley, Dec. 86 1987 Richard F. Tombaugh Mo Bp. Street, June 58 Bennett A. Brockman CT Bp. Walmsley, June 87 Mary Ann Logue CT Bp. Walmsley, June 87 JoAnn R. Munro CT Bp. Walmsley, June 87 Barbara E. Nixon CT Bp. Walmsley, June 87 Jane B. Stickney CT Bp. Walmsley, June 87 James R. Wheeler WNY Bp. Burt, June 79 Mary Ann Mann Pa Bp. Ogilby, June 84
22 Mark R. Wood FtW Bp. Davies, June 85 1988 Roger Alling, Jr. Be Bp. Carpenter, June 59 Overton W. Gilkes I Bp. Mandeville, Dec. 56 Charles L. Hoffman Mass Bp. Montgomery, June 68 T. Preston Kelsey II Cal Bp. Pike, June 61 H. Bacon Collamore CT Bp. Walmsley, Dec. 88 George R. Ronkowitz (rec’d as priest from RC Church) Dec. 88 1989 James L. Kellaway WVa Bp. Sherman, June 77 John R. Gilchrist Mo Bp. Murray, June 67 Hope H. Adams CT Bp. Walmsley, June 89 Ann S. Charles CT Bp. Walmsley, June 89 Debra A. Dodd CT Bp. Walmsley, June 89 Bartlett W. Gage CT Bp. Walmsley, June 89 Patricia M. Hames CT Bp. Walmsley, June 89 Leander S. Harding Mass Bp. Wolf, Dec. 80 Pierre Wolff (rec’d as priest from RC Church) Nov. 89 1990 Charles L. Hoffman Mass Bp. Montgomery, June 68 Ellendale M. Hoffman Mass Bp. Brown, June 76 Jeffrey S. Dugan SVa Bp. Wolf, May 80 John L.C. Mitman Ia Bp. Hall, June 65 Cynthia Clark Knapp CT Bp. Walmsley, June 90 Patricia M.E. Portley CT Bp. Walmsley, June 90 Peter Hancock Vaughn CT Bp. Walmsley, June 90 Robert W. Cudworth CT Bp. Walmsley, Dec. 90 Karen C. Fedorchak CT Bp. Walmsley, Dec. 90 Patricia C. Joy CT Bp. Walmsley, Dec. 90 Bruce Mason CT Bp. Walmsley, Dec. 90 Scott J. Stevens CT Bp. Walmsley, Dec. 90 1991 John H. Branson Nwk (1974) Bp. Smith, June 74 Sandra A. Belcher Mass Bp. Coburn, June 85 Joanne L. Neel-Richard Fla Bp. Cerveny, June 88 William P. Veinot Me Bp. Chalfant, June 88 Rachel J.Thomas CT Bp. Walmsley, June 91 Elizabeth C. Lewis CT Bp. Walmsley, Dec. 91 Elena M. Barnum CT Bp. Walmsley, Dec. 91 1992 Joseph L. Pace Tenn Bp. Gates, June 79 Esther L. Chuboff CNY Bp. Whitkker, June 86 Cyril C. Burke NC (1966) Bp. DeWolfe, June 64 Gregory W. Welin CT Bp. Walmsley, June 92 Geoffrey Little CT Bp. Walmsley, June 92 John D. Limpitlaw CT Bp. Walmsley, June 92 Thomas R. White Mass Bp. Appleyard, June 79 Barbara T. Cheney Mich Bp Wolf, June 80
23 1993 Wilborne A. Austin CT Bp. Walmsley, June 93 Nicholas Lang (rec’d as Priest from Ukranian Orthodox Church) Bp. Kushack, 73 Allyn B. Benedict CT Bp. Walmsley, June 93 Gilbert V. Wilkes CT Bp. Walmsley, June 93 Erl G. Purnell CT Bp. Walmsley, August 93 Mark Santucci CP Bp. McNutt, June 82 K. Dexter Cheney Mich Bp. Lewis, June 80 J. Salin Low Pa Bp. Moody, June 90 Jeffery H. Walker Tex Bp. Richardson, June 75 George C. Brower Tenn Bp. Donegan, June 63 Sherrill Scales NY Bp. Hobson, June 57 1995 Lynne A. Griffo Pa Bp. Walker, June 90 Sandra H. Stayner Pgh Bp. Hathaway, June 90 Terry M. Wysong CT Bp. Coleridge, June 95 R.C. Hooper CT Bp. Coleridge, June 95 Richard M. Silbereis NC Bp. Garver, June 87 1996 Kathleen Adams-Shepherd CNY Bp. Coburn, June 82 Robert M.Hall WVa Bp. Sherman, June 71 Julie Kelsey CT Bp Coleridge, June 96 David M. Carter NH (1986) Bp. Walmsley, June 86 Donald F. Allen CT Bp Coleridge, June 96 Marjorie R. S. Roccoberton CT Bp Coleridge, June 96 Hugh W. Tudor Foley CT Bp. Coleridge, Oct. 92 1997 Alan N. Mason SO Bp. Higgins, June 63 Dana Lou Campbell CT Bp. Coleridge, June 97 Jaclyn S. Sheldon CT Bp. Coleridge, June 97 Everett C. Perine NJ Bp. Kerr, June 86 1998 Patricia A. Oglesby PA Bp. W.H. Clark, June 77 Harry A. Elliott WNY Bp. Bowman, Feb. 87 Bruce N. Torrey Roch Bp. Witcher, June 81 David F. Gurniak Fla (1961) Bp. Roberts, May 59 Nihal Delanerolle MN Bp. McNairy John F. Carter NY Bp. Coburn, June 1, 85 Harry L. Knisely Ia Bp. Stevenson, June 69 Robert W. Watson Md (1994) Bp. Gray, June 56 Ellen B. McKinley NJ (1980) Bp. Walmsley, Dec. 80 Daniel E. Mattila MN Bp. Jelinek, Sept. 94 Matthew R. Lincoln WDC Bp. R.H. Haines Eloise E. Adams CT Bp. Coleridge, Dec. 98 Mary-Lloyd Brainard CT Bp. Coleridge, Dec. 98 1999 Christopher Leighton Mass Bp. Appleyard, Sep. 79 Richard Mallory NY Bp. Donegan, June 71 Christopher L. Webber NY Bp. DeWolfe, Apr. 56
24 Kathleen Dorr LI Bp. Walker, June 95 Mary Ann Osborn FL Bp. Cerveny, June 86 Virginia K. Hummel NJ Bp. McKelvey, June 94 Andrew G. Osmun Vt Bp. Appleyard, Oct 75 Judith S. Green Lex Bp. EW Jones, June 96 Robert K. Stuhlmann NJ Bp. Burgess, Nov 71 Allen, Russell H Mil (1968) Bp. Gray, June 68 June White-Hassler CT Bp. Smith, Sept. 99 Anthony Dinoto CT Bp. Coleridge, June 99 Mary Gates CT Bp. Coleridge, June 99 2000 James R. Low Mass Bp. Stokes, June 69 William E. Hardwick Los Bp. Talton, June 92 Charles M. Baker, Jr. SC Bp. Haynesworth, June 87 Kurt J. Huber MI Bp. Wood, June 98 Halsey Stevens RI (1965) Bp. Gray, June 65 Joan P. Phelps WMass (1990)Bp. Walmsley, June 90 Anna S. Pearson Mass Bp. Johnson, May 92 Nancy Gossling CT Bp. Smith, June 00 Donald Hamer CT Bp. Smith, June 00 Linda Spiers CT Bp. Smith, June 00 DeOla Barfield CT Bp. Smith, Dec. 02 Donald Richey CT Bp. Smith, Dec. 02 Robert Sireno CT Bp. Smith, Dec. 00 Jose Mestre’ CT Bp. Smith, Dec. 00 2001 Wectnick Paul Hai Bp. Garnier, Sept. 77 Robert J. Brooks WDC Bp. Bailey, June 73 Mark E.Given Pa Bp. Morton, June 89 David A. Feyrer Be Bp. Warnecke, June 69 Margaret E. Normann NY Bp. Dennis, June 93 Robert E. Friedrich NH Bp. Moore, June 86 R. Sherman Beattie IN (1952) Bp. Gray, June 52 Amy M. Eagan Nwk Bp. McElvey, June 99 Marston Price Mass Bp. Cochrane, Aug 82 Robert E. Black HSB Bp. Lichtenberger, June 57 Daniel Morgan Ga (1993) Bp. Walmsley, June 93 Ellen Huber CT Bp. Smith, June 01 Horace Johnson CT Bp Smith, June 01 Erich Anderson-Krengel CT Bp. Smith, June 01 Vicki Davis CT Bp. Smith, June 01 2002 Marian Stinson Los Bp. Borsch, June 91 John M. Miller MA Bp. Creighton, June 68 Donald F. Thompson Alg Bp of Algoma, Canada Helen M. Moore Chi Bp. Johnson, May 92
25 Barbara Conners OR Bp. Ladehoff, Dec. 96 Marilyn L.C. Anderson CT Bp. Smith, June 02 Harlon L. Dalton CT Bp. Smith, June 022 Valerie W. Dixon CT Bp. Smith, June 02 Kathryn Green-McCreight CT Bp. Smith, June 02 Malinda M.E. Johnson CT Bp. Smith, June 02 Ellen K.G. Kennedy CT Bp. Smith, June 02 Susan J. McCone CT Bp. Smith, June 02 Alice A. Mindrum CT Bp. Smith, June 02 Eleanor V. A. Terry CT Bp. Smith, June 02 Stephen Klots Mass Bp. Shaw, June 00 Victoria Miller NY Bp. Grein, June 90 Moses Aderibole Nigeria Bp. Aderin, June 86 Andrew Zeman (1971) SVa Bp. Hutchens, Dec 71 Gail Keenney-Mulligan Okla Bp. Spears, May 84 Estelle Webb Be Bp. Marshall, Oct 96 Michel Belt Nwk Bp. McKelvey, June 97 2003 Frederick Crysler Ky Bp. DeWitt, June 68 Elizabeth D.U. Starbuck Tex Bp. Sterling, June 93 Robert M. Stocksdale SD Bp. Heistand, June 91 Alsid de Chambeau LI Bp. Brady, June 61 Daniel Heischman WDC Bp. Krumm, May 76 James A. Mulligan OK R.C. Church, June 55 Jose A. Diaz PR Bp. Froylan, July 87 Marilyn Gilbert EMich Bp. Beidel, Jr., July 98 Donna Downs CT Bp. Smith, June 03 Joan E. Fittz CT Bp. Smith, Dec. 03 Diane L. Hovey CT Bp. Smith, Dec. 03 Agnes R. Johnson CT Bp. Smith, Dec. 03 Carolyn C. Legg CT Bp. Smith, Dec. 03 Gary A. Mongillo CT Bp. Smith, Dec. 03 Kyle W. Pedersen CT Bp. Smith, Dec. 03 Cathy J. Puskarz CT Bp. Smith, Dec. 03 Kate Heichler CT Bp. Smith, June 03 Tracy Johnson CT Bp. Smith, June 03 Audrey Scanlon CT Bp. Smith, June 03 David Stayner CT Bp. Smith, June 03 2004 Jonathan H. Folts WTex Bp. Folts, June 96 Richard Maxwell NY Bp Grein , February 99 Kimberly S. Folts WTex Bp. McNutt, Jr., June 04 Godwin Agbo Kaduna Bp. Robert C. Hooper Mass Bp. Coleridge, June 95 Andrea Bowlby Mass Bp. June 04
26 Elizabeth Bagioni CT Bp. Smith, June 04 John Burton CT Bp. Smith, June 04 Maureen Peitler-Lederman CT Bp. Smith, June 04 Amy Welin CT Bp. Smith, June 04 2005 J. Allison St. Louis WDC Bp. Dixon, January 01 Paul Carling VT Bp. Ely, December 02 James D. Cooke SO Bp. Thompson, Jr., June 98 Judith A. Cowper Be Bp. Walmsley, June 92 Nicholas T. Porter Eur Bp. Coleridge, June 94 Geoffrey Hahneman SVa Bp. Cilley, June 80 Lisa DiNunno Mass Bp. Bane, Jr., June 99 Stanley C. Kemmerer Mass Bp. Butterfield, June 69 Javier Franco Bp. Merino, October 84 2005 Evette E. Austin CT Bp. Smith, June 05 Angela H. Rowley CT Bp. Smith, June 05 Heidi M. Truax CT Bp. Smith, June 05 Margaret H. Sullivan CT Bp. Smith, June 05 Diane R. Caggiano CT Bp. Smith, September 05 Marguerite W. Gillen CT Bp. Smith, September 05 Knute C. Hansen CT Bp. Smith, September 05 Amy L. Reichman CT Bp. Smith, September 05 2006 Lynda Tyson CT Bp. Chilton, December 05 Molly James ME Bp. Chilton, December 05 Robert Ross CA Bp. Johnson, February 93 John Corbiere Mass Bp. Porteus, January 79 Lois Keen Pa Bp. Townsend, January 99 Scott Lee Ark Bp. Sanders, December 92 Audrey Murdock Cpa Bp. McLeod, October 00 Bryan S. Bywater CT Bp. Smith, June 06 Carol Ann Hoidra CT Bp. Smith, June 06 Douglass T. Lind CT Bp. Smith, June 06 Angela H. Rowley CT Bp. Curry, January 06 Margaret H. Sullivan CT Bp. Smith, January 06 Heidi M. Truax CT Bp. Ramos-Orench, Jan. 06 Robert J. Boulter CT Bp. Smith, December 06 Nicki S. Kimes CT Bp. Smith, December 06 2007 Ismail Shahrokh Dezhbod, Deacon, (tran. from the Dio. of Jerusalem & the Middle East) Molly P. McGreevy NY Bp. Moore, June 89 Patricia Marie Therese Starrs Cunningham CT Bp. Smith June 07 Mary Jane Donohue CT Bp. Smith June 07 Ronald James Kolanowski CT Bp. Smith June 07 Ian Stephen Markham CT Bp. Smith June 07 José Lino Martínez González CT Bp. Smith June 07
27 Susan Elizabeth Cavanagh Wyper CT Bp. Smith June 07 Max A. Myers WNY Bp. Garrison, December 99 Alex Dyer MN Bp. Jelinek, June 05 Carolyn Sue Archer CT Bp. Smith September 07 Doreen Ann Bottone CT Bp. Smith September 07 Douglas Brian Engwall CT Bp. Smith September 07 Lee Forshaw CT Bp. Smith September 07 Nancy Elizabeth Gage CT Bp. Smith September 07 Donna Claire Wodarek Gray CT Bp. Smith September 07 Christopher Michael Holms CT Bp. Smith September 07 Patricia Gladys Jackson CT Bp. Smith September 07 Elizabeth Ann Knauff CT Bp. Smith September 07 Edrice Veronica Viechweg CT Bp. Smith September 07 Richard C. Alton PA Bp. Walmsley, June 88 2008 Elsa H. Worth NH Bp. Robinson, December 06 David R. Anderson PA Bp. Griswold, June 89 Allison Read NY Bp. Sisk, March 03 Peter W. Floyd VT Bp. Francis, June 65 Catharine Randall RG Bp. Steenson June 07 Randall Balmer RG Bp. Steenson May 06 Grace Pritchard Burson CT Bp. Smith June 08 Sandra Lee Cosman CT Bp. Smith June 08 Bret Bowie Hays CT Bp. Smith June 08 Lucy Driscoll LaRocca CT Bp. Smith June 08 Rita Teschner Powell CT Bp. Smith June 08 Dawn Marie Stegelmann CT Bp. Smith June 08 John A. Satula CNY Bp. Adams November 06 Lee Ann D. Tolzmann MD Bp. Ihloff June 01 2009 Mary A. Canavan RI Bp. Ladhoff May 99 Peter F. Walsh AZ Bp. Grein 94 E. Bevan Stanley Nwk Bp. Walmsley June 83 Barbara K. Briggs WMA Bp. Scruton June 07 Paul A. Jacobson CT Bp. Smith June 09 Debra K. A. Slade CT Bp. Smith June 09 W. Alfred Tisdale, Jr. CT Bp. Smith June 09 Leigh Preston ATL Bp. Alexander Dec. 06 Andrew W. Walter NY Bp. Sisk March 07 Paul R. Briggs WMA Bp. Wolf June 81 Suzannah Rohman VA Bp. Creighton June 99 Robert P. Clements WMA Bp. Moodey June 85 Rev. Kristina D. Lewis VT Bp. Ely June 05 Linda S. Arsenie CT Bp. Smith June 09 Diane M. Peterson CT Bp. Smith June 09
28 Elizabeth H. Skaleski CT Bp. Smith June 09 Joseph E. Shepley NY Bp. Buchanan June 96 James D. Speer MN Bp. Of the Yukon November 79 Alma H. Pollock WMA Bp. Stuart June 82 Robert W. Woodroofe, III MA Bp. Kellogg June 68 2010 Victoria Evelyn Baldwin CT Bp. Douglas June 10 Eric Vincent Jeuland CT Bp. Douglas June 10 Jane Catherine Eppley Jeuland CT Bp. Douglas June 10 David Kevin McIntosh CT Bp. Douglas June 10 Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio CT Bp. Douglas June 10 Amanda K. Gott NH Bp. O'Neill June 05 James B. Lemler CHI Bp. Sheridan June 76 Judith Rhodes PA Bp. Johnson June 93 Judith Alexis OH Bp. Ottley July 06 Nathan Speck-Ewer ECR Bp. Smith 02 2011 Ann J. Broomell FL Bp. Harris June 95 Kathleen H. Berkowe NY Bp. Sisk March 10 Sharon K. Gracen LA Bp. Waynick June 10 Ann Ritonia VA Bp. Lee May 08 Carmen Christine Germino CT Bp. Douglas June 11 Juliusz Siegmond Jodko CT Bp. Douglas June 11 Kristin Elizabeth Kaulbach Miles CT Bp. Douglas June 11 Alan Cameron Murchie CT Bp. Douglas June 11 Carolyn Jackson Sharp CT Bp. Douglas June 11 Edgar Garland Taylor CT Bp. Douglas June 11 Cynthia Stravers WMI Bp. Gibbs June 09 R. Harrison West WA Bp. Ladehoff May 91 Mark K. J. Robinson OH Bp. Chalfant 88 Mark H. Byers SD Bp. Smith 01 Adam Yates CHI Bp. Lee June 10 Denise McGovern Adessa CT Bp. Ahrens September 11 Dennis Edward Kane CT Bp. Ahrens September 11 Thomas Nicholas Mariconda CT Bp. Ahrens September 11 2012 John Donnelly NWK Bp. Black June 81 Kerith Harding OR Bp. Hampton May 09 Steven Domienik SHO Bp. Breidenthal June 08 Edward D. Pardoe NY Bp. Sisk March 09 Steven C. Ling BTH Bp. Marshall March 07 Colin M. Chapman CT Bp. Curry June 12 John M. Gilpin CT Bp. Curry June 12 Keith A. Voets CT Bp. Curry June 12 J. Hugh A. James July 2012 (transfer from St David’s Diocese, Province of Wales) Bonnie Anderson CT Bp. Ahrens September 12
29 Emily Phillips CT Bp. Ahrens September 12 2013 Timothy Hodapp MN Bp. Jelinek January 10 Esmail Dezhbod CT Bp. Curry November 13 Rowena J. Kemp CT Bp. Douglas June 13 Eddie Lopez BTH Bp. Marshall June 11 Ann Lovejoy Johnson WV Bp. Gibbs Jr. December 01 Jose E. Irizarry PR Whitney Altopp Nwk Bp. Adams III June 02 George Roberts USC Bp. Henderson May 09 Frank Tuchols CT Bp. Douglas August 13 Mark Lingle CT Bp. Douglas October 13 2014 Patricia Pasley CT Bp. Douglas January 14 Michael Edward Carroll CT Bp. Curry Mary 14 Patrick Bush CT Bp. Curry March 14 Kim Jeanne Litsey CT Bp. Ahrens October 14 Robert Bergner (Received from Diocese of Montreal, Canada) November 14 Diana M. Rogers MN Bp. Whitmore January 08 Hilary Greer NY Bp. Sisk March 11 Richard Meadows CFL Bp. Hollerith IV June 11 Adam Thomas Mass Bp. Klusmeyer December 07 Marissa Rohrbach PA Bp. Bennison January 12 Patricia Coller WMA Bp. Tennis September 91 Stephanie McDyre Johnson NY Bp. Sisk March 10 Robert Emmons Neville ECR Bp. Gray-Reeves January 13
30 Lay Delegates & Alternates Attending Convention 2014
Ansonia – Christ Cheshire – St. Peter’s Sharon Samela, William Banks Nancy Darius, Barbara Sireno, Thom Peters, Charles Dimmick Bantam – St. Paul’s Greg Breault Clinton – Holy Advent Marha Tolan-Wilbur Bethany – Christ Les Molnar, Rosalie Molnar Collinsville – Trinity Keith Viering, Karanne Farling Bethel – St. Thomas’ Fred Scipione, Deborah Bochnewich Danbury – St. James’ Linda Harrison Bethlehem – Christ Nancy Skilton Darien – St. Luke’s Martha Cook, Frank Kemp Bloomfield – Old St. Andrew’s Patti Penney Darien – St. Paul’s Judy Robson, Alberto Daniels Branford – Trinity James Atkinson, Jay Pottenger Derby – Immanuel St. James’ Elaine Beseescheck Bridgeport – Calvary & St. George’s Michele King-Vasquez Durham – Church of the Epiphany Bob Bartosiak, Lynda Beichner Bridgeport – St. John’s Valzie Peterkin, Pamela Williams East Berlin – St. Gabriel’s Jennifer Berthiaume Bridgeport – St. Mark’s William Barfield, Jean Salter, Ken East Haddam – St. Stephen’s Dougherty Lloyd Neudecker, Gray Sawyer
Bristol – St. John’s East Hartford – All Saints Carol Reeves Sally Moore
Broad Brook – Grace East Hartford – St. John’s Ronald Gregary Sandra McGraw, Shirley Finney
Brookfield – St. Paul’s East Haven – Christ & Epiphany David Szen Carol Link-Ude, Judi Abruoso
Brooklyn – Trinity East Windsor – St. John’s Alice Ennis, Elizabeth Beach Elizabeth Silva
Easton – Christ Diane McCann
31 Enfield – Holy Trinity Hartford – St. Martin’s Peter Jacobson, Brenda Roy Delores Dunn, Denise Welsh
Essex – St. John’s Hartford – St. Monica’s Suzy Burke, Richard Lammlin Bates Lyons, Terri Thomas, Walter Benjamin Fairfield – St. Paul’s Christine Brown, Stephanie Johnson, Hartford – Trinity James Turner Kenneth Rousseau, Marie Alford- Harkey, Barbara Morton Fairfield – St. Timothy’s Chip Campbell Hebron – St. Peter’s Marianne Marsh, Brian Swanson Fairfield - Trinity/St. Michael’s Earl Dugan Higganum – St. Jame’s Cheryl Czuba Farmington – St. James’ Mimi Hostetter, Todd Root Huntington – St. Paul’s Pauline Dyer Gales Ferry – St. David’s Cady Ann, Jill Foster Kent – St. Andrew’s Lynn Perry, Jeffery West Glastonbury – St. James’ Ed Crow, Becky Lee, Albert Killingworth – Emmanuel Mollegen Marilyn Barnett
Greenwich – Christ Lime Rock – Trinity Ken Mifflin, Dick Hollister Geoffrey Brown, Danielle Gaherty, Beverly Becker Greenwich – St. Barnabas’ Bill Galvin, Ellen Galvin Litchfield – St. Michael’s Mary Loyer, Meredith Penfield Guilford – Christ Jean Valentine, Caroline Herrick, Madison – St. Andrew’s Rhoda Whitman, Edward Seibert Ray Hencir, Susan Miller
Hamden – Grace & St. Peter’s Manchester – St. Mary’s William Hart III, Kurt Acker Andrea Burr, Valerie Huestis
Hartford – Christ Church Cathedral Meriden – All Saints Rose Fichera-Eagen, Lucy Groening Bertha Sasso
Hartford – Good Shepherd Meriden – St. Andrew’s Maria Montanez Liz Rodie Jones, Leonidas Jones
Hartford – Grace Middle Haddam – Christ Paul Kline, Bill Pascucci Willie Fuqua, Sandy Beatty
32 Middlebury – St. George’s New Haven – St. Thomas’ Sally Ploski Dorothy Asch
Middletown – Holy Trinity New Haven – Trinity Diane Reid, Ronald Reid Murray Harrison
Milford – St. Peter’s New London – St. James’ Debbi Smith, Stephen Winters Grace Barnum, Sue Chojnacki
Milton – Trinity New Milford – St. John’s Eileen Litwin Kim Polhemus, Jessica Keizer, Flora E. Quammie Monroe – St. Peter’s Marilee Prusaczyk, Jennifer Read Newington – Grace Beverley Manning, Karen Halpert Mystic – St. Mark’s Pam Montgomery Newtown – Trinity Barbara Chamberlain, George Naugatuck – St. Michael’s Rockwell Kara Euvino, Frank Euvino Niantic – St. John’s New Britain – St. Mark’s Chester Fairlie G. Norman Holland, Garrett Holland, Barbara Campbell, Bob Kissel North Branford – Zion Ann McGloin New Canaan – St. Mark’s Ann Fuller, Jill Sautkulis North Guilford – St. John’s Kathleen Powers New Haven – Christ Nancy Horn, Stephen Young North Haven – St. John’s Joan Hunt, Beth Devoe, Joseph New Haven – St. Andrew’s Carafeno, Gayle Maynard Joseph Carroll, Autumn Sands- Caldwell Norwalk – Christ Don Burr New Haven – St. James’ R. Fabian Ortiz, Peter Treffers Norwalk – St. Paul’s Katherine Adamson, Anne Watkins New Haven – St. John’s Ruth Lively, Grace Kim Norwich - Christ Episcopal Mary Elizabeth New Haven – St. Luke’s Mary Freeman, Valerie Stanley Oakville – All Saints’ Spike Panilaitis New Haven – St. Paul’s & St. James’ Felix Rivera, Nancy Noyes Old Greenwich – St. Saviour’s Rose-Ann Moore
33 Old Lyme – St. Anne’s Seymour – Trinity Anne Rowthorn Leslie Sojka, Janice Schuck
Old Saybrook – Grace Sharon – Christ Phil Bjornberg, David Kirpas Cathy Casey
Orange – Good Shepherd Simsbury – St. Albans Linda Cleaver, William Cleaver, Sharon Braden Joseph Scaglia South Glastonbury – St. Luke’s Oxford – St. Peter’s Judy Nokes, Hayden Pratt, Barbara Jennifer Stegmaier Howard, James Aresco
Pine Meadow – St. John’s South Windsor – St. Peter’s Anne Hall Martha Houlroyd, Peter Brin
Plainville – Our Saviour Southbury – Epiphany Foster White, Stephen Karwowski Vicki Braucci
Pomfret – Christ Southington – St. Paul’s Sky Bridgman, Caroline Sloat Kurt Ryder, Bob Riendeau
Preston – St. James (Poquetanuck) Southport – Trinity Robert Peck, Ian Sharpe Steven Smith
Putnam – St. Phillip’s Stafford Springs – Grace Susan Moon Herb Kingsbury
Quaker Farms – Christ Stamford – Christ the Healer Robert Thiel Peter Romersa
Redding – Christ Stamford – L’Eglise de l’Ephanie Connie Borofsky, Carol Keil Episcopale Stephanie Dieudonne, Patricia Ridgefield – St. Stephen’s Chery Eleanor Arnold, Tom Katzenbach Stamford – St. Andrew’s Riverside – St. Paul’s Gloria Morrow Ken Rogozinski, Linda Porter Stamford – St. John’s Rocky Hill – St. Andrew Apostle Sylvia Sterns, Denise Wade John Woolley, Jaine Fiedler Stonington – Calvary Roxbury – Christ Shirley Wick Barbara Dratch, Carol Stearns Storrs – St. Mark’s Salisbury – St. John’s James Morrow David Bayersdorfer
34 Stratford – Christ Wethersfield – Trinity Marian Knight, Susan Hovan Jessie Karpf, Kathryn Cole
Tariffville – Trinity Willimantic – St. Paul’s Henry Rau, Edmond Gaidos Noreen Nadile, Andrew Seeling
Thomaston – St. Peter’s/Trinity Wilton – St. Matthews Daniel Seabourne Sharon Pearson
Torrington – Trinity Windham – St. Paul’s Mary Hart, Rober Coutant Dana Kessler, Donna Barra
Trumbull – Trinity Windsor – Grace Arlene Stalvey Pat Ould, Dayna Reardon
Vernon – St. John’s Wolcott – All Saints’ Connie Satton, Barbara Cambria Ouida Green
Wallingford – St. Paul’s Woodbury – St. Paul’s Andrew Bravo, Kristin Liu Duke Breon, Barbara Grant, Mahlon Breon, Jr. Washington – St. John’s Elizabeth O’Connor Yalesville – St. John the Evangelist Bryon Birtha, Diane Birtha Waterbury – St. John’s Don Pomeroy, Carolyn Parler-McRae, Yantic – Grace Osvaldo Pagan John Baldwin
West Hartford – St. James’ David Dynowski, Ann Cooke
West Hartford – St. John’s David Beers, Melissa Render, Colin Gillespie, Lynn Brooks, Bradford Babbitt
West Haven – Holy Spirit Gene Leitermann, Nancy Staniewicz
Westbrook – St. Paul’s Dave Cahill
Weston – Emmanuel Betsy Ready
Westport – Christ & Holy Trinity Mark Moyer, Kent Thomas
35 Minutes of the 230th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
Friday, October 24, 2014 CoCo Key Resort Waterbury, Connecticut
In accordance with the Constitution of the Diocese of Connecticut, the Two Hundred and Thirtieth Annual Convention of the Diocese was held on Friday, October 24 and Saturday, October 25, 2014, in a place designated by the Bishop with the consent of the Diocesan Executive Council, viz, the CoCo Key Resort in Waterbury, Connecticut. Following check- in, the Convention was called to order at 3:00 PM by the President of the Convention, the Rt. Rev. Ian Douglas, Bishop of Connecticut.
Bishop Douglas made opening remarks and then requested that the Rev. Molly James, Secretary of the Diocese, present the Call of the Roll of Orders.
Roll of Orders The Rev. Molly James presented the Roll of Orders for Convention. Mr. Bates Lyons, Secretary of the Standing Committee, presented and certified the accuracy of the Roll of 312 clerical members of Convention eligible to participate and the Roll of 254 Lay Delegates of Convention eligible to participate.
The Rev. Molly James moved to dispense with the calling of the rolls, and upon vote of the Convention, a roll call was dispensed with. Registration indicated that 139 Clerical members and 118 Lay Delegates were present on Friday afternoon at the start of business, and Bishop Douglas recognized that a quorum was present.
Rules of Order & Order of the Day The Rev. Molly James moved the adoption of the Rules of Order, as published, and upon a vote of the Convention, the Rules of Order were adopted.
The Rev. Molly James moved the adoption of the Order of the Day for the 230th Annual Convention as published. Upon the vote of the Convention, the Order of the Day was adopted.
Nominations for Secretary of the Diocese and Secretary of Convention Bishop Douglas nominated the Rev. Adam Yates for the position of the Secretary of Convention with no other nominations. A motion was made to close the nominations, and after a vote of the Convention, the Rev. Adam Yates was elected as the Secretary of Convention.
36 Bishop Douglas then nominated the Rev. Sandra Cosman for the position of the Secretary of the Diocese with no other nominations. A motion was made to close the nominations, and after a vote of the Convention, the Rev. Sandra Cosman was elected as the Secretary of the Diocese.
Bishop Douglas thanks the Rev. Molly James for her service to the Diocese as the Secretary of the Diocese for the past three years and acknowledged that she will continue and expand her role as the Dean of Formation, working with those who are in the ordination process.
The Rev. Adam Yates thanked the Convention Planning Committee for their work planning the 230th Convention and invited anyone interested to help plan future conventions to join the planning committee. The Rev. Yates recognized special guests of the 230th Convention, including Stephen Lyon, Kath Duce, Canon Phil Groves, as well as Bishop Dinis & Helena Sengulane. The Rev. Yates then presented and thanked the Assistant Secretaries serving at the Convention: June Aziz, the Rev. Michael Belt, Melissa Lamkin, Carlos de la Torre, and the Rev. Amy Welin . The Rev. Adam Yates then presented the Assistant Tellers serving at the Convention: June Aziz, the Rev. Jose Martinez, Jane Hale, and the Rev. Kate Heichler,
Nominations The Rev. Yates presented the following nominations to committees (new candidates in italics): Cathedral Chapter The Rev. Heidi Truax Heather Jordan-Greaves The Rev. Jack Gilpin June Aziz The Rev. Michel Belt The Rev. Sharon Gracen The Rev. Donna Downs The Rev. Enriqué Irizarry The Rev. Jeffrey Dugan The Rev. Eddie Lopez The Rev. Linda Spiers The Rev. Elsa Worth Thomas Smith
Commission on Liturgy and Music The Rev. Ann Ritonia (chair) Deborah Gemma John M. Armstrong The Rev. William Hardwick The Rev. Canon Robert Brooks The Rev. Ron Kolanowski The Rev. Dana Campbell Wilma Whitley The Rt. Rev. James Curry
37 Commission on Ministry The Rev. Harlon Dalton (Chair) The Rev. CJ Puskarz The Rev. Barbara Briggs John Seibyl Nancy Horn The Rev. Danielle Tumminio The Rev. Tim Hodapp Hansen Martha Hughes The Rev. Keith Voets The Rev. Tom Mariconda The Rev. Maureen Lederman The Rev. David McIntosh Elba Rios
Disciplinary Board: Donna Hyrb (2016) The Rev. Linda Spiers (2015) The Rev. Robert Taylor (2016) Tokunbo Green (2015) The Rev. Joseph Pace (2017) The Rev. LeeAnn Tolzman (2017) Denise Holl (2017) The Rev. Ted Pardoe (2016) Eric Rennie (2015)
The Rev. Yates moved the nominations be approved as presented. There was no discussion and the motion carried.
The Rev. Yates moved that the Bishops be authorized to nominate candidates to these committees between Convention, and for Diocesan Executive Council to approve those nominations. There was no discussion and the motion carried.
Bishop Douglas then recognized the Rev. Harlon Dalton to introduce transitional deacons, new priests, postulants, and candidates in the Diocese. Postulants for the Diaconate Ned Lewis Ron Steed Elaine Sleath Postulants for the Priesthood Philip Bjornberg Melissa Lamkin Nicole Dalto Stephen Nagy Brett Figlewski Seth Reese Jane Hale Tuesday Rupp Nathan Ives Candidates for the Priesthod Carlos de la Torre Peter Johnston New Clergy The Rev. Patrick Bush, Trans. The Rev. Tricia Pasley, Priest Deacon The Rev. Rowena Kemp, Priest The Rev. Michael Carroll, Priest The Rev. Sharokh Dezhbod, Priest The Rev. Kim Litsey, Trans Deacon
38 Bishop Douglas recognized the Rev. Tim Hodapp to recognize clergy new to the Episcopal Church in Connecticut since the Annual Convention in 2013: The Rev. Amjad Samuel, Rector, St. Paul’s – Shelton The Rev. Margaret Finnerud, Assistant, St Barnabas – Greenwich The Rev. David Sellery, Priest-in-Charge, St. John’s – Salisbury The Rev. Joseph Britton, Interim, Christ Church – New Haven The Rev. Gary Sturni, Missional Priest, St. Philip’s – Putnam The Rev. Valerie Miller, Assistant, Church of the Good Shepherd – Hartford The Rev. Leslie Smith, Interim, Trinity – Southport The Rev. Marissa Rohrbach, Rector, St. Andrew’s – Meriden The Rev. Robert Neville, Rector, Christ Church – Tashua The Rev. Diana Rogers, Rector, Church of the Epiphany – Durham The Rev. Ann Lovejoy Johnson, Rector, Trinity – Torrington The Rev. Adam Thomas, Rector, St. Mark’s – Mystic Bishop Douglas recognized Bishop Laura Ahrens for a special report on Camp Washington. Bishop Ahrens spoke about Camp Washington, and thanked Jean Handler for her faithful years of service as the Executive Director. She also noted the formation of the Camp Washington Board of Directors whose Chair is Suzy Burke (St. Johns Essex). The Board will focus on searching for a new Executive Director in the next year as well as offer support and work with the Camp and Conference staff and community in a variety of other ways. Bishop Ahrens will oversee the staff until a new Executive Director is named.
Suzy Burke, President of the Board of Directors at Camp Washington shared remarks about Jean Handler’s service at Camp Washington as the executive director and the search for a new executive director. Suzy Burke made a motion to give thanks to Jean Handler for her long dedication to Camp Washington and to thank God for her many years of committed work on behalf of the Camp and the Church in Connecticut. The motion carried and was followed by applause.
39 Resolutions Bishop Douglas recognized the Rev. Dr. Kris Lewis, chair of the Committee on Faith & Order to introduce the resolutions.
The full text of the resolutions, as adopted, can be found in the supporting documents of this Journal starting on page 50 of this Journal.
Resolution #1 Minimum Salary Schedule for Clergy
The Rev. Kris Lewis moved the resolution. Bishop Douglas asked Lynn Brooks, Treasurer of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut to speak in favor and on behalf of the sponsors. Bishop Douglas invited table discussions on the resolution for five minutes before calling the convention back to order for debate. • Denise Wade, St. John’s Stamford, asked for clarification on the resolution. • The Rev. Mark Robinson, St. Ann’s Old Lyme, spoke against the resolution • The Rev. Peter Stebinger, St. Andrew’s Milford, asked for clarification on the resolution • The Rev. Tim Hodapp, Canon for Mission Leadership, proposed an amendment for the vacation time for all clergy so that it would read, “Five Weeks according to their usual work week.” o A motion was made to lay this resolution on the table for consideration tomorrow at Convention once the wording was corrected. § The motion carried
The resolution was tabled until a time certain.
Resolution #2 Common Mission Support
Bishop Douglas invited Lynn Brooks to give a presentation on the Budget of Convention and our financial resources. Lynn Brooks moved to receive the report and file it in the Journal of the 230th Convention. The motion carried.
The Rev. Kris Lewis moved the resolution. Bishop Douglas invited table discussions on the resolution for five minutes before calling the convention back to order for debate. • The Rev. Suzzana Roman, St. Paul’s Southington, asked for clarification on the resolution • Sharon Pearson, St. Matthew’s Wilton, asked for clarification on the resolution • Chester Faairlie, St. John’s Niantic, spoke in favor of the resolution.
40 The resolution carried.
Bishop Douglas then asked for a moment of silent prayer for a high school student who opened fire at a high school in Seattle, shooting five people, killing one, before taking his own life. Bishop Douglas closed the silent prayer with a collect.
Resolution #3 Budget of Convention
The Rev. Kris Lewis moved the adoption of resolution. Bishop Douglas invited table discussions on the resolution for five minutes before calling the convention back to order for debate. • The Rev. Alex Dyer, St. Paul’s & St. James New Haven, asked for clarification on the resolution • Kurt Ryder, St. Paul’s Southington, asked for clarification on the resolution
The resolution carried.
Resolution #4 Second Consideration of an Amended & Restated Diocesan Constitution
The Rev. Kris Lewis moved the adoption of the resolution. Bishop Douglas invited the Chancellor, Brad Babbitt, to speak to the resolution. The resolution carried.
Resolution #5 Consideration of Revisions to the Diocesan Canons
The Rev. Kris Lewis moved the adoption of the resolution. Bishop Douglas invited the Rev. Robert Taylor, chair of the Disciplinary Board, to speak to the resolution. Bishop Douglas thanked the Rev. Taylor for his service to the Disciplinary Board. The resolution carried.
The Rev. Alex Dyer requested a ten-minute break, but Bishop Douglas declined the request and invited individuals to step out as needed.
Resolution #7 Economic Justice & Income Inequality
The Rev. Kris Lewis moved the adoption of resolution. Bishop Douglas invited table discussions on the resolution for five minutes before calling the convention back to order for debate. • The Rev. Peter Bushnell, Holy Trinity Enfield, Chair of the Social Justice & Advocacy Committee, spoke in favor of the resolution
41 • The Rev. Ron Kolanowski, St. James Preseton, asked for clarification • The Rev. Bevan Stanly, St. Michael’s Litchfield, spoke in favor of the resolution • Ken Rogozinski, St. Paul’s Riverside, spoke against the resolution and amended it to strike “as determined by the Living Wage Calculator, produced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (http://livingwage.mit.edu/states/09)” o There was no discussion and the amendment carried
The resolution carried, as amended.
Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS) Presentation Bishop Laura Ahrens invited Chris George to give a report on IRIS, sharing its history, the relationship with the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, and the state of its current operations. A video presentation was show to the convention.
Bishop Ahrens invited the Rev. Peter Bushnell, Chair of the Board of Directors of IRIS to address the Convention.
Resolution #6 Establishing a Covenant between the Episcopal Church in Connecticut & the Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS)
The Rev. Kris Lewis moved the adoption of resolution. Bishop Ahrens invited table discussions on the resolution for five minutes before calling the convention back to order for debate. • The Rt. Rev. Andrew Smith, Retired Bishop of Connecticut, spoke in favor of the resolution • The Rev. Frank Kirkpatrick, Trinity Hartford, asked for clarification on the resolution
The resolution carried. Bishop Ahrens recognized the staff and board of IRIS.
Resolution #8 Charter for the Safety of Persons within the Churches of the Anglican Communion.
The Rev. Kris Lewis moved the adoption of resolution. Bishop Ahrens invited Bishop Douglas to speak to the resolution as its sponsor. Bishop Ahrens invited table discussions on the resolution for five minutes before calling the convention back to order for debate. • Liz Rodie Jones, St. Andrew’s Meriden, sought clarification on the resolution • David Beers, St. John’s West Hartford, pushed for further clarification on the resolution • The Rev. George Kovoor, St. John’s New haven, spoke in favor of the resolution
42 • Sharon Pearson, St. Matthew’s Wilton, spoke to a previous question about the resolution • The Rev. Keith Voets called the question. o The motion carried and debate closed
The resolution carried.
Resolution #1 Minimum Salary Schedule for Clergy
The Rev. Keith Voets, Canonically Resident Clergy, moved to bring Resolution #1 off the table. The motion carried.
The Rev. Tim Hodapp introduced an amendment to Resolution #1 for the definition of vacation time for part time clergy: Be it resolved that the Treasurers Newsletter be amended in the section titled "Paid time Off" replacing the table and explanations with the following: Replace MP vacation in table with **see below * Five weeks, which may include up to 5 Sundays (at the discretion of the clergy). A week is commensurate to the call and as defined in the Letter of Agreement: (see table below). Vacation Full-time ---- Five weeks Three-Quarter Time ---- Five 3⁄4 time weeks Half-Time----Five 1⁄2 time weeks Less Half-Time (MP) ----Five MP weeks, as delineated in LOA The motion to amend the resolution carried, and the resolution, as amended, carried.
Bishop Ahrens adjourned the Convention until 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 24, 2014 and offered a closing prayer. The Rev. Ann Ritonia led the convention in a closing hymn.
Saturday, October 25, 2014 CoCo Key Water Resort Waterbury, Connecticut
Bishop Douglas called the convention to order and invited the Rev. Adam Yates, Secretary of Convention, to make announcements. The Rev. Yates asked for volunteers for the convention planning committee, announced the location of the 2015 Convention at the Crowne Plaza in Cromwell, CT on November 13-14, and asked for delegates to pick up copies of Crux magazine from the lobby area.
43 The Rev. Ann Ritonia then led Convention in the singing of the hymn, “Called from their labors to learn Jesus’ way,” which is the Diocesan hymn. Bishop Ahrens offered the Opening Sentences, the Collect of the Day, and a time of meditation. Following the meditation, Bishop Ahrens led Convention in a “Dwelling in the Word” exercise on Luke 10:1-9.
Bishop’s Address Bishop Douglas delivered the Bishop’s Address to the Convention. The full text of the Bishop’s Address can be found in the supporting documents on page 78.
The Reimagining of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut The Convention spent time in table conversations, asking questions about what they still yet needed to know or understand in order to participate in the conversation of how the Episcopal Church in Connecticut can better be a Catalyst, Connector, Capability Builder, and Convener. The questions used in the conversations were, “What did you hear today or read in your homework that you need clarified? What do you need in order to get into the TREC-CT conversation?”
Bishop Ahrens then introduced the Litany, led by Carlos de la Torre, David Rivera, Patricia Chery, and Will Cleaver.
The Convention broke for a recess at 10 a.m. and was called together at 10:20 a.m. and Bishop Douglas asked that the Convention thank the staff at CoCo Key for their service.
Bishop Douglas then introduced the Rev. Tim Hodapp, who led the Convention in a presentation on “Participating in God’s Mission and Re-Imagining the Episcopal Church in Connecticut.” Four stories were presented around the topics of Capacity Building, Convening, Connecting, and Catalyzing. The stories were presented by the Rev. Curtis Farr on being Capability Builders; the Rev. Diane Peterson on being a Connector; Sylvia Corrigan (presenting for Kim Polhemus) on being a Catalyst; and Roger Coutant on being Convers.
The Rev. Hodapp introduced the video presentation, “We are Missionaries or We are Nothing” (http://vimeo.com/84250694).
The Rev. Kris Lewis introduced the table conversation portion of the presentation, asking each table to answer the question, “What does the Episcopal Church in Connecticut need to do to catalyze, connect, build capabilities, and convene in order to participate more fully in God’s mission?”
44 Following the table conversations, the Convention celebrated Eucharist and at 12:15 p.m. Convention went into recess until 2 p.m. for lunch.
Bishop Douglas called the Convention to order at 2 p.m. and the Rev. Adam Yates announced the results of the Standing Committee Election: Lay Order: Kim Polhemus (5 years) Clerical Order: the Rev. Tracy Johnson Russell (5 years) & the Rev. Diana Johnson (4 years)
Bishop Douglas recognized the Rev. Kris Lewis to give a report on the results of the table conversations and the work of our collective discernment. The Rev. Lewis laid out the process going forward: • Standing Committee to meet on November 20 to nominate TREC-CT Committee • Transcribe today’s newsprint as data • Further data gathering in Connecticut and at General Convention • Bring recommendation for action to the 231st Annual Convention in 2015
The Rev. Lewis then shared the three most common words that came up with each of the four areas: • Catalyst: Passions, Flexible Leadership, Listening • Connect: Youth, Leadership, Communication • Capability Builder: Listening, Storytelling, Relationships • Convene: Communication, Flexible Format, Purpose
Bishop Douglas then asked that the Convention spend five minutes at tables to discuss and reflect on the experience of the day, both process and content.
Resolution #9 Charge to TREC-CT
The Rev. Kris Lewis moved the adoption of resolution. There was no discussion and the resolution carried.
Resolution #10 Provisions for the Use of Other Forms of Worship
The Rev. Kris Lewis moved the adoption of resolution. Bishop Douglas invited the Rev. Canon Robert Brooks, Diocesan Commission on Liturgy and Music to speak to the resolution.. Bishop Douglas invited table discussions on the resolution for five minutes before calling the convention back to order for debate.
45 • The Rev. William Hardwick, Our Savior Plainville, spoke in favor of the resolution • The Rev. Keith Voets, Canonically Resident Priest, spoke against the resolution • The Rev. Ron Kolanowski, St. James Preston, spoke in favor of the resolution • The Rev. Amanda Gott, Grace & St. Peter’s Hamden, spoke against the resolution • The Rev. George Kovoor, St. John’s New Haven, spoke in favor of the resolution • The Rev. Kate Heichler, Christ the Healer Stamford, spoke in favor of the resolution • The Rev. Bevan Stanley, St. Michael’s Litchfield, spoke in favor of the resolution and requested clarification of Article X of the Constitution of the Episcopal Church • The Rev. Judith Rhodes, St. Paul’s Fairfield, spoke in favor of the resolution
The resolution carried.
Resolution #11 Commend & Advance Baptismal Covenant Language that Reflects our Unity with all Creation
The Rev. Kris Lewis moved the adoption of resolution. Bishop Douglas invited the Rev. Keri Aubert, St. James Glastonbury, as a member of the drafting committee, to speak to the resolution as. Bishop Douglas invited table discussions on the resolution for five minutes before calling the convention back to order for debate. • The Rt. Rev. Jeffrey Rowthor, Bishop Suffragan (retired), spoke in favor of the resolution • The Rev. George Kovoor, St. John’s New Haven, spoke in favor of the resolution • William Cleaver, Church of the Good Shepherd Orange, spoke against the resolution • Elizabeth Massey, St. Mark’s New Canaan, spoke in favor of the resolution • The Rev. Mark Byers, St. Peter’s Trinity Thomaston, offered an amendment to the title to say, “Commend and Advance Baptismal Covenant language that Reflects our Loving Stewardship of All Creation.” o Greg Brault, St. Paul’s Bantam, spoke against the amendment o The amendment failed • The Rev. Paul Carling, St. Paul’s, Fairfield & the Episcopal Church at Yale, called the question. o The motion carried and debate was ended
The resolution carried.
Bishop Douglas turned over the Chair to Bishop Ahrens.
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Resolution #12 To Promote the Use of Gender-Neutral Titles for Priests
The Rev. Kris Lewis moved the adoption of resolution. Bishop Ahrens invited the Rev. Paul Carling, St. Paul’s Fairfield and the Episcopal Church at Yale, to speak as the sponsor of the resolution. Bishop Ahrens invited table discussions on the resolution for five minutes before calling the convention back to order for debate. • The Rev. Keith Voets, Canonically Resident Clergy, moved an amendment of the resolution o The Rev. Ellen Tillotson, Trinity New haven, raised a point of order about the amendment o Thom Peters, Standing Committee, spoke against the amendment o The Rev. Jakki Flanagan, St. James Glastonbury, spoke against the amendment o Robert Riendeau, St. Paul’s Southington, appealed the decision that the amendment does not constitute a new resolution, as previously ruled by the Chancellor § Todd Root, St. James’ Farmington, spoke in favor of the ruling of the Chancellor § The Rev. George Kovoor, St. John’s New Haven, spoke in favor of the ruling of the Chancelor § The Rev. Paul Carling, St. Paul’s Fairfield, spoke in opposition to the ruling of the Chancellor § Robert Riendeau, St. Paul’s Southing, spoke in opposition to the ruling of the Chancellor § The Rev. Ron Kolanowski, St. James’ Preston, called to question the appeal of the ruling. • The motion carried and debated ended § The ruling of the Chancellor was not sustained with 192 voting against and 149 voting in favor. The amendment was determined to be out of order and debate returned to the resolution as originally submitted • The Rev. John Mitman, Retired Priest, spoke against the resolution • The Rev. Barbara Cheney, St. Paul’s New Haven, spoke in favor of the resolution • The Rev. Chip Elliott, Grace Windsor, spoke against the resolution • Denise Welsh, St. Martin’s Hartford, spoke against the resolution • The Rev. George Roberts, St. James’ Farmington, spoke against the resolution • Thom Pters, Standing Committee, spoke in favor of the resolution • The Rev. Steve Klots, South Kent School, spoke in favor of the resolution • The Rev. Ellen Tillotson, Trinity New Haven, spoke in favor of the resolution • The Rev. Kent Smith, Chrich Church New Haven, spoke against the resolution
47 • The Rev. Jakki Flanagan, St. James Glastonbury, spoke in favor of the resolution • Th Rev. Alex Dyer, St. Paul & St. James New Haven, called to question o The motion carried and debate ended • Thom Peters, Standing Committee, requested a vote by orders, which was supported by at least five other members of Convention. The Rev. Bill hardwick raised a question • The Rev. Eleanor Huber, Christ Church Easton, moved to postpone to a time certain at the 231st Annual Convention in 2015.
The motion to postpone to a time certain of the 231st Annual Convention in 2015 carried.
Resolution #13 Endowment Accountability and Mutual Responsibility
The Rev. Kris Lewis moved the adoption of resolution. Bishop Ahrens invited the Rev. Alex Dyer, St. Pauls & St. James New Haven, to speak as the sponsor of the resolution. Bishop Ahrens invited table discussions on the resolution for five minutes before calling the convention back to order for debate. • Robert Riendeau, St. Paul’s Southington, asked if this resolution was against the Episcopal Church Canons, the Chancellor responded that he thought it was not. • The Rev. Bill Loring, St. Paul’s Brookfield, amended the resolution to strike the final resolve, “that if a Parish or Worshipping Community whose annual draw from their endowments exceeds 10%....” o The Rev. John Donnelly, Christ Church Quaker Farms, spoke in support of the amendment o Robert Riendeau, St. Paul’s Southington, spoke against the amendment o K.C. Russeau, Trinity Hartford, spoke in favor of the amendment o The Rev. Kathleen Berkowe, St. John’s Stamford, spoke against the amendment o The Rev. Bennett Brockman, Trinity Hartford, spoke in favor of the amendment o The amendment to the resolution failed, with 142 in favor and 149 against • The Rev. Marion Stinson, St. Luke’s South Glastonbury, moved to postpone the resolution indefinitely. The Chancellor ruled the motion in order. o The Rev. Marion Stinson, St. Luke’s South Glastonbury, spoke in favor of the postponement o Robert Riendeau, St. Paul’s Southington, spoke against the postponement o The Rev. Alex Dyer, St. Paul’s & St. James’ New Haven, spoke against the postponement o The Rev. John Donnelly, Christ Church Quaker Farms, spoke in favor of the postponement
48 o The Rev. Jonathan Folts, St. John’s Essex, spoke against the postponement o The motion to postpone indefinitely failed • The Rev. Bill Hardwick, Church of Our Savior Plainville, spoke against the resolution • Ken Rogonzinski, St. Paul’s Riverside, amended the resolution to change the “net asset value” to “corpus” in the third resolve, and to insert “of the corpus of such endowment” after the “exceeds 10%” in the fourth resolve. o The Rev. Alex Dyer, St. Paul’s & St. James’ New Haven, asked a point of order o The amendment carried. • K.C. Rousseau, Trinity Hartford, raised a question about the resolution • The Rev. Harlon Dalton, Christ Church Cathedral Hartford, called to question. o The motion carried and debate ended.
The resolution, as amended, carried.
Bishop Ian Douglas led the Convention in the post-communion prayer and offered the blessing. The Rev. Ann Ritonia led the Convention in singing a closing hymn and Bishop Douglas offered the dismissal.
Bishop Laura Ahrens asked for a motion to adjourn. The motion carried and the Convention adjourned at 4:41pm.
49 Supporting Documents
Resolutions Resolutions that passed are printed in final amended form.
Resolution #1 – Clergy Compensation
RESOLVED, that the 230th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut adopts the following 2015 Minimum Salary Schedule for all stipendiary clergy including transitional deacons. The following schedule (w/comparisons from 2010 forward) has been recommended by the Personnel Policy Committee and ratified by the Executive Council at its 09/06/2014 meeting for presentation to the Diocesan Convention on October 24/25, 2014, for its approval. (See the clergy salary schedule in the Resolution Appendices of this Journal).
Resolution #2 – Common Mission Support
RESOLVED, that the 230th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut requires that each parish and worshipping community in the Episcopal Church in Connecticut contribute a minimum of 10% of their trailing year’s revenue as reported on Line B of the parish Parochial Report annually to the Budget of Convention to support our common work and participation in God’s mission in Connecticut, across The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion, and to the ends of the earth;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that parishes historically giving greater than 10% of their operating revenue who reduce their giving to 10% be invited to share their stories across the Episcopal Church in Connecticut as to how they redeployed the freed up resources to advance participation in God’s mission in their local context.
Resolution #3 – 2015 Budget of Convention
RESOLVED, that the 230th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut adopts the Budget of Convention for 2015 as proposed and appended to this resolution. (See the 2015 Budget of Convention in the Supporting Documents Section of this Journal on page 87).
Resolution #4 – Second Consideration of an Amended & Restated Diocesan Constitution
RESOLVED, that the 230th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut adopt
50 the amended and restated Constitution as set forth in the Appendix to this resolution, to be effective upon the adjournment of the 230th Convention. (See the revised Diocesan Constitution in the Resolution Appendices section of this Journal on page 109)
Resolution #5 – Consideration of Revisions to the Diocesan Canons
RESOLVED: that the 230th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut adopts the revisions to the Canons set forth in the Appendix to this resolution, to be effective upon the adjournment of the 230th Convention. (See the revised Diocesan Canons in the Resolution Appendices section of this Journal on page 112)
Resolution #6 – Establishing a Covenant between the Episcopal Church in Connecticut & Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS)
RESOLVED, that the 230th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut gives thanks for the thousands of refugees served by Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS) with the help of Episcopal churches and others across Connecticut;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the 230th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut forges a new mutually-beneficial relationship by ratifying the covenant, attached hereto as exhibit 1, between the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut and IRIS to take effect January 1, 2015; (See the text of the Covenant in the Resolution Appendices section of this Journal)
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the 230th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut permits the Executive Council and the Bishops to establish a Covenant Committee and to appoint members from the Episcopal Church in Connecticut to the Covenant Committee, to implement the goals described in the covenant, to ensure the faithful compliance of both parties, and to address any concerns about the covenant or the relationship.
Resolution #7: Economic Justice & Income Inequality
RESOLVED, that the 230th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut calls upon our Bishops, the House of Bishops, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, the President of the House of Deputies, and the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church to speak out and name economic inequality as a spiritual and moral issue of immediate and urgent concern;
51 AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Convention requests the Presiding Bishop to convene an interfaith coalition to provide moral leadership for the establishment of economic justice in our country;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that to put our faith and conviction into action, the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, and all congregations and institutions within our Diocese are urged to pay all lay employees a liveable wage.
Resolution #8: Charter for the Safety of Persons within the Churches of the Anglican Communion
RESOLVED, that the 230th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut commits to promoting the physical, emotional, and spiritual welfare and safety of all people, especially children, young people, and vulnerable adults within the Episcopal Church in Connecticut;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Convention adopts and implements the Charter for the Safety of People within the Churches of the Anglican Communion, as called for by the 15th Meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Auckland, New Zealand in 2012 (ACC15);
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Convention call on the 78th General Convention of the Episcopal Church to adopt the Charter for the Safety of People within the Churches of the Anglican Communion, and to request that all dioceses, parishes, and institutions of The Episcopal Church implement the Charter.
Resolution #9: Charge to TREC-CT
RESOLVED, that the 230th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut charges the Committee on Faith and Order to form an ad hoc committee consisting of its members and members of the Church designated by the Standing Committee and the Bishops to be known as the Taskforce for Reimagining the Episcopal Church in Connecticut (“TREC-CT”);
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Convention charges TREC-CT to develop recommended revisions to the organization and structure of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut consistent with the discernment of this Convention and the guidance of the Bishops, Executive Council, and Standing Committee, to engage the Church in Connecticut in discussion of the recommendations in advance of the 231st Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, and to present its recommendations to that Convention.
52 Resolution #10: Provisions for the Use of Other Forms of Worship
RESOLVED, that the 230th Annual Convention of the Diocese of CT submit the following resolution to the 78th General Convention of the Episcopal Church:
Resolved, the House of ______concurring that Article X of the Constitution be amended with the following sentence at the end of the second paragraph:
Provide for use of other forms for the renewal and enrichment of the common worship of this Church for such periods of time and upon such terms and conditions as General Convention may provide.
Resolution #11: Commend & Advance Baptismal Covenant Language that Reflects Our Unity with All Creation
RESOLVED, that the 230th Convention of the Diocese of Connecticut receive with appreciation the good work of the Baptismal Covenant Working Group, extend its gratitude to the parishes that participated in the Baptismal Covenant creation language study, and commend the study report (attached) to the Episcopal Church in Connecticut;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Convention submit to the 78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church the proposed resolution and explanation contained in the study report:
Resolved, the House of ______concurring, that the 78th General Convention authorize the trial addition to the Baptismal Covenant of a sixth question concerning our responsibility as baptized Christians to care for God’s creation;
And be it further Resolved, that the additional question and response be worded as follows:
“Will you cherish the wondrous works of God, and protect the beauty and integrity of all creation?”
“I will, with God’s help.”;
And be it further Resolved, that use of this additional question and response be authorized for trial use as part of the Baptismal Covenant for the triennium 2016-2018.
53 Resolution #12: To Promote the Use of Gender-Neutral Titles for Priests (Tabled to the 231st Annual Convention)
RESOLVED, that the 230th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut affirms that including both genders in the priestly order has been a transformational example of advancing God’s mission in this place;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we applaud the work of the various General Conventions in committing us to challenge the sin of sexism by striving to eliminate the use of gendered language in worship and in church life;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that, in contrast to the orders of Bishop, Deacon, and Laity, we find that the continued practice of using gendered titles to refer to male and female priests effectively creates a different and unequal status for female priests;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that, while context, culture, and class are critically important dimensions of ministry, and that while there is not yet a consensus on the use of a common gender-neutral title for priests, to advance the goal of developing and using such titles, it is a necessary first to eliminate any gendered titles for priests still in use in parishes, such as “Father” and “Mother,” while encouraging congregational conversations about the preferred use of gender-neutral titles;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that in all parishes in the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, we commit to ending the use of gendered titles for priests no later than the 231st Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that parishes in which female and male priests serve together shall begin using a specific common gender-neutral title, according to the shared preference of the clergy in that parish;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that parishes in which title changes are to occur begin, as soon as is practicable, to engage in congregational education and discussion about the reasons for, and the benefits of this change;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Convention direct the deputation to the 78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church to draft a similar resolution for the deliberation of the national church to eliminate gendered language in the titles used to refer to priests;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the submitters of this resolution will conduct a survey of all parishes prior to the convening of the 231st Convention of the Episcopal
54 Diocese of Connecticut, and report on the progress of advancing gender-neutral titles for priests throughout the Episcopal Church in Connecticut.
Resolution #13: Endowment Stewardship & Mutual Responsibility
RESOLVED, that the 230th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, recognizes that all endowments held by or for the benefit of a Parish or Worshiping Community, like real property, are held in trust for The Episcopal Church and for the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Convention calls upon local vestries to be trustees and good stewards of endowments entrusted to them for the benefit of the wider Church;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Convention, in the interests of transparency, mutual accountability, reconciliation, and our collective desire to participate together in God’s mission, charges the Executive Council to work with Parishes and Worshiping Communities whose annual draw from their endowment(s) exceeds 10% (ten percent) of the corpus of the endowment(s) for three consecutive fiscal years;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that if a Parish or Worshiping Community whose annual draw from their endowment(s) exceeds 10% (ten percent) of the corpus of such endowment for three consecutive fiscal years, beginning in Fiscal Year 2015, the Bishop may declare it an “aided parish,” exercising full authority over its day-to-day administrative, financial and spiritual life pursuant to Canon I, Section 11(A).
55 Resolution Appendices
Clergy Salary Schedule
Full-time Clergy – Minimum Cash Salary
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
% Increase 0.00% 2.50% 3.00% 1.00% 1.50% 1.50% * Transitional Deacons/ 31,299 32,081 33,043 33,373 33,874 34,382 # Priests first full year# Full time assistants: 33,535 34,373 35,404 35,758 36,294 36,838 Rector/Priest-in- 38,009 38,959 40,128 40,529 41,137 41,754 charge: 1st 20 yrs+: 672 689 710 717 728 739 + Top of minimum: 51,446 52,732 54,328 54,869 55,697 56,532 Continuing 1,000 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 ! Education:
Minimum Compensation Formula for Part-time Clergy Social Medical, Security Housing/ Dental & Minimum Continuing Allowance Utilities Life (SSA) Insurance Pension Cash Salary Education Allowance
Same Same 75% of Full-time 85% - 100% 3/4 time 75% of FT formula as 75% of FT formula as (FT) of premium FT FT Same Same 50% of 1/2 time 50% of FT 50% of FT formula as 50% of FT formula as premium FT FT Same Same Missional Negotiable (if formula as formula as Priest(8-20 retired, must be FT (Not Negotiabl FT (Not hours/week under the “work Negotiable Negotiable applicable e applicable Sunday after retirement” if clergy is if clergy is Plus^) earnings cap retired) retired)
56 Additional Compensation Components and Requirements Social Security allowance (SSA) - See factors for this calculation in the Treasurers Newsletter which approximate 60% of the self-employment (SE) liability of compensation package Housing/Utilities – Parish may provide church owned housing and church paid utilities or they may provide a housing allowance. A housing allowance will be determined in conjunction with the Canon for Mission Leadership based upon housing costs in the parish community and the clergy’s full-time equivalent status. Housing equity allowance - equal to 3% of the amount recorded as "compensation" by the church pension fund (only after 5 years of ordination). This applies only if the rector is provided housing by the church or receives a housing allowance that does not permit an ownership interest in that housing. Medical, Dental and Life Insurance - Whether coverage under the Diocesan plan is for a single person, two persons, or a family is left to the sole discretion of the priest. The parish’s minimum contribution rate to the medical insurance plan shall be set periodically by the Bishop and Diocesan Executive Council in accordance with the plan (Currently parishes must contribute at least 85% of the cost of medical insurance premium for clergy regularly scheduled to work 1,500 hours or more per year). Premiums for life insurance and dental coverage for full time clergy must be paid 100% by the employer. Medical for part-time clergy will be based upon the part-time guidelines Pension fund contributions – calculated based upon “compensation” according to Church Pension Fund formula based upon type of housing provided. See the section 6 of this Treasurers Newsletter for guidance on calculating this benefit.
Paid Time Off for All Clergy (Vacation, Holiday, Continuing Education and Sabbatical) Continuing Vacation Holiday Sabbatical Education
14 paid 3 month paid Full –time See below ** holidays/leave sabbatical option 5 days days after 5 years 14 paid 3/4 time See below ** holidays/leave Negotiable Negotiable days 1/2 time See below ** 7 paid Negotiable Negotiable
57 holidays/leave days Missional Priest(8-20 See below ** N/A N/A Negotiable hours/week Sunday Plus^)
** Five weeks, which may include up to 5 Sundays (at the discretion of the clergy). A week is commensurate to the call and as defined in the Letter of Agreement: Full-Time—Five weeks Three-Quarter Time—Five ¾ time weeks Half-Time—Five ½ time weeks Less Half-Time (MP)—Five MP weeks, as delineated in LOA
TRAVEL EXPENSES Parishes should provide an annual professional expense allowance for reimbursement of documented expenses according to a vestry approved accountable plan. Expenses incurred in the course of professional activities on behalf of the parish include travel/car expense allowance at the rate determined by the diocese. Professional expenses include books, professional journals, conferences, meetings, professional lunches and professional memberships. Parish and diocesan business related mileage should be reimbursed at the IRS mileage rate $0.56 per mile which became effective January 1, 2014. As announced at the ’98 convention, and in force since then, the flat travel allowance of prior years was replaced in 2000 with a recommended Accountable Plan Allowance for business related travel and reasonable professional expenses as submitted and documented on a regular basis. For IRS tax purposes it is recommended that parishes adopt this method of business travel and professional expense reimbursement and that the parish provides an adequate budget amount to accommodate documented expense reimbursement requests. Mileage rate adjustments will be announced as amended. A flat allowance to cover these business expenses is not recommended.
LEGEND * This salary figure represents a 1.5% increase over the 2014 salary schedule. The figures are based on projections using trends and figures available through 7/24/2014. There is no additional base increase built into the increment. ! If in church owned housing, utilities may be pro-rated based upon full-time equivalent (FTE). In addition to the cash minimum salary above, compensation packages should include housing
58 and utilities (i.e. church owned housing or suitable housing allowance for clergy owned or rented housing) # Transitional Deacons/Priests first full year rate is for the first year following ordination to the DIACONATE. Beyond that first year, the rate used should be under the category of full time assistant or Priest-in-Charge as appropriate. + From date of Ordination to the Diaconate: Rather than prorating the increase for the exact date of ordination, it is recommended that the incremental step be paid as of January 1st for the entire calendar year after the year of ordination. The incremental step applies to all clergy except for Transitional Deacons and Priests in their first year of ordination. ^Sunday Plus: The Missional Priest (MP) is an active and engaged leader that helps a parish to re-imagine and re-engage its vocation to participate in God's mission of restoration and reconciliation in new and life-giving ways. This call is beyond what is historically described as "long term supply" and requires a commitment of time, energy, and talent beyond Sunday services and pastoral care. "Sunday Plus" describes the "work period" of the MP in broad terms. The MP presides and preaches at Sunday Eucharist and an additional day or two ("Plus"), the amount of time and day(s) to be negotiated between the Vestry and MP, not to be less than 8 hours weekly, and not more than 20. "Plus" then is contextual and will vary from one parish to the next (e.g., Sunday plus Wednesday afternoon and evening; or Sunday plus Tuesday morning and Wednesday all day, etc.). When calculating vacation, the MP is entitled to annual paid vacation of 3 Sundays and 2 "Plus" days, however this is negotiated in the LOA. ! The Continuing Education amount for 2015 is $1,500.00 for full-time clergy for continuing education and for a contribution toward the expense of the annual clergy conference. It is not intended as cash compensation but as an offset to actual educational/conference expenses. A week of continuing education time away from the parish is an integral part of this allowance for full time clergy. Merit Increases: There is no recommended policy for merit increases. However, consideration for equity and merit adjustments is encouraged for added job responsibilities and recognition for work well done beyond the expectations outlined in letters of agreement.
59 A Covenant Between the Episcopal Church in Connecticut & Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS)
1. Preface: Toward a New Covenant Relationship
Since 1982, refugee resettlement has been a key expression of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut’s participation in God’s mission. IRIS—Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services, as an agency of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut and with the abiding support of the church and its people, has been the primary means by which this participation in God’s mission has been accomplished.
Over the past decade IRIS has become increasingly self-sustaining, with many new partners and volunteers. At the same time, the Episcopal Church in Connecticut has moved away from centralized diocesan programming to an emphasis on supporting mission engagement at the local parish level. Recognizing IRIS’s desire for independence and self-governance, IRIS and the Episcopal Church in Connecticut agree that going forward IRIS’s purpose will best be served as an organization fully independent from, but in a covenanted relationship with, The Episcopal Church in Connecticut.
Therefore we, the Episcopal Church in Connecticut and IRIS, celebrate the relationship that has been life-affirming for us and for the refugees we have served over the past three decades, and seek to begin a new chapter in our relationship. This new chapter, founded on our shared commitment to supporting refugees, gives IRIS a fully independent form of governance and set forth new and continuing commitments for both parties. We will accomplish our transition to this new relationship through this written Covenant between the Episcopal Church in Connecticut and IRIS.
2. History and Background
A refugee is a person who has fled his or her country of origin due to persecution on the basis of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. Refugees face imminent threats of violence including imprisonment, torture, or death. Seeking shelter for themselves and their children, they flee in the hope of finding peace and safety in another country.
In the United States, faith communities have historically played an important role in resettling refugees, particularly since the aftermath of World War II. For decades, The Episcopal Church at the national level has participated in this mission.
In 1942, the Episcopal Church in Connecticut created Episcopal Social Service, Inc. (ESS), a not-for-profit corporation that engaged in social justice and human services
60 work throughout the state. In 1982, following the passage of the Refugee Act of 1980 that formalized the process through which refugees are admitted to, and resettled in, the United States, ESS began resettling refugees as part of its human services work. The refugee resettlement program of ESS was named Interfaith Refugee Ministry until 2007 when, in order to reflect more accurately the agency’s work and mission, its name was changed to IRIS—Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services.
IRIS is a nonsectarian, federally recognized refugee resettlement program and a subsidiary organization of ESS. Because of this historical arrangement, the Convention of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut provides annual financial support to IRIS, and ESS bylaws ensure church oversight.
IRIS is also affiliated with two national organizations that work directly with the U.S. Department of State on refugee admissions: Church World Service (CWS) and Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM). EMM grew out of The Episcopal Church’s long tradition of the grass roots congregational ministry of resettling refugees. Today, EMM is The Episcopal Church’s national organization that offers Episcopalians opportunities to participate in the mission of welcoming refugees.
IRIS’s affiliation with CWS and EMM is vital. They each send approximately 100 refugees per year to IRIS and provide valuable training, processing, oversight, and guidance on federal requirements for resettling refugees. Moreover, CWS and EMM help to connect IRIS to the national network of refugee resettlement agencies. They organize advocacy efforts on relevant immigration issues and strengthen IRIS’s connection to the tradition of faith-based support for refugees. IRIS intends to maintain its close relationships and contractual affiliations with both CWS and EMM.
Since 1982, IRIS has resettled more than 4,500 refugee women, men, and children in Connecticut. Its mission is to enable refugees and other displaced people to establish new lives, regain hope, and contribute to their communities. Through outreach, advocacy, and public events, IRIS also educates the community about the refugee experience and related issues. In recent years IRIS has flourished due to many factors: the commitment of its staff, volunteers, and donors; its widening network of connections with a variety of secular and religious institutions; and its strong relationship with the Episcopal Church in Connecticut.
3. Rationale for a Continued Relationship
The Episcopal Church in Connecticut and IRIS offer separate statements describing the values and beliefs underlying their decision to enter into this Covenant.
61 A) Episcopal Church in Connecticut “The Episcopal Church in Connecticut pledges to continue to support refugees through our ongoing relationship with IRIS. Our faith tradition provides the foundation for this commitment. By continuing our relationship with IRIS, we respond to a scriptural mandate to welcome the strangers in our midst. We uphold the values expressed in our Baptismal Covenant. WE recognize the hope and promise of Easter in the life of each refugee person. We believe that the mission of God is happening throughout the world, and that we are called to participate here—at home—in God’s worldwide mission. We embrace this call by supporting refugees, and we are grateful for our partnership with IRIS which enables us to do so.” B) IRIS “As IRIS becomes and independent nonprofit, we pledge to maintain a close relationship with the Episcopal Church in Connecticut. There are many reasons for us to do so. First and foremost, we recognize the need to preserve strong support for refugee resettlement in the Episcopal community in Connecticut. Refugees coming to Connecticut will always need friends, mentors, and supporters who can meet their basic needs and help them start their lives over in their new community, and the Episcopal Church can continue to contribute to this mission in significant ways. The strong relationship between IRIS and the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, as described in the Covenant, sends a clear message to national, state, and local partners that this transition is supported by both parties. A gradual reduction in financial support by the Episcopal Church in Connecticut will give IRIS the time it needs to find and cultivate new sources of funding. Maintaining an ongoing relationship with the Episcopal Church in Connecticut will support our organizational stability and strategic progress. As we welcome refugees to Connecticut, we welcome the Episcopal Church in Connecticut and all of its members to join us in this transformative work.”
4. Transfer of Governance Authority
In recognition of evolving organizational dynamics, the Episcopal Church in Connecticut supports the agreement of IRIS to:
A) Pursue recognition as a legal entity with its own 501(3)c status; B) Carry out its mission without significant change; C) Govern itself according to its own bylaws;
62 D) Accept the Convention’s nomination of up to three seats on the IRIS Board of Directors, with those members formally appointed on a staggered basis (one per year) and serving on that Board subject to the IRIS bylaws; E) Accept a gradual reduction of the annual financial allocation granted by the Convention.
5. Partnership in Mission
A) The Episcopal Church in Connecticut and IRIS will continue to be partners in mission. While the Episcopal Church in Connecticut and IRIS at times use different language to describe what mission means to them, both share a commitment to: a. Foster peace, justice, and equity. b. Offer radical hospitality to refugees and other displaced people. c. Resist all forms of human oppression. d. Uphold the universal human rights of all people. e. Work collaboratively with local, national, and international partners toward these goals. B) In recognition of these shared commitments, the Episcopal Church in Connecticut and IRIS agree to: a. Establish a process to continue their partnership in mission in a variety of ways, through mutually supportive practices that respect the evolving needs and aspirations of IRIS and the people it serves, and of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut and its diverse members. b. Encourage and nourish relationship for grassroots sharing of human, spiritual, and material resources. c. Confer and join together when appropriate to advocate for their shared vision of peace and justice. C) In addition, with regard to their current practices in mission: a. The Episcopal Church in Connecticut agrees that IRIS will remain eligible to apply for grants, and/or to request other forms of financial support for its mission of refugee resettlement, including but not limited to: the Bishops’ Fund for Children; mission endowment funds that may be stewarded by the Episcopal Church in Connecticut; event sponsorships; and gifts from individual parishes. b. IRIS agrees to continue its outreach and education efforts at Episcopal churches in Connecticut, by sustaining existing relationships and by visiting with at least six additional Episcopal parishes per year during the first five years of this Covenant.
63 c. The Episcopal Church in Connecticut, through its Social Justice and Advocacy Committee, will assist IRIS in its outreach efforts in Connecticut by offering introductions to new Episcopal parishes in order to facilitate connections, expand IRIS’s network, and increase opportunities for parishes to support refugees and other displaced people in Connecticut d. IRIS agrees to continue its affiliation with Episcopal Migration Ministries.
6. Toward Economic Self-Sufficiency
An organization is authentically autonomous when it is self-governed, self-propagated, and self-supporting financially. In order for IRIS to achieve financial self-sufficiency, the Episcopal Church in Connecticut and IRIS agree that the Church’s annual budget allocation to IRIS, as voted by Convention, will decrease beginning in 2016 and conclude according to the following timetable:
Year Budget Allocation Reduction Amount 2015 $48,000 $0 2016 $38,400 $9,600 2017 $28,800 $9,600 2018 $19,200 $9,600 2019 $9,600 $9,600 2020 $0 $9,600 The Episcopal Church in Connecticut intends to provide IRIS with an annual financial gift from 2020 on, in amounts solely within the discretion and determination of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut.
7. Implementation
This Covenant will be in effect from the first of January of the year immediately following its approval by the Convention of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, and will continue for a period of five years, with possible renewal for any further period by mutual agreement of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut and IRIS.
There shall be a Covenant Committee composed of members from the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, whose existence shall begin upon the signing of this Covenant by both parties. The term of that Committee shall be five years, renewable upon the written agreement of both parties. The task of this committee shall be to implement the goals described above, to ensure the faithful compliance of both parties with this Covenant, and to address any concerns about the Covenant or the relationship between IRIS and the Episcopal Church in Connecticut.
64 REPORTS TO CONVENTION
TREASURER’S REPORT Year ended December 31, 2013
I am pleased to report that Fiscal year 2013 ended on budget mainly because of strong expense control and better than expected pledge income. Despite this result, and given the state of the national economy, it remains prudent to continue the conservative budgeting approach that has been diocesan policy over the past several years. Through continued careful management of expenses and with the full expectation that parish pledges come in for the balance of the year as expected, we expect the 2014 Budget of Convention to provide a surplus. This is important since reserve funds are at the minimum level recommended by our auditors and a surplus will enable the Episcopal Church in Connecticut to increase its reserves. These results have been achieved with no reduction or compromising of internal fiscal controls or results despite significant turnover of the financial staff. Special thanks go to our reduced financial staff, to Robert Half International for providing talented and competent temporary accountants, and to Louis Fuertes who joined the staff as the Interim for Mission Support late in the year and has done yeoman work in assuring the integrity of the financial statements and in developing the Convention Budget for 2015. The preparation process for the fiscal year 2015 Convention Budget was under the capable leadership of Barbara Curry, Chair of the Program and Budget Committee with support from Louis Fuertes and the financial staff. Using the 2013 Budget of Convention as a base, the Committee held a series of meetings and was able to construct a proposed balanced Budget of Convention for 2015. The proposed 2015 budget is based on estimates of support from parishes (assuming that Resolution 3: Common Mission Support which requires parishes to contribute a minimum of 10% of their operating expenses annually to the Budget of Convention passes), investments and other income; changes in staffing including the retirement of Bishop Curry; a cost of living increase for the staff; and continued support for programs of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut. The proposed budget also includes a contingency line of approximately seven percent. Despite the continued stress from financial staff changes, the financial control over discretionary and fixed costs was exemplary. In addition, the bishops and staff continue to evolve and refine the structure and purposes of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut staff to assist the work of the parishes in carrying out God's Mission.
65 I personally continue to feel blessed to be a part of this process, all of which takes place in a faithful and collegial atmosphere and with a growing understanding of God's Mission and our common life together as the Episcopal Church in Connecticut. Respectfully Submitted, Lynn Alan Brooks, Treasurer
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL: 2013-2014
The Executive Council consist of the Bishop Diocesan, two Bishops Suffragan, and one clerical and one lay delegate from each of the fourteen deaneries. The Bishops may appoint up to six additional members at large. Additionally, the Council elects a Secretary, which has traditionally been the person elected as Secretary of the Diocese. The Treasurer and the Chancellor are ex-officio members. The Canons for Mission Collaboration, Mission Leadership, Mission Finance, Mission Integrity and Training, Mission Communication and Media, and the Executive Director of Camp Washington all serve in an advisory capacity. The Executive Council is charged by Canon with: Collecting and allocating funds within the limits of the budgets adopted by the Diocesan Convention; exercising the full power and authority of the Diocese between sessions of the Convention in most matters; and establishing and maintaining program initiatives. Our vision for our life and work together: • The Executive Council will be a diverse and inclusive community of Christian leaders with a strong sense of community. • The Executive Council will fulfill canonical responsibilities and effectively manage the finances of the Diocese. • The Executive Council will engage with parishes and individuals across the Diocese as it works to facilitate new ways of participating in God's mission of restoration and reconciliation in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. • Executive Council members will be agents of change who help to envision a new future for the Diocese, seeking God's guidance through Scripture and prayer. In 2013-2014, the Executive Council [meeting jointly as Executive Council and the Boards of Directors for Camp Washington (through June 2014) and the Missionary Society] met as follows: • December 7, 2013 at St. James’, Glastonbury • March 15, 2014 at St. Paul’s, Wallingford • June 7, 2014 at Camp Washington, Lakeside, CT • September 6, 2014 at The Commons, Meriden, CT
66 The members exercised their ministry of leadership and oversight in the following ways: Camp Washington
As of June 2014, a new Board of Directors (separate from Executive Council) was formed for Camp Washington. That Board will be overseeing the finances, operations of Camp as well as the search for a new Executive Director, as Jean Handler is retiring at the end of 2014. Relocation
The Diocesan House Relocation Team successfully assisted in the sale of Diocesan House and the relocation of the the offices to The Commons at 290 Pratt Street in Meriden. Faith and Order/TREC-CT
The Faith and Order Committee (previously known as Constitution and Canons) will be present additional revisions to the canons at Convention as well as the revised Constitution that was approved in 2013. Additionally Faith and Order was combined with members of the Council interested in revisioning the Missionary Society to become TREC-CT (Task Force for Re-imagining the Episcopal Church in CT). TREC-CT is engaged in the work of re-imagining the structures of the Episcopal Church in CT. TREC-CT hosted listening sessions in May and July, as well as a Clergy Day in June. There will continue to be opportunities for Episcopalians around CT to offer their input, including at Convention 2014, as TREC- CT looks to come to Convention 2015 with proposals for a new structure for the Episcopal Church in CT. Financial Oversight
The Council and Boards reviewed and accepted the FASB, GAAS compliant, combined, annual audits and documents from the diocesan auditors, BlumShapiro, for the financial statements for 2013 audit. They also received the financial statements from the Finance Committee on a periodic basis, and through that committee reviewed them for audit. The Council reaffirmed the appointment of Blum Shapiro as auditors for 2014. The Council worked with the Finance Committee and the Program and Budget Committee to present the Clergy Minimum Salary Schedule and the Budget of Convention for 2014 to the Annual Convention in October 2014.
67 The Council also ratified grants for the Millennium Development Fund and the Mission Development Fund as follows: Millennium Development:
Trinity in Motion, Haiti (St. Paul’s and St. Timothy’s, Fairfield; and Trinity, Southport) - $10,000 Megumeto Nursery School and Well, Megumeto, Mozambique – Diocese of Lebombo (St. Peter’s, Monroe) - $10,000 St. Vincent’s Center for Handicapped Children, Port-au-Price, Haiti (Friends of St. Vincent’s) - $1645 Mission Development:
2014-1 Barnaba Institute Street Outreach Program Middlesex Area Cluster Ministry $6,550 2014-2 Naugatuck Valley Project St. John’s Episcopal Church, Waterbury $5,500 2014-3 Our Community Cares, Inc. Episcopal Church of the Holy Advent, Clinton, CT $2,500
Missionary Society:
Sitting as the Board of Directors of the Missionary Society, the following loans from the Revolving Loan Fund were approved:
Emmanuel Church, Killingworth - $92,700 St. Peter’s, Monroe - $85,000
The Board ratified grants for the Jack Spaeth Creation Fund totaling $1500; Trinity Fund (So. Norwalk) Committee totaling $135,000; and grants from the Trinity Waterbury Fund of $22,939.97 and the Harrub Fund of $7,718.20 Property Matters:
The sale of the following properties (held by the Missionary Society) was approved by the Board:
• 5 Rockridge Drive, Norwalk (formerly clergy housing) • 16 Berkeley Street, Norwalk (formerly clergy housing) • 256 North Road, Groton, CT (formerly Bishop Seabury Church) • 35 Harris Road, Avon, CT (formerly Christ Church)
68 The Council is vested with the authority of carrying out the work of Convention during the year. Through its work as the Council, Boards of Directors and our various committees and project teams, we are committed to continuing to help our whole Diocese to more fully participate in God's mission of restoration and reconciliation in Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. Respectfully submitted, The Rev. Molly F. James, PhD Secretary of the Diocese and Executive Council
ABSTRACT OF THE JOURNAL OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE: 2013-2014
Since its report to The Annual Diocesan Convention in October 2013, the Standing Committee has met as follows:
Date Location Members Present
October 24, 2013 Marriott Hotel (Stamford) 7 November 21, 2013 Diocesan House (Hartford) 6 December 9, 2013 St. James Church (Glastonbury) 10 January 23, 2014 Diocesan House (Hartford) 9 February 27, 2014 Diocesan House (Hartford) 9 March 15, 2014 St. Paul’s Church (Wallingford) 5 April 24, 2014 The Commons (Meriden) 5 June 7, 2014 Camp Washington (Lakeside) 7 July 31, 2014 The Commons (Meriden) 7 September 6, 2014 The Commons (Meriden) 8 September 25, 2014 The Commons (Meriden) 9
The Committee welcomed Sandra Cosman and Ed Seibert to serve in the coming year. The Committee elected Thom Peters as President and A. Bates Lyons as Secretary. Alex Dyer was selected to serve as the Committee’s representative on the Commission on Ministry. The Committee voted to testify and recommend for ordination to Priesthood: • Peter Johnston • Patrick Bush • Michael Carroll The Committee voted to testify and recommend for candidacy for Holy Orders: • Patrick Bush • Edwin L. Lewis
69 • Kim Litsey • Carlos de la Torres The Committee voted to consent for the election, ordination, and consecration of Suffragan Bishops in: • Diocese of Dominican Republic • Diocese of East Carolina • Diocese of West Texas • Diocese of Mississippi • Diocese of Massachusetts The committee consented to real estate sales, encumbrances and other real estate matters involving the following parishes:
• St. John’s – East Hartford • St. Paul’s – Southington • St. John’s – Bridgeport • Christ Church – Stratford • Christ Church – Bethany • St. Andrew’s – New Haven • Missionary Society (sale of Diocesan House & lease of Commons) • Missionary Society (sale of former Christ Church – Avon) • St. David’s – Gales Ferry • Grace – Norwalk • St. Luke’s – New Haven • Trinity – Trumbull • Trinity – Wethersfield • Christ Church Cathedral – Hartford • St. Paul’s – Fairfield • Emmanuel – Weston • St. John’s – New Haven The Committee approved the voting lists for Clergy & Lay Delegates to the 2014 Annual Diocesan Convention. The Committee carried out its responsibilities under the provisions of the Constitution & Canons of The Episcopal Church, National & Diocesan and served as a Council of Advice for the Bishop, meeting with all of the Bishops and other church leaders on various Diocesan matters. This included participation in the Joint Diocesan Leadership meetings with the Bishops and Diocesan Executive Committee, Donations and Bequests, and the Commission on Ministry. The Committee also participated in the review of the Diocesan Bishop conducted by Gay Jennings and contributed to seeing that the Episcopacy Viability Taskforce was established and its report published. Responsibility for complying with Resolution #3 of the Annual Convention was given to the Faith and Order Committee as part of their charge by the Diocesan Bishop.
70 Members of the Committee also participated in shaping the proposed revisions to Diocesan Constitution and Canons as well as TREC-CT. Respectfully Submitted, A. Bates Lyons, Secretary
THE BISHOPS’ FUND FOR CHILDREN
The Episcopal Church in Connecticut established the Bishops' Fund for Children in 1994 under the leadership of Bishop Clarence Coleridge. The Bishops' Fund was created to enhance awareness of the plight of children at risk and to raise funds to help underwrite social service programs that aid these children in urban, suburban and rural neighborhoods. Since its inception, the Bishops’ Fund has awarded $3.2 million in grants to serve children at risk throughout Connecticut. In 2014, 35 organizations requested grants totaling $209,692. Grants of $50,500 were provided to the following 16 programs: 4-H Lift (Anacoaona Summer Program), Bridgeport Canton Connections, Collinsville Children's Community School, Inc., Waterbury Covenant to Care for Children, Bloomfield Family Matters Calvary Church, Bridgeport Grace Academy, Hartford Hartford Food System, Inc., Hartford Intergrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, New Haven Judy Dworin Performance Project, Hartford L'Eglise De L' Epiphanie, Stamford St. Andrew's, Your Place Youth Center, New Haven St. John’s, Church Street Community Services, Waterbury St. Mark's Toddler Play Group, Mystic TEEG Thompson Ecumenical Empowerment Group, No. Grosvenordale Thames River Family Program, Norwich Y-US (Youth United for Survival), Hartford Respectfully submitted, Leslie Jones Fund Administrator October 1, 2014
71 CAMP WASHINGTON REPORT FOR THE 230TH ANNUAL CONVENTION
What a wonderful summer! Warm days, cool nights....such a treat for staff and campers alike. We welcomed many new campers and provided financial assistance to 56 campers totaling $20,860 this year. Monies raised for financial assistance continue to come from The Bishops’ Open for Camp Washington, our partnership with The Bishops Fund for Children and contributions from individuals, organizations and parishes. Your generous support helps provide a life changing experience for many of our campers. In addition, thank you to our volunteer Chaplains, the Revs. Kurt Huber, Bob Stocksdale, Elsa Worth, Mo Lederman, Adam Yates, Mark Byers and Allison Read who brought an experience of a living Christian Community to Camp Washington, making it that special place to be. This summer, after our program closed, Camp Kesem, a non-profit, student-run organization from Yale, provided a week-long, free summer camp for children with a parent who has (or has had) cancer. We are pleased to have hosted this wonderful group and look forward to their return next summer. Thank you to Elizabeth Peters and Luke Scaros for volunteering at the waterfront that week. You’re the best! We continue to host Natures Classroom students during the week each fall and spring where they learn about the environment and their responsibility to it. On weekends from September through June, we welcome groups of all faiths to enjoy our beautiful and sacred grounds for their spiritual time away. Did you know we prepared and served 42,000 meals last year?! Now to the sad part of this report. I am saying good-bye to all of you who I have served for 16 years and am walking straight to, if not running toward my retirement. Many of you have laughed with me, cried with me and most certainly prayed for me through the years and I am most grateful for it. I am leaving a part of my heart with Camp Washington. As I go forth I ask you all to pick up that baton and pass it to the children. Look around your parish, your neighborhood or your city/town and change a life of a child by sending them here to camp. Good-bye to my dear friends and colleagues within the Diocese. And to Diane Atwood and Ben Thompson, Matt Cornish, Dick Sheldon and all of the summer staff, I love you all. Peace, Jean Handler Executive Director
72 REPORT OF THE ARCHIVIST: 2013-2014
At the time of last year’s report, Greg Farr and I had inventoried and packed just under 600 cubic feet of archival materials. When we moved in March, approximately 1200 cubic feet of manuscripts, records, and artifacts that illuminate the history of our mission in Connecticut were transported to the new space in Meriden. In addition to the collection, we moved the extensive resource library. Greg Farr left us to accept full time position after Independence Day. As we celebrated his good fortune and his time with us, it was hard to say good-bye. His talent and dedication to the project of moving the archives proved invaluable. The energy brought by Greg in creative solutions for indexing our holdings and his innovations for record-keeping, packing, preparing for moving, and mapping the new vault are a lasting gift to our diocese and our rich history. I can most assuredly say that such an undertaking without Greg’s invaluable contribution and God’s help, our collection would not be as organized as it is today. With regard to reference questions, I responded to just under 300 in 2013, and have responded to just under 400 in 2014. Because of the physical upheaval of moving, we only received about a dozen visitors last year. In our new location, we have new custom-built bookcases, and the actual shelving of our library is an ongoing process. Though we have had some challenges in the new space, it is a pleasure to be above ground where there is sun and light, as well as the company of my colleagues in the office, instead of being the sole occupant in the old basement. On the 14th of September of this year, we lost a long-time friend and colleague, Peter Knapp, who served on the Archives Committee for more than thirty years, many of them as chair of the committee. An archivist at Trinity College, historian and scholar, Peter was a supportive advocate for our Episcopal archives. His untimely death came as quite a shock to the committee. It is a reminder that we in Connecticut are blessed with so many dedicated volunteers working behind the scenes in a variety of ministries to keep the Church vibrant and relevant. As always, I am grateful to the Archives Committee: The Rev. Dr. Borden Painter, the Rev. Steve Ling, Ms. Diana Barnard, who is archivist at University of St. Joseph; the Rev. Dr. Andy Zeman, Chancellor Bradford Babbitt, Esq., Keith Hook, and the Rev. Canon Robert G. (Jerry) Carroon, Archivist Emeritus. Dr. Painter and Ms. Barnard, especially, worked long hours with the Relocation Committee, and all of the archivists spent significant time helping to plan the move. I also want to thank the bishops, who elected to keep the archives on site with the rest of our diocesan administrative offices. Respectfully Submitted, Margaret Smith
73 SPANISH LANGUAGE MINISTRY GROUP
During the past year, the clergy leaders in nine Spanish language ministries in Connecticut continued to meet monthly for mutual support, prayer and Bible study, mission development and coordination. We also worked to further involve lay leaders in our congregations. Block Grant – Having received our second Block Grant from the Episcopal Church in CT, we formed a subcommittee of clergy and lay representatives tasked with deciding upon its distribution. Because of the mutual trust that has been built up among us over the past few years, we were able to bring our parish budgets to the table for discussion, fully disclosing our financial affairs to one another and the ways in which each parish wished to use the block grant funding. We set goals for ourselves, desiring to continue to increase the level of awareness of parish finances among our laity, and to reduce over time the reliance on funding from The Episcopal Church in CT. After several meetings during the Fall of 2013, the subcommittee made its recommendation to the group as a whole for the apportionment of the block grant. The plan was ratified by the group and reported to The Episcopal Church in CT. We subsequently held an accountability meeting in the Spring of 2014 at St. John’s in Bridgeport, where each parish reported back on its progress and use of the funding. Lay leaders were participants in this process as well as the clergy. New directions – On a Saturday in April at Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford, there was a retreat for the clergy group around the three topics of Accountability, Vitality/Vision/Mission, and Strategic Planning for the Future. In the context of worship, Bible study, meditation, and song the group took time to map out its plans for the future. Those plans include developing educational programs for our laity, and continuing to involve them more in the workings of our group. Education – Two of our members are currently investigating two tracks of educational possibilities. One track is for the raising up and education of ordained leadership for our Spanish-speaking ministries. The other track is for the education of lay leadership within our parishes. We are working with Hartford Seminary, and also exploring seminary courses available online from various sources. This will be an ongoing project of our group. Lay involvement and encouragement – As part of our 2014 Block Grant, we held aside $5,000 for our group to administer as a whole, rather than allocating it for a specific parish or ministry. So far, we have used some of this money to hold a retreat on September 27 at Wisdom House. Seventy-two people participated in that day! Held in Spanish, with occasional translation, it was a complete success. We repeated the topics covered at the clergy day in April, looking at each one in the light of
74 Scripture. We heard introductory words about each topic and then broke into small groups to facilitate participation of our lay members. Each small group then reported back to the plenary. It was a very moving day in which the voices of these dedicated lay leaders could be heard and honored. New friendships were forged as we intentionally sat with people from other parishes. At the end of the day Bishop Curry, who has been our bishop, our encourager, and our inspiration, led us in Eucharist. Our Thanksgiving to God was mingled in our thanksgiving to Bishop Curry, who has been a great gift to our ministry. Progress – For the very first time, the planning team of this annual convention came to us, asking how they might better plan to include Spanish-speaking members of The Episcopal Church in CT. Our response was taken back into their planning process, and we are so grateful. We see this as an important part of the story of God’s Mission taking place among us! The Rev. Dana L. Campbell, Convener
EPISCOPAL CHURCH WOMEN
During the past year, the women of the church in Connecticut continue to live their faith through dedicated service to others, enriching their lives through occasions that provided opportunities to grow in the Spirit. One such event was our 133rd Annual Meeting which was held on May 1st, 2014. It was attended by almost four hundred people representing forty-eight parishes in our state and representatives from Province I. The keynote speaker was the Right Reverend Michael B. Curry, Bishop of North Carolina who as expected inspired all in attendance with his message. Another event that was well attended was the Open Board meeting which was held at Trinity Church, Nichols, and hosted by our chaplain, the Reverend Ellen Kennedy, and ECW members of the parish. The Holy Eucharist was celebrated, later all in attendance participated in creating floral arrangements before enjoying a delicious lunch. The board meeting followed, but it was also a day when women not only worshiped and worked together, but had a fun and in many instances, networked with each other. On a rainy Saturday, several Latina women, braved the stormy weather to gather at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Hartford to learn more about ECW. This is one segment of our church community that was not connected to ECW. Thanks to the work and effort of the Rev. Alba Perez, the gathering was a beginning. In attendance were the Rt. Rev. James E. Curry, and the Rt. Rev. Laura J. Ahrens, Bishops Suffragan. We were warmly welcomed by Rev. Perez, the Rev. Valerie Miller, Assisting Priest and ladies of the parish. The visit was especially meaningful to us as the first Diocesan ECW president, the late Elizabeth Hart was a member of the Church of the Good
75 Shepherd. This was a beginning, and it is with prayerful hope we look forward to growing the relationship with Latina women in our Diocese. Another area where ECW has focused attention, is advocating for victims of violence in our society. We are deeply grateful to the spirit, knowledge, tenacity and determination of our Christian Education Program Leader, Dr. Mary Decker, who has been a strong advocate for victims. She has worked through agencies and people to seek help, improve awareness, and impact legislation on their behalf. In addition, through ECW’s White Envelope Program, preteens/adolescents, adults, couples and families will receive scholarships to attend group therapy at the Christian Counseling and Family Life Center, in Shelton. These are only a few of the accomplishments of Connecticut’s ECW members. I would like to invite all to take the time to read our Annual Report, or the Connecticut Communiqué to learn more. The ECW members in Connecticut continue to perform amazingly in so many areas, and we are indeed proud to work together as sisters in Christ. We are very grateful for the continued support of our Bishops and clergy throughout our Diocese. It is our prayer that God will continue to lead us and be our Guide as we continue in His service in the days ahead. Valzie V. Peterkin, President
REPORT OF THE DIOCESAN COMMISSION ON LITURGY AND MUSIC: 2013-2014
The membership of the Diocesan Commission on Liturgy and Music is composed of Music Ministers, Lay leaders, and Clergy of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut. Members of the Commission for 2013-2014 were: The Rev. Ann Ritonia (Chair), The Rev. Dr. Bill Hardwick, Deborah Gemma, The Rev. Ron Kolanowski, John Armstrong, The Rev. Dana Campbell (Recording Secretary), The Rev. Matt Lincoln, Canon Robert Brooks, Fiona Sutherland. During the past year, members of the commission met monthly for mutual support, prayer, liturgical planning for various Diocesan events including Annual convention as well as for discussion on liturgical developments and resources available for liturgical and musical planning and support for the greater Diocese. During 2013-2014 the work of the commission included the following: • Purchase of Recording Equipment 2014 which will be lent to parishes who want to try out the recording of services, sermons, or music for archiving or posting to their parish websites.
76 • Participation in Spring Training for God's Mission. This year Commission member Deborah Gemma and The Rev, Paul Briggs presented a workshop on Creating Liturgy. • Planning and designing Liturgy for the Spring Clergy Conference which included a Eucharist Prayer written especially for the event by the Rev. Dr. Kate Heichler, Administrative support provided by Trinity Church Seymour and the Rev. Dr. Kris Lewis as well as music provided by Surcari (Caribbean/South American fusion group led by Christ Church Cathedral musician Lorena Garay. • Delegation of The Rev. Amy Welin to an Indaba-style conversation on same-sex marriage held in Kansas City MO under the auspices of The Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music (SLCM) of The Episcopal Church. Leaders from across the Anglican Communion, ecumenical partners, and lay and clergy representatives from Episcopal dioceses where civil same-sex marriage is legal shared their experiences with provisional liturgies for same-sex blessings. • Investigation and planning for possibility of commissioning a piece of art work for The Commons with input from Commons design architect Duo Dickenson • Liturgical planning for Convention 2014, including organizing a massed choir of Children and adults for Convention Eucharist led by Fiona Sutherland of Trinity Church, Newtown. • The development and submission of a resolution to annual Convention asking General Convention 2015 to amend Article 10 of the Constitution, making it easier to introduce trial liturgies for provisional use. • Plans to purchase a keyboard instrument for The Commons suitable for lending for other functions of ECCT. The Commission on Liturgy and Music welcomes input, suggestions and participation in our common work from all parishes within our diocese that we may share ideas and practices that contribute to the Mission of God in Connecticut.
Thank you to the members of the Commission that so generously give of their time and talent to the Church.
Respectfully submitted, The Rev. Ann M. Ritonia Chairperson, Diocesan Commission for Liturgy and Music
77 THE TRUSTEES OF THE EPISCOPAL ACADEMY OF CONNECTICUT: 2014
The Trustees disburse income from funds held by the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut and use it for scholarship assistance to benefit clergy children at both the secondary school and college levels.
In July 2014, scholarships in the total amount of $36,500 were awarded to 20 young people to assist them with the expenses of their education.
Bishop’s Address Delivered to Convention on Saturday, October 25, 2014 by the Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas, Ph.D.
Thank you, Laura. Good morning saints. This might not look like the bishop’s address, but it is. We’re going to try something a little bit different this year, and specifically in this address, we are going in a different direction. Yes, my middle name is “Ted”, and for those of you who are familiar with the medium, this is your “Ted Talk” for a bishop’s address.
I want us today to consider what it means to be faithful as Christians in Connecticut. I dare say that Episcopalians, Anglican types of Christians in Connecticut, when we’ve been the most faithful, we’ve been people “of the times.” When we’ve been the most faithful, we’ve been people “of the moment.” Now why is that? That makes good sense because we believe in the God that became human, became very real, very particular at a time and place and, through the power of the Holy Spirit, that Incarnation is as real today as it was two thousand years ago. So when we are being the most faithful as disciples and apostles is when we are living into the moment of the Incarnation. I’m going to take us on a quick tour of our history to show how much we in the “land of steady habits” have been people of the moment, the moment of the Incarnation.
In the 18th century our Anglican forebears came up with this incredible idea to have voluntary societies known as missionary societies to help plant the gospel, specifically in foreign parts. It was a new idea; it was new in the Protestant Reformation and our English forebears in 1701 founded The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
This is the seal for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. One of the first and most important missionary fields of the Society for the Propagation of
78 the Gospel, the SPG, does anyone of us know where that is? It was here in Connecticut. During colonial times missionaries, some even born in Connecticut, supported by the venerable Society helped to plant close to forty congregations and parishes in colonial Connecticut, even in congregationally-established plantations we have missionaries from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel planting congregations in the 18th century.
Then of course something happened. We call it the American Revolution. That caused a huge crisis for those of us who are Anglicans because we were so identified with the Church of England. What were we going to do in a post-colonial, post-revolutionary church that historically was English-identified with the King, the one we have just thrown off. Believe it or not our English forebears, our Tory forebears were so much in the moment that they took on themselves that crazy idea of democracy. So when the forebears came together in Woodbury at the Glebe House and decided to elect a bishop, it had never been done before. It was an innovation; it was of the times, post- colonial, post-revolutionary United States. Yes, Connecticut was the innovator that thought of an elected bishop.
We all know how the rest of the story goes: Seabury, the Tory chaplain in the King’s army is elected, won’t take the oath of allegiance from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the crown, of course. Imagine that a Tory now not being able to take the oath of allegiance to the crown, gets ordained bishop by the non-juried bishops in Aberdeen [Scotland] and the first church outside of the British Isles is started. It is the beginning of the modern Anglican Communion: innovation, newness, responsive to the times.
Entering the 19th century, slowly the church is building, beginning to get itself together and we begin to think perhaps, just perhaps, that missionary society idea of the SPG might still work in this new 19th century. So Episcopalians in the new church in Connecticut organized in 1818, the same time we get our constitution in this state, we organize the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge for the Episcopal Church here in Connecticut, a voluntary society to help grow the church. Three years later in 1821 the General Convention of the Episcopal Church organizes and votes the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, a voluntary missionary society to help grow the church in the United States and around the world, in 1821. The church begins to grow, fledgling at first but then in 1835 the General Convention revisits the constitution of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society and says that every Episcopalian, not by voluntary subscription but every Episcopalian by virtue of baptism, is a member of the Missionary Society. Sisters and brothers, every one of us that identifies as an Episcopalian is a member of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society beginning in 1835. Sisters and brothers in Christ, our forebears, in the time of voluntary movements
79 in the 19th century begin to build the church in the cities, particularly in the industrialized new mill towns in Connecticut, and across the United States. What does Connecticut do? 1866 we follow suit with the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, we change that to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge and we become, our identity as Episcopalians in Connecticut, we become the Missionary Society of the Diocese of Connecticut in 1866, and we say every Episcopalian in Connecticut is a member of that Missionary Society.
That’s the 19th century. The church grew because of the work and our identity as missionaries by virtue of our baptism, missionaries in Connecticut through the Diocese of Connecticut Missionary Society and missionaries nationally and globally through the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society.
Coming into the turn of the 20th century with the ascendancy of the United States economically and politically in the world and similarly the ascendancy of an organization of mainline denominations the Episcopal Church began to enjoy new power and privilege in society. We were becoming, if you will, that mainline denomination; we were beginning to enjoy the fruits of Christendom. We began to see ourselves with a national church ideal as if it was our vocation to spread the richness of American democracy and the riches of Anglican tradition in a kind of pseudo- establishmentarian way here in Connecticut and to the ends of the earth.
This was the beginning, sisters and brothers, of the Cathedral Age. If we were going to act like a national church with all the power and privilege we also had to have cathedrals. So in 1919 after 160 years of its existence as a parish, we set aside Christ Church Cathedral as our cathedral and similarly cathedrals begin to be built across the United States. At the same time in 1919 our general church then known increasingly as the National Church centralizes its work in missions, education, and social service under a national council with an elected Presiding Bishop and an income source, assessments from dioceses. If you will, what we have euphemistically known as the National Church with the Executive Council and elected Presiding Bishop is born in 1919: big church, big government, big business. It’s the 20th century, the dawn of the 20th century.
What do we do in Connecticut? Our Convention of 1919 calls for an Executive Council. Let’s combine the resources we have in centralized programming in a centralized office. Imagine what we can do in the world if everything is clearly understood, centrally organized, centrally dissimilated, and we can do great things for God. So, 1952: centralization in the corporate ideal of the church needed centralized offices. We were given the gift of Diocesan House beginning in 1952. Increasingly, we saw the Diocese in the mid-20th century as that central corporation; that was the metaphor, that was the 20th century. Just like the National Church was sometimes known for its offices on
80 Second Avenue, 815. Get it? Elected Presiding Bishop, central offices; we can be like America. But, sisters and brothers, much of that has begun to change.
In the 21st century we are on the cusp of the loss of Christendom. Last year the Gallup Poll did a study on the religious and irreligious states of the United States based upon participation in church and identification of Christian membership. The most irreligious states in the United States went like this from top to bottom: Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut was Number 8, Rhode Island was Number 12. We live in the most irreligious part of the United States. We who have historically been the most privileged by Christendom now live on the margins of that Christendom. That’s the 21st century reality. All of those understandings of how we’ve been “church” are ebbing away in the loss of Christendom. Even the wonderful Cathedral meets by the pond with those who live outside as this picture shows.
Now we in Connecticut are not afraid, are not afraid of the changes. We never have been, we didn’t with the SPG, we didn’t with Seabury, we didn’t with the reformed missionary society, we didn’t with the Executive Council, and we shouldn’t today. It’s a new time. So we’re beginning to re-imagine ourselves.
You all have seen the new branding, moving away from the idea of the Diocese and we all are the Episcopal Church in Connecticut. We all are members of the Missionary Society. This new branding talks about our primary vocation in participating in God’s Mission.
This cross hearkens back to the cross of St. Andrew which is that continuity of Seabury’s Orders, yet it’s made up of different parts as it takes all of us in all of our differences to be about the Mission of God and it’s sending out. Notice how that cross is so active going out. We are beginning to re-imagine ourselves as the Episcopal Church in Connecticut. In addition we have sold Diocesan House and have moved into rented space in a former ball-bearing factory in Meriden. We’ve saved a lot of money, and yet it is so much is of the times, it’s open, it’s collaborative, it’s flexible, it’s where we need to be in the 21st century.
With the branding and The Commons, our space, are not the only changes afoot. Like the ways across the church, we are trying on new things, like the collaborations east of the river, or with women clergy, specifically which Bishop Ahrens has called together. The four leadership bodies: the Standing Committee, the Commission on Ministry, Trustees in Donations & Bequests, and the Executive Council have begun to meet
81 together now going on a year and a half. Imagine that, our elected bodies actually getting to know one another, and sharing of resources, and seeing themselves as community-development leaders.
We’ve changed a lot of our processes by which clergy are called to new cures, less do we search for the next perfect rector but instead we ask of what is God up to in this place. What kind of leadership does this community need, lay and ordained. Then let’s go out and find that ordained leader. Putting God’s Mission first is of the times. In addition to that we’ve started opportunities for Wardens and lay leaders to come together with your Bishops to discuss and ask what is God up to and what is proposed going forward, and you’ll see this in the budget if you look hard enough, it’s under Line L, is a new missionary program in cooperation with the leadership development initiative of the Diocese of Massachusetts which Audrey Scanlon is helping put together: Fifteen possible new missionaries across Connecticut within the next year.
We are beginning to change but we’re only on the front end of that change. And the broader Episcopal Church similarly is saying and recognizing that we need to re- imagine. That National Church ideal is gone in the general church just like it is in the ebbing away in this post-Christendom Connecticut. And so the last General Convention of the Episcopal Church 2012 invited a Taskforce for Re-imaging the Episcopal Church, known as TREC to actually look at the structures and governance in its administration of our core common life. You’ll see how there are parallel movements here in Connecticut and with the whole church and have been since the early 19th century. So of course we in Connecticut are beginning to embrace that acronym TREC, and of course we add –CT.
TREC-CT, that’s what we’re about. Its initiative came from at the last Convention and the work came about from the executive council to re-examine what is it about deaneries that are working or not working. Most, brothers and sisters, are struggling with what it means to be a deanery. Secondly, we were invited by Resolution 3 last year at Convention to examine where our parishes are in Connecticut. Thirdly, we promised through the work of the Faith-Order Committee to revisit the constitution of our Missionary Society. What do we need in our Missionary Society to accomplish work in the 21st century?
So the rest of this morning and this afternoon is part of the TREC-CT. Specifically, we will be using four, if you will, “watch words” given to us by TREC-National or TREC- General. [Catalyst, Connector, Capability Builder, Convenor] How do we need to be called together and catalyzed, how can the church beyond the parish in the Episcopal Church in Connecticut be a catalyst for each and every one of us live more deeply into our baptismal vows, catalyzing us for action in God Mission because of our baptism.
82 And what about connecting? How can the church, the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, help each and every one of us as individuals and as parishes connect with sister and brothers in Christ, other denominations, other faiths, other social service agencies, and one with another as parishes. Catalyst. Connector. Capability builder. What do we need in order to be missionaries in the 21st century? How can we move forward? Where do we need to grow? What capabilities do we have that need to be built? Capability builder.
And finally, convener. Coming together, just as we are doing here. We are convening fundamentally to be nourished with the Word of God and with the Holy Sacrament and with conversation one with another as we come together as missionaries in the 21st century. Catalyst, Connector. Capability builder. Convener. These are the invitations, the hangers, if you will, in our re-imagining exercise. We will revisit this in our next section.
So here we are on the dawn of the 21st century. We can be like our forebears and seize the moment. We can create the church that God wants us to be in this century. This is incredibly exciting work! We have nothing to fear! This is incredibly exciting work! We are being invited to join God in God’s Mission to restore all people in unity with God and each other in Christ. Let us walk into the Light! Let us go forward, trusting that God will have the church that God needs for God’s Mission to go forward in the world.
Because it really is the Missio Dei, the Mission of God that we are called to, not the church, but the Mission of God. And that Mission of God is exactly what we were dwelling in in scripture. It is about going out into the world receiving the hospitality of the other, healing the sick, mending those places, and as we receive from the other, contribute to the wholeness of God in the world. Then we can, in fact, proclaim that the Kingdom of God has come near. That is the Mission of God in our cities and to the ends of the earth. It’s why God became human and dwelt among us and it’s why the Holy Spirit continues to empower us. To be that church, that Body of Christ, that God needs for us to participate with God in God’s Mission. If not now, when? If not us, who?
Thank you.
83 Episcopal Acts
Parish Town Confirmed Received Christ Church Ansonia 5 15 Trinity Branford 3 6 St. John’s Bridgeport 3 St. Mark’s Bridgeport 3 1 St. John’s Bristol 3 Holy Advent Clinton 11 St. Luke’s Darien 51 St. Stephen’s East Haddam 6 St. Paul’s Fairfield 6 4 St. James’ Glastonbury 1 1 Christ Church Greenwich 16 St. Barnabus Greenwich 3 2 Christ Cathedral Hartford 4 Good Shepherd Hartford 5 6 St. Martin’s Hartford 1 Trinity Hartford 10 1 Trinity College Hartford 1 Kent School Kent 3 St. Andrew’s Madison 8 St. Mary’s Manchester 6 St. Peter’s Monroe 3 St. James’ New Haven 1 St. Luke’s New Haven 12 Trinity Newtown 24 2 St. Paul’s Norwalk 16 6 Christ Church Norwich 2 2 St. Ann’s Old Lyme 3 1 Good Shepherd Orange 4 St. John’s Pine Meadow 8 Christ Church Quaker Farms 2 2 Christ Church Redding 7 3 St. Stephen’s Ridgefield 17 4 St. Andrew Rocky Hill 4 Christ Church Sharon 4 2 Good Shepherd Shelton 2 St. Luke’s S. Glastonbury 5 3 Trinity Southport 22 Grace Stafford Springs 4 St. John’s Stamford 6
84 Parish Town Confirmed Received Trinity Tariffville 17 6 St. John’s Vernon 5 St. Paul’s Wallingford 7 Emmanuel Weston 7 1 Christ & Holy Trinity Westport 25 2 Trinity Whethersfield 2 St. Matthew’s Wilton 30
Bishops’ Additionals
Clergy transferred to the Diocese of Connecticut March 2, 2014 The Rev. Diane M. Rogers from the Diocese of Minnesota March 27, 2014 The Rev. Hilary Greer from the Diocese of New York May 12, 2014 The Rev. Richard Meadows from the Diocese of Central Florida May 29, 2014 The Rev. Adam Thomas from the Diocese of Massachusetts June 3, 2014 The Rev. Marissa Rohrbach from the Diocese of Pennsylvania June 13, 2014 The Rev. Patricia Coller from the Diocese of Western Massachusetts October 9, 2014 The Rev. Stephanie McDyre Johnson from the Diocese of New York October 28, 2014 The Rev. Robert Emmons Neville from the Diocese of El Camino Real
Clergy transferred from the Diocese of Connecticut February 4, 2014 The Rev. Robert Hendrickson III to the Diocese of Colorado February 7, 2014 The Rev. John Whitnah to the Diocese of North Dakota June 19, 2014 The Rev. Greta Getlein to the Diocese of Rhode Island August 25, 2014 The Rev. Patrick R. Perkins to the Diocese of Western Massachusetts Sept. 29, 2014 The Rev. Charles A. Davidson to the Diocese of Pennsylvania Sept. 8, 2014 The Rev. David Cobb to the Diocese of Chicago October 7, 2014 The Rev. Matthew Calkins to the Diocese of New York
Ordinations to the Transitional Diaconate Patrick Bush, March 29, 2014, Trinity Church, Tarriffville, Connecticut by the Rt. Rev. James E. Curry Kim Jeanne Litsey, October 5, 2014, Trinity Church, Hartford, Connecticut by the Rt. Rev. Laura J. Ahrens
Ordinations to the Priesthood Patricia Pasley, January 18, 2014, Church of the Good Shepherd, Orange, Connecticut by the Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas
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Michael Edward Carroll, March 15, 2014, St. John’s, Waterbury, Connecticut, by the Rt. Rev. James E. Curry
Margaret Allred Finnerud, August 21, 2014, St. Barnabas, Greenwich, Connecticut by the Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas on behalf of the Rt. Rev. Michael Curry, Diocese of North Carolina
Patrick Bush, December 16, 2014, Trinity Church, Tarriffville, Connecticut by the Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas.
Receptions of Priestly Vows The Rev. Robert Bergner, November 25, 2014, from the Diocese of Montreal, Anglican Church of Canada
Clergy Deaths The Rev. Kenneth Robinson December 18, 2013 in Winter Park FL The Rev. Carolyn Dukenski March 6, 2014 in Hartford, CT The Rev. Rowan Greer March 17, 2014 in Wallingford, CT The Rev. Sherrill Bronson Smith March 18, 2014 in Orleans, MA The Rev. Kenneth Hulme April 18, 2014 in Wallingford, CT The Rev. Jesse Yonge Bigham April 24, 2014 in Terryville, CT The Rev. Arthur Jameson Monk June 29, 2014 in Shelton, CT The Rev. David Boulton July 19, 2014 in Islesboro, ME The Rev. Vernella Alford Brown August 27, 2014 in Norwalk, CT The Rev. Richard Edwin Crews September 11, 2014 in Kent, CT The Rev. Joan Horwitt September 19, 2014 in New Haven, CT The Rev. Gladys Whitney October 9, 2014 in Branford, CT The Rev. Thomas Frank Beveridge October 12, 2014 in Hartford, CT The Rev. Ronald J. Cebik November 24, 2014 in Wallingford, CT The Rev. Gerald Gilmore December 20, 2014 in South Orleans, MA
86 The Episcopal Church In Connecticut 2015 Budget Draft 10/20/2014
2013 2014 2015 Actual Budget Budget REVENUE
Parish Support Contributins 4,831,448 4,350,000 4,380,000
Other Sources Episcopate Trustees support 280,000 280,000 300,000 Invested cash interest 20,770 24,000 6,000 Investment gains (losses) - unrestricted 2,000 2,000 D&B and trust fund income 49,246 45,000 0
Income from Missionary Society investments 153,000
Managment fee from Insurance 40,000 40,000 40,000 Reimbursement from Archives 30,250 25,000 30,000 Reimbursement from Bishop's Fund for Children 33,000 0 D&B fees toward financial assistant 40,000 89,207
Beebe Fund income 25,000 144,000
Total Other Sources 462,266 472,000 764,207
TOTAL REVENUE 5,293,714 4,822,000 5,144,207
EXPENSES Schedule "A" - National and World Mission 0 Episcopal Church Pledge 922,004 822,062 846,994 Provincial Synod Pledge 16,000 16,179 16,179 General Convention Travel & Expense 13,000 13,000 44,000 Companions In Mission 13,568 15,000 15,000 Millennium Fund 29,000 31,000 36,009 Total Schedule "A" - National and World Mission 993,572 897,241 958,183
Schedule "C" - Congregational Development Special Mission Opportunity Spanish Language Ministries Group 197,516 215,000 210,000 New Haven, St. Andrew's 20,000 15,000 10,000 Haitian Missioner (2012-Stamford, L'eglise de la Epiphanie) 63,192 46,240 50,000 Deaf Ministry -350 10,000 1,000 Emerging Urban Ministry Initiatives 5,000 5,000 5,000 Total Special Mission Opportunity 285,359 291,240 276,000 Congregational Development - Other 5,046 3,360 3,500 Total Schedule "C" - Congregational Development 290,405 294,600 279,500 Schedule "D" - Camp Washington Camp Washington Support 150,000 150,000 175,000 Total Schedule "D" - Camp Washington 150,000 150,000 175,000
Schedule "E" - Christian Formation Children and Youth Program Costs 2,423 12,000 7,000 Young Adults and Adults Program Costs 5,000 500 Young Adult Ministry Initiatives 5,000 5,000 6,000 Bishops and Confirmands dinners 1,500 Total Schedule "E" - Christian Formation 7,423 22,000 15,000
Schedule "F" - Ministry to Higher Education Page 1
87 Committee on Higher Education 4,430 5,000 5,000 Grants to Episcopal Related Ministry Episcopal Church at Yale 16,000 16,000 20,000 University Chaplain at UConn 52,766 53,550 55,000 Total Grants to Episcopal Related Ministry 73,196 74,550 80,000 Total Schedule "F" - Ministry to Higher Education 73,196 74,550 80,000
Schedule "G" - Stewardship Stewardship 1,000 3,000 3,000 Environmental and Energy Stewardship (Province I) 3,500 500 Total Schedule "G" - Stewardship 1,000 6,500 3,500
Schedule "I" - Communication & Media Canon for Mission Communication & Media Salaries and wages 82,879 82,879 88,592 FICA 6,226 6,303 6,777 Pension 9,945 9,946 10,631 Health and life insurance 11,342 11,342 13,454 Continuing education 1,500 1,500 Transportation 1,135 1,667 1,667 Professional expense 2,418 833 833 Total Canon for Mission Communication & Media 113,945 114,470 123,454 Communication & Media Assistant (24 Hours) Salaries and wages 12,030 18,460 25,742 FICA 937 1,412 1,969 Pension 3,089 Health and life insurance 7,812 Transportation 128 128 Professional expense 551 Total Communication & Media Assistant (1/2 Time) 13,518 20,000 38,740 Crux Magazine Program supplies/expenses 8,460 6,000 6,000 Bulk postage 40 6,500 General printing and graphics 20,200 17,000 24,000 Photography 3,185 4,000 3,500 Total Crux Magazine 31,885 27,000 40,000 Other Communications Seminar registration fees 350 500 500 Consultant (1099) 5,000 5,000 Program supplies/expenses 10,208 1,900 5,000 Membership dues 80 100 300 Total Other Communications 10,638 7,500 10,800 Web Site Development Computer supplies and fees 5,857 3,000 10,000 Program supplies/expenses 2,766 2,000 3,000 Total Web Site Development 8,623 5,000 13,000 Total Schedule "I" - Communication & Media 178,609 173,970 225,994
Schedule "J" - Ecumenical Relations CHRISCON 12,000 12,000 0 Ecumenical and Interfaith Programs 250 750 Total Schedule "J" - Ecumenical Relations 12,000 12,250 750
Schedule "K" - Diocesan Programs Committee for Liturgy & Music 1,500 1,500 2,000 Committee on Aging and Life Planning 445 250 250 Poet/Poetry Ministry 0 0 500
Visions: Multi-Culturalism and Anti-Racism project 33,000
Prison Ministry (Faith Behind Bars and Beyond) 746 1,000 1,500 Visions Training 7,751 5,000 0
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88 Healthcare Chaplains 500 500 Total Schedule "K" - Diocesan Programs 10,442 8,250 37,750
Schedule "L" - Mission Outreach in Connecticut New Missionary Iniatives 100,000 IRIS (formerly ESS) 48,000 48,000 48,000 Mission Development Fund 10,000 10,000 5,000 Women's Global Mission 0 0 1,500 Social Justice and Advocacy Committee 500 5,000 2,500 Social Justice Outreach 0 0 4,500 Combating Gender Violence 2,000 2,000 2,000 Total Schedule "L" - Mission Outreach in Connecticut 60,500 65,000 163,500
Schedule "M" - Episcopal Church in CT Convention & Mission Discernment Diocesan Convention Expenses 34,596 40,000 70,000 Less Diocesan Convention income -35,000 Secretary of Convention Salaries and wages 10,165 10,165 11,794 FICA allowance 1,028 1,028 1,083 Pension 2,015 2,015 2,123 Continuing education 214 0 Transportation 234 500 250 Total Secretary of Convention 13,442 13,922 15,250 Secretary of the Episcopal Church in CT & Executive Council Salaries and wages 5,165 5,165 12,537 FICA allowance 1,028 1,028 959 Housing allowance 5,000 5,000 0 Pension 2,707 2,015 1,504 Continuing education 214 214 0 Transportation 1,124 500 250 Total Secretary of the Episcopal Church in CT & Executive Council 15,238 13,922 15,250 Joint Leadership (Formerly Executive Council) Joint Leadership Meetings (Formerly Executive Council Mtgs) 11,181 5,000 6,000 Executive Council Project Teams BDEC Camp Washington Project Team 5,042 BDEC MRI Project Team 907 Total Executive Council Project Teams 5,948 0 0 Total Joint Leadership (Formerly Executive Council) 17,129 5,000 6,000 Total Schedule "M" - Diocesan Convention & Mission Discernme 80,404 72,844 71,500
Schedules "O" - Bishop's Ministry Schedule "O-1" - Diocesan Bishop Diocesan Bishop Salaries and wages 113,539 113,539 113,539 FICA allowance 11,682 11,682 11,682 Housing allowance 60,000 60,000 60,000 Pension 33,340 33,340 33,340 Health and life insurance 27,604 27,604 33,340 Continuing education 27 1,500 1,500 Transportation 11,000 11,000 2,500 Professional expense 13,323 12,000 12,000 Bishop's Confirmation Dinners 0 0 2,000 Bishop's Clergy (Affinity Group) 0 0 2,000 Assistants (meeting with Bishops Summer/BBQ) 0 0 500 Total Diocesan Bishop 270,515 270,665 272,401 Total Schedule "O-1" - Diocesan Bishop 270,515 270,665 272,401
Schedule "O-2" - Bishop Suffragan 1 Suffragan Bishop 1 - Bp. Curry Salaries and wages 72,262 72,262 0 FICA allowance 10,721 10,721 0 Housing allowance 47,000 47,000 0 Page 3
89 Pension 23,397 23,397 0 Health and life insurance 29,208 29,348 0 Continuing education 842 1,500 0 Transportation 9,000 9,000 0 Professional expense 10,513 12,000 0 Total Suffragan Bishop 1 - Bp. Curry 202,944 205,228 0 Total Schedule "O-2" - Bishop Suffragan 1 202,944 205,228 0
Schedule "O-3" - Bishop Suffragan 2 Suffragan Bishop 2 - Bp. Ahrens Salaries and wages 70,262 70,262 82,407 FICA allowance 10,721 10,721 11,813 Housing allowance 49,000 49,000 49,000 Pension 23,294 23,397 25,780 Health and life insurance 11,030 11,030 13,119 Continuing education 1,121 1,500 1,500 Transportation 9,000 9,000 2,500 Professional expense 21,418 12,000 12,000 Total Suffragan Bishop 2 - Bp. Ahrens 195,846 186,910 198,119 Total Schedule "O-3" - Bishop Suffragan 2 195,846 186,910 198,119
Schedule "O-4" - Miscellaneous Episcopate Assistant for Bishop's Fund for Children Salaries and wages 26,063 0 FICA 1,994 0 Pension 3,128 0 Continuing education 750 0 Total Assistant for Bishop's Fund for Children 0 31,935 0 Auxiliary Travel/Professional Expense and Lambeth Lambeth (2018) 3,000 3,000 2,000 Total Auxiliary Travel/Professional Expense and Lambeth 3,000 3,000 2,000 Parish Intervention Consultations 3,456 15,000 15,000 Clergy Pastoral Care 25,000 Miscellaneous Episcopate Hospitality 1,572 3,000 3,000 Other Episcopate 8,108 15,000 15,000 Cathedral Events 3,500 4,000 4,000 Bishop Supply 701 1,000 3,000 Bishop's Development Fund 2,828 5,000 5,000 Emergency Relief 7,000 7,000 11,000 Episcopal Election/Special Convention/Search Exp. 20,000 20,000 1,000 Mutual Ministry Review 3,000 Total Miscellaneous Episcopate 43,708 55,000 45,000 Bishops' Salary/Benefit Adjustments Salary Adjustment 11,000 0 Total Bishops' Salary/Benefit Adjustments 0 11,000 0 Total Schedule "O-4" - Miscellaneous Episcopate 50,164 115,935 87,000
Total Schedules "O" - Bishop's Ministry 719,469 778,738 557,520
Schedules "Q", "R" & "S" - Collaboration, Leadership & Suppo Schedule "Q" - Mission Collaboration & Congregational Life Canon for Mission Collaboration & Congregational Life Salaries and wages 58,850 58,850 60,740 FICA allowance 8,679 8,680 8,870 Housing allowance 27,000 27,000 27,000 Pension 17,015 17,015 17,390 Health and life insurance 29,348 29,348 35,333 Continuing education 3,329 1,500 1,500 Program supplies/expenses 56 Transportation 7,345 4,000 8,000 Hospitality 253 500 Page 4
90 Professional expense 1,982 2,000 2,000 Total Canon for Mission Collaboration & Congregational Life 153,858 148,393 161,333 Networking and Collaboration Program Costs 4,490 35,000 0 MRI 0 0 2,500 Who's My Neighbor 0 0 2,500 Collaborative Iniatives 0 0 15,000 Financial Literacy for Congregations 0 0 5,000 Communities of Practice 0 0 5,000 Evangelistic Training 0 0 2,500 Congregational Support 0 0 5,000 Total Schedule "Q" - Mission Collaboration & Congreg. Life 158,348 183,393 198,833
Schedule "R" - Parish Transition & Clergy Development Canon for Mission Leadership Salaries and wages 53,430 53,430 51,740 FICA allowance 8,637 8,637 8,870 Housing allowance 32,000 32,000 36,000 Pension 15,955 16,932 17,390 Health and life insurance 672 672 722 Continuing education 1,500 1,500 Program supplies/expenses 118 Transportation 4,191 3,000 3,000 Professional expense 5,717 3,000 6,000 Total Canon for Mission Leadership 120,719 119,171 125,222 Commission on Ministry Program Secretary of the Commission on Ministry Salaries and wages 11,545 0 FICA allowance 1,167 0 Housing allowance 12,712 0 Pension 2,288 2,288 0 Total Secretary of the Commission on Ministry 15,000 15,000 0 Commission On Ministry Costs 13,251 13,000 0 Program Income/Reimbursement 0 0 -4,000 Program Supplies Expense 0 0 10,000 Hospitality 0 0 2,000 Program Development 0 0 15,000 Minority Episcopal Theological Ed. Support 0 0 250 Education For Ministry (EFM) 0 0 2,500 Deacon Formation 1,314 10,000 5,000 C.O.M. - Continuing Education 2,148 10,000 10,000 Nominee Recruitment and Support 6,721 9,000 9,000 Dean of Formation Salaries and wages 9,331 11,608 15,786 FICA allowance 1,449 1,449 3,112 Housing allowance 5,000 2,723 15,000 Pension 2,148 2,840 6,102 Health and life insurance 0 0 2,430 Transportation 1,333 2,380 2,000 Total Dean of Formation 19,261 21,000 44,430
Total Commission on Ministry Program 59,010 88,000 94,180 New Programs/Clergy Development 69 6,000 0 Transition Program (Fresh Start) 4,517 6,650 0 Fresh Start 0 0 1,200 Recently Ordained Clergy 0 0 1,200 Interim Minister Insurance Gap 4,000 1,000 0 Interim Rector Insurance Gap 0 0 1,000 Sabbatical Support (PIC, IR) 0 0 1,000 Transitions Ministry-Discern & Recruit (Search Consult) 20,151 34,800 30,000 Priest-in-Charge Consultations 4,177 12,300 15,000 Recruiting Targets of Opportunity 744 2,500 0 Clergy Development Page 5
91 Clergy Conference Women in Leadership 0 0 500 Program income/reimbursement -25,550 -25,000 -25,000 Clergy Conference 36,402 35,000 35,000 Clergy Retreat 0 0 500 Total Clergy Conference 10,852 10,000 10,500 Total Clergy Development 10,852 10,000 10,500 Education for Ministry 2,500 2,500 3,000 Minority Episcopal Theological Ed. Support 800 800 0 Ethnic Leadership Clergy 800 0 Clergy Peer Groups Part Time 0 0 2,000 Ethnic Clergy 0 0 2,000 Priest In Charge 0 0 2,000 Interim Rector 0 0 2,000 Assistant Priests 2,000 Missional Priests 0 0 2,000 Consultant Training 2,000 4,000 Ordinands Training 760 4,200 0 IT Expenses (Program Support) 0 0 2,500 Total Schedule "R" - Parish Transition & Clergy Development 228,299 290,721 300,802
Schedule "S" - Pastoral Ministry Miscellaneous Clergy Support Clergy Family Assistance Program 40,765 40,000 40,000 Pastoral Support 2,151 20,000 0
Retired Clergy Insurance Premium 66,500 66,500 0
Retired Clergy 0 0 2,500 Total Miscellaneous Clergy Support 109,416 126,500 42,500 Canon for Mission Integrity & Training (Pastoral Response) Salaries and wages 96,406 96,406 96,114 FICA 7,385 7,375 7,353 Pension 11,569 11,569 11,534 Health and life insurance 984 984 4,089 Continuing education 300 1,500 1,500 Program supplies/expenses 21 Transportation 2,881 2,000 3,000 Hospitality 228 500 Professional expense 3,034 1,000 3,000 Total Canon for Mission Integrity & Training (Pastoral Respo 122,807 120,834 127,089 Pastoral Response and Parish Leadership Support Program Costs Pastoral Response Coordinator Program Costs Title IV: Ecclesiastical Discipline Program Costs 88 17,500 500 Title IV Intake Officer 4,812 7,000 10,000 Disciplinary Board 0 0 1,000 Advisors & Conciliators 0 0 1,000 Subtotal -- Pastoral Response Coordination 4,900 24,500 12,500 Parish Leadership Support Pastoral Response Intervention 10,732 6,000 12,000 Education for Laity 16,823 35,000 0 Safe Church Training 0 0 23,000 Spring Training Expenses 0 0 21,000 Less Spring Training Revenues -4,000 Bishops & Wardens Events 0 0 1,500 Bishops & Laity Gatherings 0 0 1,600 Laity Capacity Building 0 0 5,000 Parish Interventions 0 0 6,000 Best Practices Coaching 0 0 8,000 Subtotal -- Parish Leadership Support 27,555 41,000 74,100 Page 6
92 Total Schedule "S" - Pastoral Ministry 264,678 312,834 256,189
Total Schedules "Q", "R" & "S" - Collaboration, Leadership & 651,325 786,948 755,824
Schedule "T" - Support Services & Operations Support Staff and Office Operations Support Staff Administrator for the Bishops' Office/s Salaries and wages 56,895 60,071 58,588 FICA 4,386 4,491 4,482 Pension 4,423 7,209 7,031 Health and life insurance 16,336 27,916 35,668 Total Administrator for the Bishops' Office/s 82,040 99,687 105,768 Administrative Assistant for Finance Salaries and wages 29,388 0 FICA 2,248 0 Pension 3,527 0 Health and life insurance -52 312 0 Total Administrative Assistant for Finance -52 35,475 0 Administrator for Episcopal Programs Salaries and wages 53,961 52,405 55,328 FICA 4,052 3,971 4,233 Pension 6,519 6,289 6,639 Health and life insurance 11,342 11,342 13,454 Total Administrator for Episcopal Programs 75,874 74,007 79,654 Administrator for Transitions and Clergy Support Salaries and wages 49,629 49,585 52,361 FICA 3,775 3,726 4,006 Pension 6,004 5,950 6,283 Health and life insurance 20,046 20,046 23,607 Total Administrator for Transitions and Clergy Support 79,455 79,307 86,257 Administrator for Safe Church and Ordination Processes Salaries and wages 44,372 43,987 47,600 FICA 3,341 3,365 3,641 Pension 5,331 5,278 5,712 Health and life insurance 20,046 20,046 23,607 Total Administrator for Safe Church and Ordination Processes 73,089 72,676 80,560 Administrative Assistant for Mission Collaboration Salaries and wages 20,496 40,950 44,881 FICA 1,567 3,133 3,433 Pension 2,483 4,914 5,386 Health and life 5,567 11,342 13,454 Temporary and casual 25,373 Total Administrative Assistant for Mission Collaboration 55,486 60,339 67,154 Total Support Staff 365,892 421,491 419,393 Episcopal Church in CT Operations Program income/reimbursement -69 -1,000 -1,000 Lay Retiree insurance 24,996 25,628 2,000 Audit 20,145 20,000 20,000 Continuing Education 7,000 7,000 Legal (SF) 90,000 82,500 0 Consultant (1099) 11,130 Payroll fees 5,773 6,200 6,200 Bank fees 1,826 1,200 1,200 Other professional and contractual fees 10,000 Cable TV Service/Internet 1,478 1,500 1,500 Telephone installation 500 500 Telephone usage fees 17,054 20,000 20,000 Building repair 486 Maintenance contracts 19,491 20,000 20,000 Office supplies 12,945 10,000 10,000 Page 7
93 Computer supplies and fees 30,000 30,000 60,000 Transportation 574 1,000 1,000 Hospitality 6,177 7,000 7,000 Regular postage 9,115 15,000 10,000 Fed Ex postage 1,000 500 UPS postage 3,281 3,000 3,500 General printing and graphics 966 4,000 1,500 Copying services 5,000 2,500 Periodicals 739 2,500 1,000 Membership dues 450 1,500 1,500 Miscellaneous 1,812 5,000 3,000 Total ECCT Office Operations 268,371 268,528 178,900 Total Support Staff and Office Operations 634,263 690,019 598,293 Episcopal Church In CT Custodian & Facility Operations Episcopal Church In CT Facility Custodian Salaries and wages 29,915 29,915 0 FICA 2,298 2,288 0 Pension 3,590 3,590 0 Health and life insurance 984 984 0 Total Diocesan House Facility Custodian 36,787 36,777 0 Episcopal Church in CT Facility Operations Natural Gas 334 500 9,000 Oil 19,651 16,000 0 Electric 10,112 16,000 16,000 Water 589 700 0 Building\space rental 24,000 85,409 Common Area Maintenance (CAM) expense 10,000 Building repair 10,771 10,000 0 Office Cleaning 0 0 9,800
Grounds maintenance - contractor fees 19,341 23,000 0 Building insurance 22,164 31,000 25,000 Property taxes 25,465 Building supplies 1,795 4,000 2,000 Chapel supplies 30 500 1,000 Total Diocesan House Facility Operations 84,788 125,700 183,674 Total Diocesan House Custodian & Facility Operations 121,575 162,477 183,674 Temporary Help 25,021 10,000 25,000 Total Schedule "T" - Support Services & Operations 780,859 862,496 806,967
Schedule "U" - Finance & Administration Canon for Mission Finance & Operations Salaries and wages 95,162 95,162 95,278 FICA 6,989 7,175 7,289 Pension 11,419 11,419 11,433 Health and life insurance 29,660 29,660 35,668 Continuing education 2,155 1,500 1,500 Transportation 775 1,667 1,667 Professional expense 604 833 833 Total Canon for Mission Finance & Operations 146,765 147,416 153,668 Controller Salaries and wages 0 0 55,161 FICA 0 0 4,220 Pension 0 0 6,619 Health and life insurance 0 0 35,668 Total Controller 0 0 101,668 Accountant (AR) Salaries and wages 39,644 48,750 50,230 FICA 3,026 3,730 3,843 Pension 4,757 5,850 6,028 Health and life insurance 11,342 12,009 Page 8
94 Total Accountant (AR) 47,427 69,672 72,109 Accountant (AP) Salaries and wages 65,937 51,495 55,161 FICA 4,938 3,902 4,220 Pension 7,912 6,179 6,619 Health and life insurance 10,981 11,342 11,342 Total Accountant (AP) 89,768 72,918 77,342
Real Estate Manager Salaries and wages 54,325 FICA 4,156 Pension 6,519 Health and life insurance 2,580 Total Areal Estate Manager 67,580
Operations Manager Salaries and wages 25,520 39,150 55,997 FICA 1,911 2,995 4,284 Pension 3,152 4,698 6,720 Health and life insurance 13,364 20,046 24,600 Total Operations Manager 43,947 66,889 91,600
Sectretary of Donations and Bequests Salaries and wages 54,000 54,827 FICA 4,131 4,194 Pension 6,480 6,579 Health and life insurance 23,607 23,607 Total Secretary of Donations and Bequests 88,218 89,207
Total Schedule "U" - Finance & Administration 327,907 356,895 653,174
Schedule "V" - Archivist Archivist Salaries and wages 62,405 62,405 62,405 FICA 4,774 4,774 4,774 Pension 7,489 7,489 7,489 Health and life insurance 850 850 850 Continuing education 1,200 1,200 Transportation 92 500 1,000 Professional expense 600 500 1,000 Total Archivist 76,209 77,718 78,718 Archival Program Costs 5,382 3,000 3,000 Total Schedule "V" - Archivist 81,592 80,718 81,718
Other Expenses 102,258
Salary, Benefits and Merit Adjustments Salary Adjustments (Professional & Support) 34,000 0 Benefits Adjustments (Professional & Support) -5,000 0 Severance Pay 15,000 15,000 Total Salary, Benefits and Merit Adjustments 0 44,000 15,000
Diocesan Renovation Loan/Lease/Purchase Expense 150,000 0
Contingency @10% 0f Non Salary Expense 263,000
TOTAL EXPENSES 4,520,960 4,837,000 5,143,880
NET SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) 772,754 -15,000 327
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95 Parochial Membership Statistics 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 3 7 0 3 0 0 0 9 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 20 22 14 54 Confirmed or Received 2 1 0 4 4 6 0 0 3 0 7 6 0 2 2 0 3 2 8 6 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 4 2 0 0 13 33 Years Under 16 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 16 yrs B a p t i s m and Older 0 0 88 53 86 49 91 49 51 53 48 52 51 52 39 10 52 52 56 91 51 99 100 103 190 106 106 102 106 191 167 103 108 Sunday Eucharists 6 76 26 65 57 35 88 79 43 30 89 40 19 52 26 52 77 26 21 44 49 74 35 26 43 141 158 185 167 101 127 392 121 Sunday Average Attendance 0 0 4 0 0 5 3 8 5 2 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 3 0 10 18 26 16 10 65 37 134 100 Others 0 6 63 64 49 43 63 41 62 76 20 86 94 93 61 35 52 206 163 115 236 513 301 307 120 350 804 172 399 190 225 176 2,902 in Good Standing Communicants 6 85 64 53 46 53 66 76 49 86 93 61 35 54 271 174 175 236 143 513 346 325 239 385 329 399 550 310 135 415 Active 1,217 1,159 2,902 Members Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2014 Vital Statistics of Congregations and Missions Congregation Christ Church Episcopal St Pauls Episcopal Church Christ Church Episcopal Church of St Thomas Christ Episcopal Church Old St Andrews Episcopal Church St Stephens Episcopal Church St Georges Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church Calvary-St George Episcopal Church (2013) St Johns Episcopal Parish St Lukes-St Pauls Episcopal Church St Marks Episcopal Church St Marks Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church St Pauls Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church St Peters Episcopal Church Church of the Holy Advent Trinity Church Collinsville St James Episcopal Church St Albans Episcopal Church Ascension Church For Deaf (2007) St Luke Episcopal Church St Pauls Episcopal Church Immanuel St James Church Episcopal Church of the Epiphany St Gabriels Church St Stephens Episcopal Church All Saints Episcopal Church St Johns Church Christ and the Epiphany Church Diocese of Connecticut City Ansonia Bantam Bethany Bethel Bethlehem Bloomfield Bloomfield Bolton Branford Bridgeport Bridgeport Bridgeport Bridgeport Bridgewater Bristol Broad Brook Brookfield Brooklyn Cheshire Clinton Collinsville Danbury Danielson Darien Darien Darien Derby Durham East Berlin East Haddam East Hartford East Hartford East Haven
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0 9 0 0 5 0 1 0 2 5 7 0 1 4 2 1 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 4 0 2 10 16 11 10 Confirmed or Received 2 3 4 7 1 1 2 2 3 4 5 4 3 3 5 1 0 2 8 5 3 1 3 0 0 0 1 7 6 2 0 10 40 Years Under 16 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 14 16 yrs B a p t i s m and Older 0 0 80 85 45 93 98 91 84 51 90 52 51 95 41 96 94 51 76 157 142 115 156 206 104 104 104 208 104 105 110 103 101 Sunday Eucharists 81 50 92 68 23 82 44 78 70 50 75 96 79 31 29 93 24 72 76 23 36 30 197 206 114 111 106 453 117 183 195 118 137 Sunday Average Attendance 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 2 33 12 23 48 12 39 54 41 15 30 40 33 10 11 Others 45 72 80 79 84 46 46 59 183 253 238 306 878 157 216 147 454 237 252 106 147 272 190 245 459 307 270 140 139 179 307 135 1,688 in Good Standing Communicants 45 79 46 46 67 183 333 302 433 983 251 286 283 457 417 462 106 147 462 190 104 210 245 598 307 124 361 158 413 376 307 137 Active 1,964 Members Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2014 Vital Statistics of Congregations and Missions Congregation St Johns Episcopal Church Parish of Christ Church Holy Trinity Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Church St Pauls Episcopal Church St Timothys Church Trinity St Michaels Episcopal Church St James Episcopal Church St Davids Episcopal Church St James Episcopal Church Christ Church Greenwich St Barnabas Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Church Grace and St Peters Church Christ Church Cathedral Good Shepherd/El Buen Pastor Grace Episcopal Church St Martin Episcopal Church St Monicas Church Trinity Episcopal Church St Peters Episcopal Church St James Episcopal Church All Saints Episcopal Church St Andrews Church Emmanuel Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church (Limerock) St Michaels Church Episcopal Trinity Episcopal Church St Andrews Church St Marys Episcopal Church St Andrews Episcopal Church All Saints Church Diocese of Connecticut City East Windsor Easton Enfield Essex Fairfield Fairfield Fairfield Farmington Gales Ferry Glastonbury Greenwich Greenwich Guilford Guilford Hamden Hartford Hartford Hartford Hartford Hartford Hartford Hebron Higganum Ivoryton Kent Killingworth Lakeville Litchfield Litchfield Madison Manchester Marble Dale Meriden
97 0 0 0 6 0 0 3 0 0 0 4 0 2 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 3 2 4 0 0 24 26 22 Confirmed or Received 0 0 2 3 4 6 5 3 1 9 1 6 4 0 0 0 8 0 5 1 4 6 7 1 5 2 7 6 3 3 11 10 11 Years Under 16 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 16 yrs B a p t i s m and Older 0 54 48 86 50 85 49 52 52 70 51 93 52 99 52 64 103 110 105 103 147 141 100 196 145 114 103 152 104 107 101 101 102 Sunday Eucharists 66 46 48 93 58 72 81 32 19 78 63 79 76 75 20 61 49 66 72 51 121 125 120 297 193 119 144 386 119 259 135 136 272 Sunday Average Attendance 3 0 0 3 0 3 0 3 6 0 6 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 1 77 15 40 20 22 22 15 82 24 20 25 12 111 125 Others 89 82 15 10 93 42 324 147 243 102 178 221 177 289 246 137 200 149 186 741 222 150 772 389 125 329 189 100 461 118 283 148 1,397 in Good Standing Communicants 82 16 64 83 456 119 160 277 103 256 273 502 289 449 205 222 149 226 186 837 327 249 222 772 446 255 329 194 676 199 283 207 Active 1,397 Members Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2014 Vital Statistics of Congregations and Missions Congregation St Andrews Episcopal Church Christ Church St George Episcopal Church Church of the Holy Trinity St Andrew Episcopal St Peters Church St Peters on the Green St Marks Episcopal Church St Michaels Episcopal Parish St Marks Episcopal Church St Marks Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Church of St Thomas St Andrews Episcopal Church (2012) St James Episcopal Church St Johns Church (2012) St Lukes Episcopal Church St Paul - James Episcopal Church Trinity Church on the Green St James Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church Trinity Church Episcopal St Johns Episcopal Church Zion Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Church St Andrew Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Iglesia Betania Episcopal (2011) St Pauls on the Green Christ Episcopal Church All Saints Episcopal Church St Saviours Church Diocese of Connecticut City Meriden Middle Haddam Middlebury Middletown Milford Milford Monroe Mystic Naugatuck New Britain New Canaan New Haven New Haven New Haven New Haven New Haven New Haven New Haven New Haven New London New Milford Newington Newtown Niantic North Branford North Haven Northford Norwalk Norwalk Norwalk Norwich Oakville Old Greenwich
98 4 0 2 5 0 8 0 0 0 0 2 0 7 4 0 0 0 2 6 2 9 0 8 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 10 21 22 Confirmed or Received 5 5 5 2 5 0 0 6 0 6 0 2 9 8 2 4 0 3 3 3 4 2 7 1 0 0 0 0 2 14 12 10 11 Years Under 16 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 yrs B a p t i s m and Older 0 94 90 99 51 93 49 95 84 52 51 86 52 99 51 94 89 93 50 48 22 103 104 129 104 100 114 118 150 101 100 107 103 Sunday Eucharists 97 45 82 61 32 57 67 17 86 64 66 10 48 25 38 49 63 69 43 32 26 29 43 110 104 110 179 196 136 157 110 133 157 Sunday Average Attendance 0 3 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 7 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 9 1 1 10 20 92 59 32 20 70 Others 0 72 54 24 56 24 58 70 88 79 76 53 37 156 239 229 192 175 112 348 121 236 654 518 342 208 127 224 230 124 290 770 120 in Good Standing Communicants 72 54 24 35 72 79 76 37 226 314 229 259 245 112 436 285 171 340 654 562 493 158 208 127 191 302 197 302 178 334 893 109 120 Active Members Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2014 Vital Statistics of Congregations and Missions Congregation St Anns Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church Church of the Good Shepherd Christ Church Quaker Farms St Peters Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Church St Pauls Episcopal Church Church of Our Saviour Christ Church Episcopal Trinity Church (2013) St James Church St Philip Episcopal Parish Christ Church Parish St Stephens Church St Pauls Church St Andrew the Apostle Christ Church St Johns Episcopal Church St Johns Church Trinity Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Church of the Good Shepherd St Pauls Episcopal Church St Albans Episcopal Church St Lukes Episcopal Church St Peters Episcopal Church Church of the Epiphany St Pauls Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church Grace Church Parish Episcopal Church of Christ the Healer Eglise De L'Epiphanie St Andrews Church Diocese of Connecticut City Old Lyme Old Saybrook Orange Oxford Oxford Pine Meadow Plainfield Plainville Pomfret Portland Preston Putnam Redding Ridgefield Riverside Rocky Hill Roxbury Salisbury Sandy Hook Seymour Sharon Shelton Shelton Simsbury South Glastonbury South Windsor Southbury Southington Southport Stafford Springs Stamford Stamford Stamford
99 6 4 0 0 0 5 5 0 0 8 7 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 8 2 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 11 23 27 27 Confirmed or Received 2 4 9 4 1 1 0 7 6 5 2 5 2 0 5 0 1 2 0 6 0 4 1 2 6 0 1 10 11 13 19 10 20 Years Under 16 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 16 yrs B a p t i s m and Older 4 98 98 52 55 52 89 95 99 56 92 37 53 53 50 56 24 52 55 51 100 155 110 181 103 103 126 102 138 100 111 102 145 Sunday Eucharists 6 74 97 90 82 49 33 65 78 35 75 14 47 71 39 53 82 34 46 99 36 25 115 186 247 102 131 131 130 239 200 231 178 Sunday Average Attendance 5 0 0 0 0 4 5 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 8 0 8 5 3 4 45 26 35 12 70 11 50 17 70 30 11 116 616 Others 6 0 65 40 45 45 98 80 83 54 317 310 326 186 175 524 208 256 108 187 276 303 159 238 940 840 140 191 548 142 184 226 135 in Good Standing Communicants 6 86 81 74 78 59 325 997 590 173 357 524 260 332 108 187 276 844 371 436 857 205 191 682 380 103 229 125 173 296 122 Active 1,067 1,245 Members Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2014 Vital Statistics of Congregations and Missions Congregation St Francis Church St Johns Church Calvary Church St Marks Chapel Christ Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church St Peters/Trinity Church Trinity Episcopal Church (2012) Christ Episcopal Church Tashua Grace Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church (Nichols) St Johns Episcopal Church St Pauls Episcopal Church St Johns Church Christ Church St Johns Episcopal Church St James Church Episcopal St Johns Church Episcopal St Pauls Mission of the Deaf (2012) Church of the Holy Spirit St Pauls Episcopal Church Emmanuel Episcopal Church Christ and Holy Trinity Church Trinity Episcopal Church St Pauls Episcopal Church St Matthews Episcopal Church St Pauls Church Grace Church Episcopal St James Episcopal Church All Saints Episcopal Church St Pauls Episcopal Church St John Evangelist Episcopal Grace Church Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut City Stamford Stamford Stonington Storrs Stratford Tariffville Thomaston Torrington Trumbull Trumbull Trumbull Vernon Wallingford Washington Waterbury Waterbury West Hartford West Hartford West Hartford West Haven Westbrook Weston Westport Wethersfield Willimantic Wilton Windham Center Windsor Winsted Wolcott Woodbury Yalesville Yantic
100 611 Confirmed or Received 674 Years Under 16 56 16 yrs B a p t i s m and Older Sunday Eucharists 14,210.00 15,101 Sunday Average Attendance 3,014 Others 38,398 in Good Standing Communicants Active 52,175 Members Total Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2014 Vital Statistics of Congregations and Missions Congregation Diocese of Connecticut City
101 Parochial Financial Statistics 138 Total 6,814 78,771 83,649 27,493 40,571 92,137 72,032 80,164 Expense 231,149 240,943 157,566 365,226 120,508 444,404 119,297 199,859 125,342 101,138 171,431 407,282 604,864 156,689 383,066 444,879 483,318 201,217 3,043,877 0 0 598 500 1,050 9,566 6,176 5,024 8,200 4,103 1,725 38,163 10,806 25,336 35,000 14,629 14,066 10,550 21,349 69,988 17,162 95,893 68,641 39,744 61,606 108,547 165,289 570,316 Outreach & Development 0 E X P N S 814 138 8,400 4,800 8,304 3,348 7,056 3,850 3,391 To the 19,356 26,904 14,760 40,992 37,680 18,330 10,000 12,528 11,498 14,316 26,196 39,423 16,800 28,990 53,436 15,000 13,492 Diocese 184,000 138 6,814 78,771 73,249 86,607 27,493 95,288 32,371 92,137 72,032 80,114 Expense 192,680 225,930 150,284 333,166 324,963 104,668 186,393 111,521 151,417 337,294 421,593 140,605 279,200 430,084 478,318 138,084 Operating 1,797,155 672 75,170 71,910 81,377 38,424 98,564 44,720 83,171 64,459 224,978 208,453 182,290 402,771 120,026 397,295 243,821 210,965 121,050 171,431 410,619 105,244 690,566 147,400 440,335 451,863 516,143 189,835 2,791,187 Total Revenue 672 75,170 67,484 81,377 84,500 33,296 97,070 42,085 83,171 64,459 Revenue 193,222 201,243 150,435 340,452 338,344 107,829 190,495 109,416 134,632 261,592 101,616 423,721 147,400 273,228 438,544 516,143 128,235 Operating 1,814,075 R E V N U 672 Income 93,713 48,651 25,904 64,212 79,424 46,762 24,949 97,116 44,949 35,780 82,953 20,915 20,343 90,325 192,974 150,430 207,526 272,367 115,945 107,657 261,592 354,260 147,400 267,115 272,740 506,994 1,760,921 Plate & Pledge Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2014 Financial Statistics of Congregations and Missions Congregation Christ Church Episcopal St Pauls Episcopal Church Christ Church Episcopal Church of St Thomas Christ Episcopal Church Old St Andrews Episcopal Church St Stephens Episcopal Church St Georges Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church Calvary-St George Episcopal Church (2013) St Johns Episcopal Parish St Lukes-St Pauls Episcopal Church St Marks Episcopal Church St Marks Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church St Pauls Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church St Peters Episcopal Church Church of the Holy Advent Trinity Church Collinsville St James Episcopal Church St Albans Episcopal Church Ascension Church For Deaf (2007) St Luke Episcopal Church St Pauls Episcopal Church Immanuel St James Church Episcopal Church of the Epiphany Diocese of Connecticut City Ansonia Bantam Bethany Bethel Bethlehem Bloomfield Bloomfield Bolton Branford Bridgeport Bridgeport Bridgeport Bridgeport Bridgewater Bristol Broad Brook Brookfield Brooklyn Cheshire Clinton Collinsville Danbury Danielson Darien Darien Darien Derby Durham
102 0 Total 92,118 75,875 84,346 60,450 56,600 Expense 191,367 266,577 144,166 385,567 188,016 354,871 626,666 760,137 508,014 368,611 308,834 343,031 968,055 318,303 319,709 408,569 281,928 189,856 867,338 280,812 4,340,684 1,403,957 0 282 9,618 8,391 6,827 1,500 2,309 1,910 8,522 3,170 31,818 59,552 92,363 11,817 22,780 20,290 88,604 49,743 40,972 11,074 49,996 95,829 87,781 147,735 156,248 130,365 330,522 Outreach 2,232,064 & Development 0 E X P N S 9,336 8,335 8,304 9,600 To the 15,399 11,244 11,604 16,428 28,344 37,608 57,792 70,776 31,140 26,940 30,392 42,972 31,248 28,980 41,796 22,776 12,648 20,782 48,204 19,680 Diocese 180,000 105,744 130,092 0 82,500 69,261 84,048 58,258 53,430 Expense 158,529 118,842 144,166 240,198 179,048 293,726 529,522 755,876 349,321 368,611 265,732 321,471 916,087 269,586 277,312 393,838 231,400 187,627 772,364 188,309 Operating 2,173,529 1,072,003 97,864 89,115 86,882 48,600 87,151 67,759 59,955 190,539 290,139 329,153 187,036 375,495 651,506 772,605 350,717 284,381 328,591 340,144 373,054 322,849 405,180 296,442 226,294 874,789 262,778 4,293,842 1,015,649 1,990,186 Total Revenue 88,520 83,467 86,882 48,600 84,151 65,959 59,955 Revenue 157,461 110,963 210,122 180,170 299,117 539,336 734,354 227,896 284,381 269,620 313,553 865,698 248,632 319,336 353,656 244,322 187,442 842,078 180,558 Operating 1,793,472 1,064,222 R E V N U Income 65,582 79,657 34,397 60,869 18,000 72,860 33,403 57,277 44,251 134,376 126,194 107,012 205,081 490,305 377,771 149,829 261,074 269,620 290,147 740,984 236,566 143,421 189,560 143,294 187,442 403,470 143,010 1,495,815 Plate & Pledge Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2014 Financial Statistics of Congregations and Missions Congregation St Gabriels Church St Stephens Episcopal Church All Saints Episcopal Church St Johns Church Christ and the Epiphany Church St Johns Episcopal Church Parish of Christ Church Holy Trinity Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Church St Pauls Episcopal Church St Timothys Church Trinity St Michaels Episcopal Church St James Episcopal Church St Davids Episcopal Church St James Episcopal Church Christ Church Greenwich St Barnabas Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Church Grace and St Peters Church Christ Church Cathedral Good Shepherd/El Buen Pastor Grace Episcopal Church St Martin Episcopal Church St Monicas Church Trinity Episcopal Church St Peters Episcopal Church St James Episcopal Church Diocese of Connecticut City East Berlin East Haddam East Hartford East Hartford East Haven East Windsor Easton Enfield Essex Fairfield Fairfield Fairfield Farmington Gales Ferry Glastonbury Greenwich Greenwich Guilford Guilford Hamden Hartford Hartford Hartford Hartford Hartford Hartford Hebron Higganum
103 Total 61,817 86,090 16,485 37,531 77,756 76,760 Expense 625,189 104,617 218,015 423,272 487,435 426,416 539,523 120,278 141,700 368,737 140,587 363,910 248,736 342,186 424,865 390,308 618,294 476,013 213,833 278,753 273,623 2,216,065 0 0 0 949 1,155 5,821 7,485 6,887 3,329 2,300 4,547 52,483 17,583 59,059 16,693 12,814 30,097 56,913 19,306 79,460 66,480 95,496 56,953 333,662 150,584 109,613 185,798 305,109 Outreach & Development E X P N S 666 7,076 5,654 7,200 9,000 4,552 7,764 5,400 8,004 To the 36,612 17,149 36,804 40,188 40,980 30,396 13,956 15,960 29,988 12,264 26,148 32,568 21,984 47,268 50,964 42,936 11,261 13,200 Diocese 157,560 9,000 61,817 56,752 69,047 37,531 77,756 73,083 Expense 267,708 203,057 360,384 331,487 421,266 428,748 109,606 133,172 343,298 137,758 302,600 226,053 264,096 238,842 386,840 551,814 385,716 163,455 278,753 273,623 Operating 1,865,729 64,276 95,290 73,390 67,522 54,974 78,324 57,839 428,805 208,736 453,198 425,812 516,496 125,408 144,453 403,306 140,018 374,409 212,630 293,185 480,718 409,152 732,008 449,449 169,090 250,985 275,176 1,272,030 3,681,308 Total Revenue 64,276 47,120 70,940 66,861 54,974 77,071 57,571 Revenue 261,371 180,122 394,369 288,747 418,362 516,496 118,553 140,327 403,306 140,018 295,972 193,075 253,806 240,040 408,907 547,526 335,805 168,755 250,985 270,855 Operating 1,754,790 R E V N U 6,869 Income 49,376 37,905 50,476 48,608 96,742 84,779 41,881 15,646 236,389 157,362 283,143 206,014 324,314 111,667 260,548 117,281 242,569 150,543 245,917 128,384 154,134 209,781 135,520 145,981 231,868 159,663 1,604,780 Plate & Pledge Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2014 Financial Statistics of Congregations and Missions Congregation All Saints Episcopal Church St Andrews Church Emmanuel Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church (Limerock) St Michaels Church Episcopal Trinity Episcopal Church St Andrews Church St Marys Episcopal Church St Andrews Episcopal Church All Saints Church St Andrews Episcopal Church Christ Church St George Episcopal Church Church of the Holy Trinity St Andrew Episcopal St Peters Church St Peters on the Green St Marks Episcopal Church St Michaels Episcopal Parish St Marks Episcopal Church St Marks Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Church of St Thomas St Andrews Episcopal Church (2012) St James Episcopal Church St Johns Church (2012) St Lukes Episcopal Church St Paul - James Episcopal Church Diocese of Connecticut City Ivoryton Kent Killingworth Lakeville Litchfield Litchfield Madison Manchester Marble Dale Meriden Meriden Middle Haddam Middlebury Middletown Milford Milford Monroe Mystic Naugatuck New Britain New Canaan New Haven New Haven New Haven New Haven New Haven New Haven New Haven
104 Total 61,927 34,287 79,987 75,049 34,692 Expense 529,793 209,088 155,788 924,290 332,608 182,685 322,304 132,347 745,061 358,009 160,797 283,919 559,138 363,705 258,780 195,226 104,567 233,016 310,728 179,493 193,458 309,874 1,432,380 0 0 0 689 1,320 7,064 1,350 2,246 2,559 5,630 1,545 17,016 78,981 21,747 68,108 70,022 40,958 68,426 26,633 19,113 12,978 11,858 38,375 24,250 21,636 343,292 122,625 187,668 Outreach & Development E X P N S 7,068 5,304 9,075 7,468 9,416 3,482 To the 38,052 27,384 15,624 95,521 32,532 21,900 33,768 14,280 45,000 31,380 15,996 27,180 48,588 27,996 24,000 14,496 13,996 33,780 21,156 16,936 34,992 Diocese 117,132 54,673 21,687 93,494 78,995 73,989 34,692 Expense 404,072 209,088 140,134 746,819 258,518 182,685 290,985 132,347 669,308 297,448 160,797 250,306 490,118 335,346 249,067 178,410 188,468 286,478 175,391 184,153 278,406 Operating 1,076,932 59,919 31,820 76,189 90,048 33,264 814,798 189,442 148,480 902,845 329,252 252,427 309,988 124,820 777,689 437,060 151,238 282,753 485,169 349,621 271,274 195,226 114,684 220,775 310,927 250,034 202,084 310,620 1,428,637 Total Revenue 58,606 31,820 74,675 89,905 33,264 Revenue 976,946 393,026 189,442 145,581 746,819 279,909 172,427 275,937 124,820 656,021 347,265 147,442 255,799 356,643 330,561 237,793 178,410 110,699 203,869 296,256 174,806 197,909 278,406 Operating R E V N U Income 39,736 24,820 87,760 61,192 32,908 21,787 463,763 232,511 150,035 108,129 444,985 259,292 115,848 210,103 124,820 553,608 117,326 108,801 139,257 233,853 297,035 234,124 161,352 166,220 251,439 118,633 102,533 252,757 Plate & Pledge Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2014 Financial Statistics of Congregations and Missions Congregation Trinity Church on the Green St James Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church Trinity Church Episcopal St Johns Episcopal Church Zion Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Church St Andrew Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Iglesia Betania Episcopal (2011) St Pauls on the Green Christ Episcopal Church All Saints Episcopal Church St Saviours Church St Anns Episcopal Church Grace Episcopal Church Church of the Good Shepherd Christ Church Quaker Farms St Peters Episcopal Church St Johns Episcopal Church St Pauls Episcopal Church Church of Our Saviour Christ Church Episcopal Trinity Church (2013) St James Church St Philip Episcopal Parish Christ Church Parish Diocese of Connecticut City New Haven New London New Milford Newington Newtown Niantic North Branford North Haven Northford Norwalk Norwalk Norwalk Norwich Oakville Old Greenwich Old Lyme Old Saybrook Orange Oxford Oxford Pine Meadow Plainfield Plainville Pomfret Portland Preston Putnam Redding
105 Total 42,367 97,349 87,457 17,345 Expense 907,338 261,091 202,464 270,281 427,095 145,618 351,962 222,476 203,335 290,109 166,314 306,563 977,203 190,806 245,337 434,108 712,320 336,423 357,610 740,551 207,340 374,975 1,135,091 1,725,279 0 0 0 985 5,868 9,068 8,100 2,953 1,607 3,301 4,650 7,514 95,244 58,964 11,909 30,191 20,425 22,550 32,144 53,542 32,913 19,422 28,591 262,506 258,146 718,538 118,093 126,118 Outreach & Development 0 E X P N S 3,983 8,004 9,504 8,903 5,415 8,004 To the 65,374 79,224 28,139 13,750 20,004 45,270 34,133 10,000 18,898 23,004 10,753 33,723 21,000 17,712 45,504 94,998 65,620 37,079 28,341 51,104 21,795 Diocese 35,614 97,349 87,457 17,345 Expense 844,588 804,530 259,049 202,464 270,281 375,453 140,565 349,388 222,476 194,880 214,209 166,314 259,933 749,815 169,856 213,193 403,901 912,827 606,907 294,049 341,150 611,097 198,949 346,299 Operating 39,183 88,022 80,319 19,594 948,373 278,151 206,143 277,268 411,183 172,011 448,757 227,748 207,984 242,438 141,295 313,356 972,223 186,576 162,706 383,746 305,404 261,988 783,123 220,659 377,312 1,730,415 1,430,572 1,022,856 Total Revenue 37,668 88,022 80,319 19,594 Revenue 854,900 772,489 260,135 206,143 268,968 356,728 134,294 347,560 226,725 168,768 203,360 120,870 271,497 734,729 165,626 162,706 378,655 901,808 626,960 288,428 261,988 610,502 213,096 339,650 Operating R E V N U Income 94,970 24,447 95,756 75,414 61,243 65,460 61,129 58,835 19,594 90,032 83,521 542,333 513,979 210,315 179,278 239,002 146,901 109,674 203,090 206,371 463,823 305,731 171,731 621,960 207,042 119,945 552,643 258,855 Plate & Pledge Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2014 Financial Statistics of Congregations and Missions Congregation St Stephens Church St Pauls Church St Andrew the Apostle Christ Church St Johns Episcopal Church St Johns Church Trinity Episcopal Church Christ Episcopal Church Church of the Good Shepherd St Pauls Episcopal Church St Albans Episcopal Church St Lukes Episcopal Church St Peters Episcopal Church Church of the Epiphany St Pauls Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church Grace Church Parish Episcopal Church of Christ the Healer Eglise De L'Epiphanie St Andrews Church St Francis Church St Johns Church Calvary Church St Marks Chapel Christ Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church St Peters/Trinity Church Trinity Episcopal Church (2012) Diocese of Connecticut City Ridgefield Riverside Rocky Hill Roxbury Salisbury Sandy Hook Seymour Sharon Shelton Shelton Simsbury South Glastonbury South Windsor Southbury Southington Southport Stafford Springs Stamford Stamford Stamford Stamford Stamford Stonington Storrs Stratford Tariffville Thomaston Torrington
106 Total 7,981 90,630 35,449 95,917 79,605 56,746 60,269 Expense 190,040 169,758 240,284 252,076 380,121 460,198 401,558 788,614 240,781 342,279 236,414 844,582 135,488 245,779 106,937 334,668 1,120,973 1,427,910 61,021,335 0 100 300 500 1,479 4,849 6,210 4,282 3,993 3,386 8,794 10,497 31,701 26,246 67,873 29,548 52,730 22,372 55,308 34,841 26,000 12,859 26,858 201,466 253,860 Outreach 10,802,168 & Development E X P N S 6,792 7,200 2,042 4,176 8,172 5,704 4,908 To the 14,100 18,012 25,776 28,446 37,964 52,176 73,547 80,688 24,425 22,604 31,632 50,000 11,628 11,004 10,142 11,463 27,148 Diocese 134,748 4,722,705 7,981 84,596 35,449 95,917 53,605 92,819 52,818 51,339 Expense 179,280 165,545 212,053 251,377 353,675 388,650 389,755 775,560 848,667 240,307 289,549 204,741 750,842 131,050 211,709 299,990 Operating 1,149,698 49,311,670 6,708 90,630 51,331 95,917 61,565 97,139 55,821 67,246 207,083 141,099 225,095 258,511 312,445 486,314 343,972 830,586 919,755 240,781 259,260 209,236 885,963 122,737 222,039 256,977 1,375,065 64,135,184 Total Revenue 6,708 89,630 46,331 95,917 61,565 85,823 52,259 49,245 Revenue 163,833 135,414 214,755 258,511 307,867 360,737 331,169 756,225 731,018 240,307 215,730 193,710 741,820 110,756 219,966 242,653 Operating 1,140,617 47,784,639 R E V N U 673 Income 85,694 35,978 30,936 59,818 30,762 66,234 44,073 34,439 114,387 111,094 242,002 251,803 263,807 152,985 552,616 490,966 121,613 214,707 944,308 133,868 682,426 108,336 203,130 185,995 33,554,347 Plate & Pledge Year in parentheses is last year of filing if not 2014 Total Financial Statistics of Congregations and Missions Congregation Christ Episcopal Church Tashua Grace Episcopal Church Trinity Episcopal Church (Nichols) St Johns Episcopal Church St Pauls Episcopal Church St Johns Church Christ Church St Johns Episcopal Church St James Church Episcopal St Johns Church Episcopal St Pauls Mission of the Deaf (2012) Church of the Holy Spirit St Pauls Episcopal Church Emmanuel Episcopal Church Christ and Holy Trinity Church Trinity Episcopal Church St Pauls Episcopal Church St Matthews Episcopal Church St Pauls Church Grace Church Episcopal St James Episcopal Church All Saints Episcopal Church St Pauls Episcopal Church St John Evangelist Episcopal Grace Church Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut City Trumbull Trumbull Trumbull Vernon Wallingford Washington Waterbury Waterbury West Hartford West Hartford West Hartford West Haven Westbrook Weston Westport Wethersfield Willimantic Wilton Windham Center Windsor Winsted Wolcott Woodbury Yalesville Yantic
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Appendix
Containing the
Constitution of the Diocese Connecticut
And the
Canons of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
108 Constitution of the Diocese of Connecticut
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Article I. Name and Location of Diocese, Accession to Constitution of Episcopal Church Article II. Annual Convention Article III. Ecclesiastical Authority and Succession, and Election of a Bishop Article IV. Standing Committee Article V. Executive Council Article VI. Synod and General Convention Article VII. Amendments
Article I. Diocese
The Diocese of Connecticut, coextensive with the boundaries of the State of Connecticut, as a constituent part of the body known as the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, accedes to, recognizes and adopts the Constitution of that Church, and acknowledges its authority accordingly.
Article II. Convention
Section 1. There shall be a Convention of the Diocese at least once a year at such place and time as established by the Executive Council of the Diocese.
Section 2. A Special Convention may be called by the Bishop Diocesan or by the Ecclesiastical Authority or by a two-thirds vote of the Standing Committee.
Section 3. A Convention To Elect a Bishop shall be called and conducted in accordance with the provisions of the canons of this Diocese concerning the Election of a Bishop.
Section 4. A) The Members of Convention are: the Bishop, Bishop Coadjutor, if there be one, Suffragan Bishop or Bishops, if any, the Chancellor of the Diocese, the Treasurer of the Diocese, the Secretary of the Diocese, the Secretary of Convention, the clerical members, and the lay members. The clerical members of the Convention shall be all clergy canonically resident in this Diocese and not under discipline.
B) Those clergy canonically resident in the Diocese who miss two successive Annual Conventions without being excused by the Ecclesiastical Authority shall lose their right to seat and vote in successive Annual Conventions until they obtain permission from the Ecclesiastical Authority or its delegate to return.
109 C) The lay members to any Convention shall be the delegates elected by the Cathedral Congregation, Parishes, as well as any Worshiping Community with the permission of the Bishops and the Standing Committee. Each shall elect, from the adult communicants in good standing of the same, two lay delegates to the Convention. In the case of a vacancy, the governing body of that community shall have the authority to appoint a replacement. Lay members of the Executive Council and of the Standing Committee and current elected lay Deputies and lay Alternate Deputies to General Convention shall be ex officio members of the Convention unless they be otherwise delegates from their respective Worshiping Communities. All duly elected lay members of Convention who are not serving on the Vestry or Council of Advice of their respective Parish or Worshiping Community, shall become, upon their election, ex officio members of the Vestry or Council of Advice with voice but without vote.
Section 5. The President of any Convention shall be the Bishop Diocesan, or in the case of that person's absence, the Bishop Coadjutor, if there is one, or the Bishops Suffragan by seniority of their consecration, if there be any. In the absence of the Bishops, the President of the Standing Committee shall serve as President of Convention.
Section 6. One-third of all the voting clerical members of the Convention and one-third of all lay delegates shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a smaller number may adjourn.
Section 7. The Bishops shall nominate a Secretary of the Diocese, a Secretary of Convention and a Treasurer who shall be elected by the Convention, to hold office until a successor has been elected at an Annual Convention. The Treasurer shall present a report to each Annual Convention. In case of a vacancy in the offices of the Secretaries or of the Treasurer, the Bishops shall have the power to fill such vacancy until the meeting of the next Annual Convention.
Section 8. The clerical and the lay members of a Convention shall sit and deliberate in one body; and every question, unless it be otherwise provided in this Constitution, shall be decided by a majority of the voting members present; provided, however, that in any case when it is requested by five members, the two orders shall vote separately, and a concurrence of the two orders shall determine the vote of the Convention.
Article III. Ecclesiastical Authority
Section 1.The Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese shall be the Bishop Diocesan. In the event of the death, disability, or absence of the Bishop Diocesan, the Bishop Coadjutor, if there be one, Bishops Suffragan in order of Consecration, if there be any.
110 In the absence of all the Bishops, the Standing Committee shall be the Ecclesiastical Authority.
Section 2. There shall be a Nomination Committee for the election of a Bishop, as established by the Annual Convention. The election of a Bishop shall be in the following manner: the two orders, each voting separately, shall vote for some fit and qualified person for the office of Bishop. A concurrent majority of both orders present and voting shall be necessary to elect a Bishop. If in either order less than three-fifths of all entitled to vote are present, two-thirds of the votes in that order shall be necessary to determine the election by that order.
Article IV. The Standing Committee
The Standing Committee shall serve as a council of advice to the Bishops and will be constituted according to the Canons.
Article V. Executive Council
The Executive Council shall be a representative body of clerical and lay members of the Diocese which may exercise the full power and authority of the Diocese between sessions of the Diocesan Convention except in such other matters as may be reserved by Constitution or Canon to the Diocesan Convention, to the Bishops, to the Standing Committee, or when any such action would be inconsistent with any action or directives of the Diocesan Convention. The Executive Council shall be constituted according to the Canons of this Diocese.
Article VI. Provincial Synod and General Convention
Deputies and Alternate Deputies from this Diocese to the General Convention and the Provincial Synod shall be elected at an Annual Convention in a manner that the Diocesan Convention may determine; the Deputies thus elected shall continue in office for three years.
Article VII. Amendments
Amendments to this Constitution must by adopted by two-thirds of the members present and voting at two successive Annual Conventions.
111 Canons of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
Canon I - The Organization And Conduct Of Parishes, And Of Their Members And Officers Canon II - Parochial Registers And Reports Canon III - Clerical Settlement And Removal Canon IV- Business Methods In Church Affairs Canon V- The Organization Of Worshiping Communities Canon VI - The Cathedral Canon VII - The Diocesan Executive Council Canon VIII - The Standing Committee Canon IX - The Chancellor Canon X - Deaneries And Networks Canon XI - The Roll Of The Convention Canon XII - Ecclesiastical Discipline Canon XIII - The Church Pension Fund Canon XIV - The Commission Of The Ministry Canon XV - Repealing Former Canons Canon XVI - Non-Discrimination Canon XVII - The Archives
CANON I -THE ORGANIZATION AND CONDUCT OF PARISHES, AND OF THEIR MEMBERS AND OFFICERS Section 1. A) Parishes may be constituted by the Bishop Diocesan, with the advice and consent of the Standing Committee on the written application of not less than ten baptized adult persons. If the application seeks to form a new Parish in any town or city wherein a Parish or Parishes already exist, the Bishop Diocesan shall notify the Rector and Vestry of each such Parish or Parishes of such application.
B) The site of any existing Church or Chapel shall not be changed by any Parish or Worshiping Community without the approval of the Bishop Diocesan, acting with the advice and consent of the Standing Committee. The Bishop Diocesan shall notify the Rector and Vestry of any other Parish or Parishes considered affected by the proposed change.
Section 2. When permission to form a new Parish has been granted, the Standing Committee shall transmit to the applicants with the certificate of permission (1) a form of
112 organizing the Parish, (2) a form of recording the action of the first meeting of such Parish, and (3) a form of application for admission into union with the Convention of the Diocese of Connecticut. The act of organization, executed in accordance with form (1), shall be entered in full upon the records of the Parish, and attested by the Clerk as the original act, or a true copy thereof, as the case may be. The three forms above named shall be in substance as follows:
A) We the subscribers, baptized persons in the state of Connecticut, do hereby unite to form and do hereby form ourselves and our successors into an Ecclesiastical Society under the Constitution and Laws of said state and under the Constitution and Canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Connecticut, for the purpose of supporting the Worship of Almighty God according to the Doctrine, Discipline and Liturgy of said Church in these United States, said Society to be known in law as [PARISH NAME] in [TOWN], in [COUNTY] and the State of Connecticut.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands this _____ day of ______A.D. 2___.
B) At a legal meeting of [PARISH NAME], in the [TOWN] held on the [DATE], [CLERK NAME] was duly elected and sworn in as the Parish Clerk; and [WARDEN NAMES] were elected Church Wardens, and [VESTRY NAMES]. as members of the Vestry of said Parish for the ensuing year.
At the same time it was resolved that this Parish apply to be admitted into union with the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Connecticut, and that [AGENT NAMES] be chosen Agents of the Parish to ask for such admission; and if the application be granted, then and there to represent this Parish in the said Convention as its delegates to Annual Convention.
C) To the Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Connecticut: The subscriber respectfully shows that said subscriber has been appointed Agent and Delegate for the purposes specified in the following extracts from the minutes of the [PARISH NAME], in [TOWN], to wit:
At the lawful meeting of [PARISH NAME], in [TOWN], State of Connecticut, held on [DATE], it was resolved that this Parish apply to be admitted into union with the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Connecticut, and that [NAMES] be chosen agents
113 of this Parish to ask for such admission; and if the application be granted, then and there to represent the Parish in the Annual Convention as its Delegates.
Extract from the minutes, Attest, [NAME], Parish Clerk.
And now in the pursuance of said agency, the subscriber submits to the Convention an attested copy of the act of organization of said Parish, taken from the record of their proceedings; and applies in the name and behalf of said [PARISH NAME], this in [TOWN NAME], that it be admitted into union with the Convention.
Dated at [CONVENTION LOCATION], on the [DATE].
Signed, [AGENT NAMES], Agents and Delegates.
Section 3. The Convention shall consider such application for admission into union with it at its next meeting or at such time as it deems appropriate.
Section 4. A) All persons who have received the Sacrament of Holy Baptism with water in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, whether in this Church or in another Christian Church, and whose Baptism has been duly recorded in this Church are members thereof. Members sixteen years of age and over are to be considered adult members. All members of this Church who have received Holy Communion in this Church at least three times during the preceding year are to be considered communicants of the Church.
B) It is expected that all adult members of this Church, after appropriate instructions, will have made a mature public affirmation of their faith and commitment to the responsibilities of their Baptism and will have been confirmed or received by a bishop of this Church or by a bishop of a Church in communion with this Church.
C) Any adult member of the Church, registered as such in any Parish, shall become an adult member of such Parish, provided that no person may be a member of more than one Parish or Worshiping Community in the Diocese at any time. The requirements of this shall be deemed to be met by any adult member by having been registered in the Parish register of said Parish, or by having been confirmed or received by a bishop in communion with this Church in the Parish, or by having been transferred to the Parish upon presentation of the certificate required by the Canons of the General Convention in the manner prescribed by these Diocesan Canons.
Section 5. Any person who has become and is a member of any Parish shall remain so until the relationship is terminated by death or by written notice of withdrawal.
114 Members of the Parish entitled to vote at any Parish meeting are those adult communicants who, for at least six months prior to that meeting have been faithful attendants at the services of the Church in the Parish, unless for good cause prevented, faithful contributors to its support, and faithful in working, praying, and giving for the spread of the Kingdom of God; these facts to be determined in each case by the Vestry in accordance with the provisions of these Canons.
Section 6. A)The officers of a Parish shall be a Rector, a Vestry composed of two Wardens and such number of other members of the Vestry as the Parish shall determine, a Clerk and a Treasurer, who may be members of the Vestry; and the Rector shall be Chair ex officio of the Vestry, and the Rector, or such other member designated by the Rector, shall preside at all meetings of the Vestry. No Parish shall elect to the office of Warden, nor for the first time to the Vestry, a member of the Parish who is not also a Communicant of the Church and age sixteen or over.
B) The members of the Vestry, the Clerk and the Treasurer must be communicants in good standing and shall be elected at the annual Parish meeting from the members of the Parish who are eligible to vote in accordance with these Canons. The Wardens must be communicants in good standing and shall be elected at the annual Parish meeting from members of the Parish so eligible to vote; Vestry terms shall be for three years or as defined by Parish bylaws. Any vacancy in the office of the Warden or on the Vestry during the course of the year may be filled at a special Parish meeting or the Vestry may appoint an individual to fulfill the unexpired term until the next annual meeting.
C) The term of any Warden, member of the Vestry or Parish officer except the Rector may be terminated at any time by vote of the annual Parish meeting or of any special Parish meeting called for the purpose, provided that notice of such proposed action is included in the call of such meeting and notice is given simultaneously to the person affected thereby, and that such person be given due opportunity to be heard at such a meeting. A vacancy occurring as a result of such action may be filled by election at the same or subsequent Parish meeting.
Section 7. A) The Parish Clerk shall be Clerk of the Vestry ex officio; shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of the Clerk's duties; shall make and preserve a full record of the proceedings of all Parish meetings and of the meetings of the Vestry; shall, under the supervision of the Vestry, keep an accurate roll of the members of the Parish and of those entitled to vote, and have such roll present at every Parish meeting; and shall be custodian of the files, records and archives of the Parish.
115 B) The Vestry of each Parish shall from time to time, and always within one month preceding the annual parish meeting, revise the roll of members of the Parish and of those entitled to vote at Parish meetings, in accordance with the provisions of these Canons, and such roll shall be presented by the Vestry to the annual Parish meeting, and when adopted by said meeting shall be the roll of that meeting.
Section 8. The property and all business affairs of the Parish shall be subject to the direction, management, and control of the Vestry; except that the disposition of the real estate of the Parish and the borrowing or lending of money shall not be within the control of the Vestry, unless granted by special vote of the Parish subject to Canon IV, Section 3.
Section 9. A) There shall be an annual meeting of the adult communicants in good standing entitled to vote of every Parish on a date set by the Vestry for the purpose of electing the Wardens, members of the Vestry, Clerk, Treasurer, and lay delegates to Annual Convention, and of transacting such other business as may legally come before such meeting. Special Parish meetings shall be called by vote of the Vestry, or upon the written request of 10% of the voting members of the Parish.
B) The notice of all Parish meetings shall be signed by the Clerk, or in the absence of the Clerk, by one of the Wardens, and shall be communicated by the Clerk to every member of the Parish, at least one week before the time of the meeting. The notice of all Parish meetings, except the annual meeting, shall contain a statement of the objects for which the meeting is called; and at all meetings the Rector of the Parish, if present, shall preside.
Section 10. Every Parish is responsible to live within a system of support and accountability that links its life and ministry with that of the Bishops and with those of other Parishes in the Diocese.
Section 11. A) The Bishops shall make available to the Parishes of our Diocese a system of support and accountability to encourage and enable the development of their life and ministry. Specific provisions shall be made to assist parishes not served by full-time clergy, or unable to meet financial obligations. Such assistance may be in the form of financial subsidy included in the Budget of Convention, pastoral intervention or regional co-operative ministry teams that will work with Parishes whose contributions to the Diocesan Convention’s Budget fall below 10% of the Parish’s total operating revenues. Such Parishes shall work with Diocesan leadership within a system of accountability and support in close relationship with the Bishops' Office with special emphasis on the development of their life and ministry.
116 B) If a Parish fails to contribute 10% of its total operating revenues to the Diocesan Convention’s Budget for two consecutive fiscal years, the Bishop may declare it an “aided parish” exercising full authority over its day-to-day administrative, financial and spiritual life. If a Parish’s or Worshiping Community’s annual draw from its endowment(s) exceeds ten percent (10%) of the net asset value of the endowment(s) for three consecutive fiscal years, beginning in Fiscal Year 2015, the Bishop may declare it an “aided parish,” exercising full authority over its day-to-day administrative, financial, and spiritual life.
C) Where, in the judgment of the Bishops, any such Parish shall fail to fulfill the obligations set forth in these Canons the Bishops may, upon the recommendation of the Executive Council, with the advice and consent of the Standing Committee terminate the existence of any such Parish after due notification of such intent at least six (6) months prior to such termination. Such notification shall also set forth the right of such Parish to appear before the Executive Council prior to termination.
Section 12. Any Parish desiring to terminate or to suspend its parochial organization, may do so by vote of two-thirds of the adult communicants in good standing entitled to vote present at a Parish meeting legally warned for that purpose, with the approval of and under such conditions as shall be required by the Bishop Diocesan and Standing Committee provided that such conditions shall include the valid transfer by the Parish to the Missionary Society of the Diocese of Connecticut of all right, title and interest of such Parish to all property, real and personal, theretofore owned or controlled by it, and the valid and effective succession of said Society to all fiduciary rights and obligations of such Parish.
Section 13. Two or more Parishes may merge into a single Parish with the approval of, and in such manner and under such conditions as shall be required by the Bishops and Standing Committee, and ratified by the Annual Convention. The resulting parish shall be a single ecclesiastical corporation possessing all of the rights, privileges, immunities, franchises and obligations of each of the merging Parishes, and all the rights and interests in property belonging to or due to each of the parishes so merged shall be vested in such resulting Parish without further act or deed.
Section 14. Parishes contributing at least 10% of total operating revenues to the Budget of Convention will be eligible to seek grants and loans from the resources of the Diocese. All Parishes receiving financial aid, grants, or loans shall make such financial and progress reports as may be required by the Executive Council or the Bishop.
CANON II - PAROCHIAL REGISTERS AND REPORTS
117 Section 1. Every Minister of this Church shall keep a register of all the baptisms, marriages and funerals solemnized by the said minister, specifying the names of the parties married, of those baptized, and of their sponsors, and of the persons buried, and the time when each rite was performed. If the Minister be in charge of a Parish, such minister shall make these entries in the Parish Register, and shall also enter therein the names of persons confirmed, and shall keep in the said Register a list of the Communicants and a list of the families belonging to the Parish; which Register, in case of the Minister's departure from the Parish, shall be deposited with one of the Wardens; and in such case, the Wardens shall cause all necessary entries to be made in the Register until clergy shall be again in charge of the Parish.
Section 2. The Parochial Report for the year ending December 31st shall be sent each year in duplicate to the Bishop Diocesan, or, if there be no Bishop Diocesan, to the Secretary of the Diocese, in the form prescribed by the Canons of the General Convention.
Section 3. All clergy, not serving in a Parish or Worshiping Community, shall report the occasional services performed; and if that minister has performed no such services, the causes or reasons which have prevented the same. As the Bishops direct, these reports may be given to Convention or entered in the Journal of Convention.
Section 4. At every visitation it shall be the duty of the Minister of the Parish or Worshiping Community, or of some other officer to submit the Parish Register to the visiting Bishop for inspection, and to give information on the state of the Congregation, spiritual and temporal, under such headings as shall have been previously signified to them in writing by the Bishop. The offering taken in any Parish or Worshiping Community at the time of any visitation shall be given to whatever recipient the Bishop shall designate.
Section 5. The rate and basis of financial assessments laid by the Convention upon the several Parishes and Worshiping Communities shall be voted on by the Annual Convention. The Executive Council is responsible to present an assessment proposal to the Annual Convention for all monies to be raised from Parishes and Worshiping Communities in the support of the Budget of Convention.
CANON III - CLERICAL SETTLEMENT AND REMOVAL Section 1. When the position of Rector becomes vacant, the Wardens or, in their absence, representatives of the Vestry shall promptly notify the Ecclesiastical Authority of this fact. The lay leadership of the Parish shall work with Diocesan leadership to arrange for interim ordained leadership for the Parish, to conduct a calling process pursuant to the policies of the Episcopal Church, provided that the Parish is
118 contributing at least 10% of its total operating revenue to the Budget of Convention, and to enter into a letter of agreement with the priest called as rector and the Ecclesiastical Authority. The Ecclesiastical Authority shall be provided no less than 30 days advance notice of the names of the proposed nominees for the position of rector, so that the Ecclesiastical Authority may communicate with the Parish regarding the nominees.
Section 2. When the position of Assistant becomes vacant, the Rector or, in the absence of the Rector, the interim ordained leadership or the Wardens shall promptly notify the Ecclesiastical Authority of that fact. The position of Assistant may be filled by the Rector with the advice and consent of the Vestry, provided that the Parish is contributing at least 10% of its total operating revenue to the Budget of Convention. The Ecclesiastical Authority shall be provided no less than 30 days advance notice of the name of the priest that the Rector proposed to hire as Assistant, so that the Ecclesiastical Authority may communicate with the Rector and the Vestry regarding the candidate. Parishes hiring an Assistant shall enter into a letter of agreement between the Rector, the Vestry and the Assistant, subject to the approval of the Ecclesiastical Authority.
Section 3. When the position of ordained leadership of a Worshiping Community becomes vacant, the Vice-Chair or other representative of the Council of Advice shall notify the Ecclesiastical Authority of that fact. The Ecclesiastical Authority shall appoint ordained leadership in accordance with Canon V.
Section 4. On the election of a Rector or the selection of an Assistant, in accordance with these Canons, the Vestry shall communicate, within five days thereafter, to the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese, notice of such election or selection signed by the persons certifying thereto in such of the following forms as shall be appropriate.
In the case of the election of a Rector the notice shall be in form as, follows:
We, the Church Wardens, do certify to the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese of Connecticut that [NAME] was, at a duly called Parish or Vestry meeting on [DATE], elected Rector of [PARISH NAME] to take charge thereof as of [DATE], in accordance with a letter of agreement dated [DATE]
In the case of the election of an Assistant Minister the notice shall be in form as follows:
We, the Rector and Church Wardens, do certify to the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese of Connecticut that [NAME] was at a meeting of
119 the Vestry held on [DATE] selected and approved as Assistant Minister of [PARISH NAME] effective as of [DATE] in accordance with a letter of agreement dated [DATE].
Section 5. No member of the Clergy shall become Rector or Assistant of any Parish within this Diocese, or shall change parochial cure within the Diocese, without having obtained the written permission of the Ecclesiastical Authority.
CANON IV - BUSINESS METHODS IN CHURCH AFFAIRS Section 1. The fiscal year shall begin January 1.
Section 2. In every Parish, Worshiping Community and institution connected with the Diocese through its Convention, the following standard business methods shall be observed:
A) Trust and permanent funds and all securities whatsoever kind shall be deposited in a Federal or State Bank or a Diocesan entity. Any parish desiring to deposit permanent funds and securities of any kind whatsoever with any other organization must receive the approval of the Bishops and Finance Committee by filing an application that meets the requirements of the Diocesan Investment Policy. If approved, substantive changes to the information in the approved application as defined in the Diocesan investment policy must also receive the approval of the Bishops and Finance Committee. Small funds and securities refused for deposit as being too small for acceptance shall not be subject to the foregoing deposit requirement. However, this does not in any way diminish the fiduciary responsibility of the Parish to manage these funds appropriately.
B) Records shall be made and kept of all trust and permanent funds showing at least the following:
i. Source and date. ii. Terms governing the use of principal and income. iii. To whom and how often reports of conditions are to be made. iv. How the funds are invested.
C) Books of account shall be so kept as to provide the basis for independent verification of satisfactory accounting.
D) All accounts shall be subject to independent verification by an independent Certified Public Accountant or independent Accountant, or by such an audit committee as shall be permitted by the Bishops under guidelines established by the Finance
120 Committee. All audit reports, any supplemental memorandum, and summaries of actions taken or to be taken to correct any deficiencies or to implement other recommendations shall be filed with the Bishops not later than 30 days following the date of such report, and in no event later than September 1 of each year, covering the financial reports of the previous calendar year.
E) All Parishes, Worshiping Communities and institutions connected with the Diocese through its Convention shall participate in a Diocesan Property/Casualty Insurance Program approved by the Diocesan Executive Council, which provides that all property (real and personal) shall be adequately insured including adequate public liability insurance and other coverages deemed necessary by Diocesan Executive Council; and that the premiums for said insurance program shall be paid by the Parish, Worshiping Community or other insured institution.
F) All full-time Clergy of Parishes and Worshiping Communities shall participate in a Diocesan Group Life, Medical, Dental Plan(s) approved by the Executive Council, which provides adequate coverage as deemed necessary by Executive Council; and that the minimum premiums, as set by Executive Council, for said insurance program shall be paid by the Parish or Worshiping Community; and that waiver of this participation may be approved by the Bishops with the advice of the Insurance Board.
G) Parish vestries should review, in the light of the rising cost of living, the salaries and allowances of clergy and lay workers annually prior to the Annual Parish Meeting, and in so doing should consider the fact that clergy are required to pay social security taxes in full while half is paid for lay employees.
Section 3. No Vestry, Trustee, or other body, authorized by Civil or Canon law to hold, manage or administer real property for any Parish, Worshiping Community, or institution, shall encumber or alienate the same or any part thereof (save for the refinancing of an existing loan), without the written consent of the Bishop Diocesan and Standing Committee of the Diocese, except under such regulations as may be prescribed by Canon of the Diocese, and except insofar as such requirement is inconsistent with provisions of the particular charter, trust, devise or deed of gift affecting ownership of such real property.
CANON V- THE ORGANIZATION AND CONDUCT OF WORSHIPING COMMUNITIES Section 1. The entities previously known as “Mission Stations” shall now be known as Worshiping Communities.
121 Section 2. A Worshiping Community may be established by the Bishop Diocesan on the application of parties professing a common interest. The form of application may be as follows:
To the Right Reverend ______, Bishop of Connecticut:
We, the subscribers, baptized persons over sixteen years of age, respectfully request that a Worshiping Community be established; and we hereby promise obedience of such Worshiping Community, if established, to the authority of the Bishop of Connecticut and conformity to the Constitution and Canons and to the doctrine, discipline and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America and the Diocese of Connecticut. We also hereby signify our intention to attend and to support this Worshiping Community.
The Bishop Diocesan shall consult with such Parishes or Worshiping Communities as may be affected by the formation of the new Worshiping Community.
Section 3. ) All Worshiping Communities shall be under the exclusive supervision, direction and control of the Bishops, who may, from time to time, make and issue such regulations for their establishment and administration as Bishops may deem appropriate. A Council of Advice shall be appointed by the Bishops upon nomination of ordained leadership, from among the communicant members of the Worshiping Community. The Bishops may appoint a lay Vice Chair, Treasurer and Clerk from the Worshiping Community's Council of Advice. Any baptized person sixteen years or older enrolled on the register of a Worshiping Community shall become a member of such Congregation for the purposes of voting at meetings of the Worshiping Community.
Section 4.) A Worshiping Community may apply to become a Parish in accordance with Canon I, Sections 1 and 2.
Section 5. The ordained leadership of a Worshiping Community shall be appointed by the Bishops and the Bishops shall have exclusive power to remove such leadership. It shall be the duty of every clergy person in charge of a Worshiping Community to make periodic reports as directed by the Bishops.
Section 6. All recommendations and actions of the Councils of Advice of Worshiping Community are subject to review by the Bishops before such recommendations and actions become final and effective. Every Worshiping Community shall have a parochial register, such register to be kept by the clergy or other person designated by the Bishops.
122 Section 7. The Title of all property, real or personal, given or purchased for the use of any Worshiping Communities shall be vested in the Missionary Society of the Diocese of Connecticut.
Section 8. A) The Bishops, after due notice, may terminate the existence of any Worshiping Community.
B) Every Worshiping Community is responsible to live within a system of support and accountability that links its life and ministry with that of the Bishops and with those of the other Parishes and Worshiping Communities in the Diocese.
C) The Bishops shall make available to the Worshiping Communities of the Diocese a system of support and accountability to encourage and enable the development of their life and ministry.
Section 9. A Parochial Mission may be established by a Parish, with the written approval of the Bishop Diocesan, and the advice and consent of the Standing Committee , Parochial Missions shall be the responsibility of the founding Parish and shall exist under its authority, direction and control. In any case in which a separate congregation is established by a Parish that congregation shall be considered as the establishment of a Parochial Mission as defined herein. The Bishop Diocesan, at the request of the founding Parish, may, with the advice and consent of the Standing Committee, terminate the existence of any Parochial Mission in said Parish, or constitute the same as a Worshiping Community.
CANON VI - THE CATHEDRAL Section 1. Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, being established by the Convention as the Cathedral Church of the Diocese of Connecticut, shall have the same rights, privileges, and obligations as a Parish in union with the Convention. In any case where the terms of any Canon cannot exactly be complied with, the Chapter shall determine the mode of compliance which shall always approximate as nearly as possible to that required by the Canon.
Section 2. At each annual meeting of the Diocesan Convention, Clerical and Lay Members of the Cathedral Chapter shall be chosen to serve in accordance with the Constitution of the Cathedral.
CANON VII - THE DIOCESAN EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Section 1. There shall be an Executive Council of the Diocese as established in the Constitution of this Diocese. The Executive Council shall be composed of:
123 A) The Bishop Diocesan who shall be president, the Bishop Coadjutor who shall be a vice-president, and the Suffragan Bishops, if there be any, who shall be vice presidents in order of their consecrations.
B) Two members, one clerical and one lay, elected by each Deanery or Network as the Council may establish.
C) The Treasurer of the Diocese, the Secretary of the Diocese and the Chancellor of the Diocese, ex officio.
D) Not more than six members at large, to be chosen annually by the Bishops with the concurrence of the Diocesan Executive Council. Any vacancy in this category may be filled for the unexpired balance of the term by the Bishops with the concurrence of the Diocesan Executive Council.
E) Staff members invited by the Bishops to attend Executive Council meetings shall have voice but not vote.
Section 2. A) The Executive Council shall coordinate and periodically evaluate the work and composition of the Deaneries and Networks, shall have power to expend and allocate funds within the limits of the Budget of Convention, may initiate and establish Diocesan programs and administrative policies and, in general, may exercise the full power and authority of the Diocese between sessions of the Annual Convention except in relation to amendments to the Constitution and Canons, the adoption of the Budget of Convention, the admission of new parishes, or such other matters as may be reserved by Constitution or Canon to the Annual Convention, or the Bishops, or the Standing Committee, or when any such action would be inconsistent with any action or directives of the Annual Convention.
B) The Executive Council shall have and may exercise the full power and authority of the Diocese and of the Convention of the Diocese to direct the disposal of the income of the funds known as the "Fund for Aged and Infirm Clergy and Widows and Orphans of Clergymen of the Diocese of Connecticut" and the "Clergymen's Retiring Fund of the Diocese of Connecticut;" whether such power and authority exist by virtue of an agreement relating to said funds entered into on January 12, 1923, or by virtue of any law or custom; and the Executive Council is constituted the agent of the Diocese and of the Convention for the purpose of exercising such power and authority in such manner and to such extent as the Executive Council may consider proper, notwithstanding the provisions of any other Canon of the Diocese relating to Assessments levied by the Church Pension Fund.
124 Section 3. The Executive Council shall have the power to adopt such bylaws, rules, and regulations as may be necessary for its own government, subject to the provisions of the Constitution and Canons of the Diocese of Connecticut. The Council shall hold stated meetings, and shall make and preserve a full record of all its acts. Special meetings of the Council may be held upon call of the President and shall be called by the President upon the written request of any five members thereof upon five days' written notice, which shall state the purpose of such meeting, except that during the sessions of the Annual Convention a special meeting may be called at any time by the President and shall be called upon the written request of any five members. The quorum for special meetings of the Executive Council held during the Convention shall be a majority of the members of Executive Council.
Section 4. The Executive Council shall constitute a Finance Committee and may constitute from time to time such committees as it deems advisable, and may appoint persons not members of the Council to serve on such committees, or to perform such other services as may be required. There shall be at least one member of Executive Council on any committee.
Section 5. The Executive Council shall submit to each Annual Convention a report of the work since the previous Annual Convention. The report shall also contain an itemized statement for the preceding calendar year of all receipts and disbursements a statement of all trust funds, of property in its possession or under its control, and a detailed statement of the salaries, if any, paid to each of its officers. This report shall be made available to all members before the Annual Convention.
Section 6. The Executive Council shall submit, to the Annual Convention for its consideration and action, a Budget of Convention representing all the work of the Diocese for the ensuing calendar year. This budget shall be made available to all members before the Annual Convention.
Section 7. An Assistant Treasurer may be elected in the same manner as the Treasurer.
Section 8. The Executive Council may from time to time appoint such personnel as they may deem necessary within the limits of the Budget of Convention. The Executive Council shall establish human resources standards and procedures for personnel employed by the Diocese.
CANON VIII - THE STANDING COMMITTEE Section 1. The Standing Committee of the Diocese shall consist of five clerical members of the Convention and five lay members who are communicants of the
125 Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Connecticut and each member of the Committee shall continue in office until a successor has been elected. One clerical member and one lay member of the Standing Committee shall be elected each year for the term of five years. No member of the Standing Committee shall be eligible for reelection to said Committee until the expiration of one year following the completion that member's five year term of office.
Section 2. The Standing Committee shall choose from its own number a President and a Secretary. Any six members of the Committee shall be a quorum. In case of a vacancy in the Standing Committee, the remaining members shall have power to fill such vacancy until the next annual Convention, at which time the Convention shall elect a member to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term.
Section 3. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Standing Committee to keep a record of its proceedings, and to provide a report of its proceedings to the Secretary of Convention for distribution to the members of Annual Convention at least six (6) weeks before the Convention. The report shall specify the time and place of each meeting of the Committee during the year; the number present; the names of persons recommended to the Bishop to be admitted Candidates for Holy Orders, or to be ordained Deacon or Priests; and the substance of all other matters which shall have been brought before them; and such report shall be included in the Journal of Convention.
CANON IX - THE CHANCELLOR The Chancellor of the Diocese shall be admitted to the practice of law in the State of Connecticut and a Communicant of this Church, shall be elected by the Convention upon nomination by the Bishop Diocesan, and shall hold office until a successor shall be elected. The Chancellor shall be the legal advisor to the Bishop Diocesan. In case of a vacancy in the office of the Chancellor the Bishop shall have power to fill such vacancy until the meeting of the next Annual Convention.
There may be a Vice-Chancellor of the Diocese who shall possess the same qualifications as the Chancellor, and shall be elected in the same manner as prescribed for the Chancellor, who shall perform such duties as may be requested by the Bishop Diocesan or Chancellor.
CANON X - DEANERIES AND NETWORKS Section 1. A) The Diocese may be divided into such Deaneries or Networks as shall be determined by the Executive Council as they may deem to be best, considering the interests and needs of the Parishes, Worshiping Communities and of the Diocese.
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C) Deaneries and Networks shall foster collaboration among the member Parishes and Worshiping Communities.
D) The Deaneries and Networks shall file such reports as the Executive Council may require.
CANON XI - CONVENTION PROCEDURE Section 1. The Clerks of the Cathedral Congregation, Parishes and Worshiping Communities in the Diocese shall promptly notify the Secretary of the Diocese of the election of lay delegates and alternate delegates to Convention. The Secretary of the Diocese shall prepare the rolls of the clerical and lay members of Convention. The rolls shall be certified by the Standing Committee before each Convention.
Section 2. All reports to Convention shall be distributed to the members in advance of the Convention and those reports not requiring action be presented to the Convention by title.
Section 3. To bring a resolution before the Convention, the resolution must be proposed by five (5) members of Convention and submitted, in writing, along with explanatory comments of not more than 100 words to the Secretary of Convention at least six (6) weeks before the opening of the Convention. The Secretary shall distribute to all members of Convention a copy of the resolution and explanatory comments before the Convention. Resolutions not presented in this manner shall be considered only at the discretion of the Convention.
Section 4. A) Elections for the Standing Committee, Deputies to General Convention, and Deputy to the Provincial Synod shall be conducted by ballot at the Annual Convention.
B) Nominations of candidates for election to the Standing Committee, Deputies to General Convention, and Deputy to the Provincial Synod shall be made in writing, signed by at least ten members of the next Annual Convention, and submitted to the Secretary of Convention no fewer than six (6) weeks before Convention.
C) If the Secretary of Convention has not received nominations equal to the number of open positions on the Standing Committee, Deputies to General Convention and Deputy to the Provincial Synod by six (6) weeks before Convention, then the Standing Committee shall make such nominations as are necessary to equal the number to be elected to each position.
127 D) The Secretary of Convention shall provide each person nominated for Standing Committee, Deputies to General Convention, and Deputy to the Provincial Synod the opportunity to provide to the Secretary appropriate biographical information and a statement by the nominee addressing such issues confronting the Church as the nominee deems appropriate. The Secretary of Convention shall distribute the foregoing information to the members before Convention.
E) The Secretary of Convention shall provide a method by which the members may cast their ballots without revealing their votes.
F) In each election conducted by ballot, the members of Convention shall rank the nominees in order of preference shown on the ballot. The nominees receiving the greatest number of first preference votes are elected to the number of positions open. With respect to the election of Deputies to General Convention, the first four ordained persons elected and the first four lay persons elected shall serve as Deputies. The next four ordained persons elected and the next four lay persons elected shall serve as Alternate Deputies to General Convention.
CANON XII – ECCLESIASTICAL DISCIPLINE Section 1. A) Relation To Canons of General Convention. This Canon adopts policies, procedures and structures to implement in The Diocese of Connecticut (the “Diocese”) provisions for discipline set forth in Title IV of the Canons of General Convention (“Church Canons”) for priests and deacons who, by their vows at ordination, have accepted both responsibility under and accountability for the doctrine, discipline and worship of The Episcopal Church (the “Church”). In the event any provision of this Canon is in conflict with or inconsistent with Title IV of the Church Canons, the provisions of Title IV shall prevail.
B) Definitions. The capitalized terms herein shall have the meanings attributed to them in Canon IV.2 of the Church Canons unless otherwise defined herein. All references herein to the Bishop shall mean the Bishop Diocesan, or a Bishop Suffragan if specific jurisdiction for matters contemplated by Title IV of the Church Canons has been assigned to that Bishop Suffragan.
Section 2. A) Disciplinary Board. A court to be known as the Disciplinary Board (“Board”) is hereby created for the Diocese of Connecticut, with a membership as set forth below.
i. The Board shall consist of nine (9) members, five (5) of whom are members of the Clergy and four (4) of whom are Laity.
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ii. The Clergy members of the Board shall be priests or deacons who are geographically resident within the Diocese and who have been canonically resident within the Diocese for at least 3 years.
iii. The lay members of the Board shall be adult Communicants in Good Standing and voting members of a Parish or Mission in the Diocese.
iv. Employees of the Diocese, current members of the Standing Committee, those individuals specified in the first sentence of Canon IV.5.3(c) of the Church Canons and any persons affiliated in the practice of law or otherwise with any of those individuals are ineligible to serve as a member of the Board. Persons who will be eligible to serve on the Board on the date on which their term would commence, may be nominated for and may be elected to the Board even if they would not be eligible to serve on the Board at the time of their nomination or election.
v. Members of the Board may be removed by the Bishop, with the advice and consent of the Standing Committee, whenever in the judgment of the Bishop the best interests of the Diocese would be served thereby.
vi. The members of the Board shall be nominated by the Bishop and elected by the Convention. Each member shall be elected for a three (3)-year term; except, if a member is elected to fill a vacancy, the term of such member shall be the unexpired term of the member being replaced. The term of the member shall commence on the first (1st) day of the year following election. The terms of office of the Board shall be staggered and arranged into three classes. Members of the Board may serve no more than three (3) consecutive, full three- year terms but may be nominated for election to the Board in the second year after the end of that person’s third consecutive term.
vii. Vacancies on the Board shall be filled as follows:
a. Upon the determination that a vacancy exists, the President of the Board shall notify the Bishop of the vacancy and request appointment of a replacement member of the same order as the member to be replaced.
b. The Bishop shall appoint a replacement Board member in consultation with the Standing Committee from the same order as the former member.
129 c. Persons appointed to fill vacancies on the Board shall meet the same eligibility requirements as apply to elected Board members.
d. With respect to a vacancy created by any reason other than pursuant to a challenge as provided below, the term of any person selected as a replacement Board member shall be until the next annual Convention. With respect to a vacancy resulting from a challenge, the replacement Board member shall serve only for the proceedings for which the elected Board member is not serving as a result of the challenge.
viii. The term of office of any member of a Hearing Panel whose original term expires after a matter has been referred to that Panel shall be extended until forty (40) days after the entry of an Order by that Panel.
B) Preserving Impartiality. In any proceeding under this Title, if any member of a Conference Panel or Hearing Panel of the Board shall become aware of a personal conflict of interest or undue bias, that member shall immediately notify the President of the Board and request a replacement member of the Panel. Respondent’s Counsel and the Church Attorney shall have the right to challenge any member of a Panel for conflict of interest or undue bias by motion to the Panel for disqualification of the challenged member. The members of the Panel not the subjects of the challenge shall promptly consider the motion and determine whether the challenged Panel member shall be disqualified from participating in that proceeding. If the member is excused, the President shall appoint another member of the Board from the same order as the excused member to the panel to fill the vacancy created by the challenge, in a manner consistent with Canon IV.6.7 of the Church Canons.
C) President. Within sixty (60) days following the annual Convention, the sitting President of the Board shall convene those individuals who will constitute the Board as of January 1, and those individuals shall elect a President from among their members to serve a one-year term commencing on the first (1st) day of the year following the election. If, at the relevant time, there is no sitting President, the Intake Officer shall convene the meeting.
D) Intake Officer. The Intake Officer shall be appointed from time to time by the Bishop. The Bishop may appoint one or more Intake Officers according to the needs of the Diocese. All information concerning an alleged Offense shall be reported to an Intake Officer. The Bishop shall publish the name(s) and contact information of the Intake Officer(s) throughout the Diocese.
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E) Investigator. The Bishop shall appoint an Investigator in consultation with the Standing Committee. The Investigator may but need not be a Member of the Church. The Bishop may terminate the term of the Investigator with the advice and consent of the Standing Committee. The Diocese may compensate an Investigator for services rendered at the rate described in a written retainer agreement. Whether or not an Investigator is compensated, the Diocese shall reimburse an Investigator for reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in a proceeding under this Canon.
F) Church Attorney. Within sixty (60) days following each annual Convention, the Bishop in consultation with the Standing Committee shall appoint an attorney to serve as Church Attorney for a one-year term commencing on the first (1st) day of the year following the election. The person so selected must be a duly licensed attorney, but need not reside within the Diocese. If the Church Attorney is unable to serve in connection with a particular matter, the Bishop, in consultation with the Board, shall appoint a temporary Church Attorney to serve on that matter. The Bishop may remove any Church Attorney with the advice and consent of the Standing Committee at any time for any cause deemed sufficient by them, in their sole discretion. In the event that the Church Attorney resigns or the position otherwise becomes vacant, the Bishop shall appoint a successor Church Attorney in consultation with the Standing Committee. The Diocese may compensate a Church Attorney for services rendered at a rate described in a written retainer agreement and, whether or not the Church Attorney is compensated, shall reimburse the Church Attorney for reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in a proceeding under this Canon. The term of office of the Church Attorney whose original term expires while a matter is pending before him or her shall, at the discretion of the Bishop, be extended until forty (40) days after the entry of an Order, unless earlier removed.
G) Pastoral Response Coordinator. The Bishop may appoint a Pastoral Response Coordinator, to serve at the will of the Bishop in coordinating the delivery of appropriate pastoral responses provided for in Title IV.8 of the Church Canons and this Title. The Pastoral Response Coordinator may be the Intake Officer, but shall not be a person serving in any other appointed or elected capacity under this Title.
H) Advisors. In each proceeding under Title IV, the Bishop shall appoint an Advisor for the Complainant and an Advisor for the Respondent. Persons serving as Advisors shall hold no other appointed or elected position provided for under this Title, and shall not include chancellors or vice chancellors of this Diocese or any person likely to be called as a witness in the proceeding.
131 I) Clerk. The Board shall appoint a Board Clerk to assist the Board with records management and administrative support. The Clerk may be a member of the Board.
J) Formation of Conference Panels and Hearing Panels.
i. The President of the Board shall form a Conference Panel and a Hearing Panel in each proceeding under Title IV from members of the Board in accordance with the requirements of Canon IV.6.7 of the Church Canons provided, however, that each Hearing Panel shall include at least two members of the clergy.
ii. The President of the Board shall exercise discretion to determine the number of members of the Conference Panel for each matter, provided, however, that the Conference Panel will be comprised of a maximum of three (3) members of the Board. Each Conference Panel shall consist of at least one member of the clergy.
K) Accord. No less than thirty (30) days prior to the issuance of an Accord, the initiating body or party shall notify the Bishop of the intent to issue an Accord and shall confer with the Bishop concerning the proposed terms of the Accord.
L) Order. The opportunity of the Bishop and Complainant to be heard on the proposed terms of an Order by a Conference or a Hearing Panel in accordance with Canon IV.14.7 of the Church Canons shall occur no less than thirty (30) days prior to the issuance of the Order.
M) Agreements. In accordance with Canon IV.5.3(i) of Church Canons, the Diocese may enter into agreements with one or more other Dioceses of the Episcopal Church for the sharing of resources in connection with discipline under Title IV and this Canon.
N) Counsel. The Board may engage counsel for itself or for any Panel for which it deems counsel would be appropriate. Counsel may also serve as Clerk of the Panel. A member of the Board may not act as such counsel.
O) Proceedings. Any proceedings of a Panel established by Title IV may be conducted by telephone conference or similar communications technologies by means of which all persons participating can hear and be heard by all other participants. Participation in proceedings conducted in this manner shall constitute presence in person in the proceeding.
132 Section 3. A) Expenses Generally. Unless expressly provided otherwise in this Canon IX, all costs, expenses and fees incurred under Title IV of Church Canons and this Canon IX shall be the obligation of the person incurring them.
B) Costs Incurred by the Church. The reasonable costs and expenses of the Board, the Intake Officer, the Investigator, the Church Attorney, the Clerk and the Pastoral Response Coordinator shall be the obligation of the Diocese, subject to budgetary constraints as may be established by Diocesan Executive Council.
C) Other Fees and Expenses. In the sole discretion of the Bishop and with the consent of the Standing Committee, the Bishop may recommend to the Executive Council the payment by the Diocese of certain reasonable fees and expenses incurred by a Respondent. Except for the provisions of Canon IV.19.23(b) of the Church Canons, this Canon shall provide the exclusive procedure and method for reimbursement or payment of costs, expenses and fees incurred in a proceeding under Title IV of the Church Canons and this Canon.
Section 4. A) Records of active proceedings before the Board, including the period of any pending appeal, shall be preserved and maintained in the custody of the Clerk, if there be one, otherwise by the Intake Officer.
B) Permanent Records. The Bishop shall make provision for the permanent storage of records of all proceedings under this Title at the Archives of the Diocese and the Archives of the Episcopal Church, as prescribed in Title IV of the Church Canons.
CANON XIII - THE CHURCH PENSION FUND Section 1. It shall be the duty of this Diocese and of each Parish or Worshiping Community, and other ecclesiastical organization to inform the Church Pension Fund of current or past salaries and other compensation of clergy associated therewith or resident therein, and of changes in such salaries and other compensations as they occur and to pay promptly to the Church Pension Fund the pension assessments required under the Canons of General Convention and in accordance with the Rules of said Fund.
Section 2. It shall be the duty of every cleric canonically resident or serving in this Diocese to inform the Church Pension Fund promptly of such facts as the Trustees thereof may deem necessary for its proper administration, and to cooperate with said Fund in such other ways as may be appropriate to assist the Fund in discharge of its canonical obligations.
Section 3. It shall be the duty and obligation of this Diocese and of each Parish and Worshiping Community, and other ecclesiastical organizations or bodies subject to
133 the authority of the Diocese of Connecticut which under the regulations of the Church Pension Fund have elected or shall elect to come into the pension system, to provide all lay employees who are regularly scheduled to work a minimum of 1,000 hours or more annually retirement benefits through participation in the Episcopal Church Lay Employees Retirement Plan (ECLERP) of the Church Pension Fund or in an equivalent plan, the provisions of which are least equal to those of ECLERP. At its commencement, if the plan is a defined benefit plan, the employer contribution shall be not less than 9% of the employee's salary; if the plan is a defined contribution plan, the employer shall contribute not less than 5% and agree to "match" employee contributions of up to another 4%.
CANON XIV – THE COMMISSION ON MINISTRY Section 1. The Bishop Diocesan shall nominate to the Annual Convention fourteen persons, clerical and lay, of whom not more than eight shall be from the same order. One of the nominees shall be a member of the Standing Committee. All members of the Commission shall be clergy canonically resident or lay communicants of this Diocese. Upon confirmation by the vote of the Annual Convention the nominees shall constitute the Commission on the Ministry.
Section 2. The members of the Commission shall serve for terms of one year and may be renominated and confirmed annually provided that no member shall serve more than six terms in succession.
Section 3. The Bishop Diocesan shall be ex officio a member of the Commission. The Bishop Coadjutor or Bishop or Bishops Suffragan, if there be such, may be appointed by the Bishop Diocesan as additional members.
Section 4. Vacancies in the Commission membership occurring between Annual Conventions shall be filled by appointment by the Bishop with the advice and consent of the Standing Committee.
Section 5. The duties of the Commission shall be those set forth in the Canons of the General Convention and such other duties as the Bishops may appropriately assign.
Section 6. The Commission on Ministry shall have the power to adopt rules for its work subject to the approval of the Bishops provided the same are not inconsistent with the Canons of the General Convention and the Canons of this Diocese. Subject to the approval of the Bishops the Commission on the Ministry shall have authority to appoint such committees from and beyond its membership as it may find necessary to act on its behalf; provided, however, that ultimate responsibility shall remain with the Commission as a whole to report to the Bishops concerning an applicant's fitness for admission as a
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CANON XV - AMENDMENTS TO THESE CANONS Section 1. Former Canons of the Diocese inconsistent with or not contained within these Canon are hereby repealed. All resolutions of the Annual Convention that are inconsistent with the provisions of these Canons are hereby repealed. These Canons may be amended by a majority vote of the Annual Convention.
Section 2. The Secretary shall make such changes in the numbering of Canons or Sections, or in references to Canons or Sections, as may be required at any time by resolutions or amendments to the Canons adopted by the Convention.
Section 3. Proposed amendments to the Constitution and Canons shall be submitted in writing to the Bishop and the President of the Standing Committee at least six (6) weeks before the opening of the Convention at which the amendments are to be proposed for adoption. A copy of the proposed amendment shall be distributed to the members before the Convention. The foregoing shall not apply to amendments proposed by any committee on Constitution and Canons appointed by Convention.
CANON XVI - NON-DISCRIMINATION The Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Connecticut shall not discriminate in its hiring practices, terms, or conditions of employment because of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, marital status, or physical disability.
CANON XVII - OF THE ARCHIVES Section 1. The Bishops shall appoint individuals to maintain the Archives of the Diocese of Connecticut in accordance with these Canons and the General Church Canons.
Section 2. There may be an historian for each Parish in the Diocese appointed by the Rector and approved by the Vestry.
ATTESTATION I certify that the foregoing is a true and accurate copy of the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut as amended and restated to ______.
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