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Journal of the 229Th Convention The Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut 2013 Annual Convention th 9 Journal of the 22 the of Journal Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut 1335 Asylum Avenue Hartford, CT 06105 860-233-4481 (main) 860-523-1410 (fax) Table of Contents People, Committees, & Communities Officers of our Diocese, Committees, Commissions 2 Deaneries 4 Diocesan Staff 6 Parishes & Mission Stations 7 Summer Chapels 14 Chapels of Institutions 14 Educational & Charitable Institutions 15 Clergy in the Order of Canonical Residence 16 Lay Delegates Attending Convention 27 Minutes of the 229th Annual Convention Friday 32 Saturday 36 Supporting Documents Resolutions 42 Reports to Convention 44 Bishop’s Address 81 Episcopal Acts 87 Budget 89 Parochial Membership Statistics 103 Parochial Financial Statistics 109 1 Bishop The Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas, B.A., M.A., M.Div., Ph.D. Office: 1335 Asylum Ave., Hartford, 06105 Residence: 1 Collins Ln., Essex, 06426 Bishops Suffragan The Rt. Rev. James E. Curry, B.A., M.Div. Office: 1335 Asylum Ave., Hartford, 06105 Residence: 14 Linwold Dr., West Hartford 06107 The Rt. Rev. Laura J. Ahrens, B.A., M.Div., D.Min. Office: 1335 Asylum Ave. Hartford, 06105 Residence: 47 Craigmoor Rd., West Hartford, 06107 Standing Committee Clerical Lay The Rev. Joseph Pace – 2014 Mr. Thom Peters (Chair) – 2014 The Rev. Greg Welin – 2015 Ms. Nancy Noyes – 2015 The Rev. Richard Maxwell – 2016 Mr. Joseph Carroll, Jr. – 2016 The Rev. Alex Dyer – 2017 Mr. Bates Lyons – 2017 The Rev. Sandra Cosman – 2018 Mr. Edward Seibert – 2018 General Convention Salt Lake City, Utah 2015 Clerical Deputies Lay Deputies The Rev. Molly James Mr. Lynn Brooks The Rev. Linda Spiers (Chair) Ms. Rachel Downs The Rev. Matthew Calkins Ms. Marie Alford-Harkey The Rev. Ellen Tillotson Mr. Albert Mollegan Clerical Alternates Lay Alternates The Rev. Paul Carling Mr. Thom Peters The Rev. Alex Dyer Ms. Liza Anderson 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 The Rev. Molly James (2010) Secretary of the Convention The Rev. Adam Yates (2012) Treasurer Mr. Lynn Brooks Chancellor 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. James E. Curry The Rev. Peter Walsh The Rt. Rev. Laura J. Ahrens The Rev. Doug Engwall Bradford S. Babbitt Esq., Chancellor Ms. Valzie Peterkin The Rev. Molly James, Sec. of the Diocese Mr. Lynn Brooks, Treasurer From the Deaneries Deanery Clergy Laity Bridgeport The Rev. Judith Rhodes Mr. Fred Jackson Central CT The Rev. Jose Martinez 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 The Rev. Tracy Johnson Mr. William Hart Russell North Central The Rev. Linda Spiers Ms. Karen Williams Seabury The Rev. Ron Kolanowski Ms. Shirley Wick Stamford The Rev. Ted Pardoe Ms. Terry Birdsong 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 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’ 4 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 E. 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, Grace Church Wilton, St. Matthew’s Norwalk, St. Paul’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’ 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 5 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 Staff of the Diocese of Connecticut The Rt. Rev. Laura Ahrens, Bishop Suffragan Ms. Alison Hollo, Administrator for the Bishop’s Office The Rt. Rev. James Curry, Bishop Suffragan The Rev. Timothy Hodapp, Canon for Mission Leadership The Rt. Rev. Ian Douglas, Bishop Diocesan Ms. Karolyn Dunn, Accountant Ms. Melissa Hass, Accounting Specialist Ms. Karin Hamilton, Canon for Communication & Media Ms. Robin Hammeal-Urban, Canon for Mission Integrity & Training The Rev. Molly James, Secretary of the Diocese Ms. Debbie Kenney, Administrator for Safe Church & Ordination Process Ms. Shirley McGarry, Senior Accounting Specialist Ms. Bonni McKenney, Administrator for Diocesan Events & Diocesan House Support Ms. Kori Pacyniak, Communications Specialist The Rev. Audrey Scanlan, Canon for Mission Collaboration & Congregational Life Ms. Jody Rodiger, Administrator for the Office of the Episcopate & Mission Collaboration Ms. Margaret Smith, Archivist Ms. Linda Walley, Administrator for Transitions & Clergy Support Ms. Cindy Winslow, Canon for Mission Finance & Operations (Controller) 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 6 Parishes & Mission Stations Ansonia, 06401 – Christ Bridgeport, 06608 – St. Luke’s and St. 56 South Cliff St./PO Box 131 Paul’s 203.734.2715 594 Kossuth St./PO Box 2156 203.334-8674 Bantam, 06750 – St. Paul’s Main St./PO Box 449 Bridgewater, 06752 – St. Mark’s 860.567.8838 Main St/PO Box 143 860.354.8269 Bethany, 06525 – Christ 526 Amity Rd Bristol, 06010 – St. John’s 203.393.3399 851 Stafford Ave 864.583.5445 Bethel, 06801 – St. Thomas’ 95 Greenwood Ave Broad Brook, 06016 – Grace 203.743.1494 44 Old Ellington Rd/PO Box 405 860.582.3159 Bethlehem, 06751 – Christ Main St./PO Box 130 Brookfield, 06804 – St. Paul’s 203.266.7698 174 Whisconier Rd 203.775.9587 Bloomfield, 06002 – Old St. Andrew’s 59 Tariffville Rd Brooklyn, 06234 – Trinity 860.242.4660 7 Providence Rd/PO Box 276 860.774.9352 Bloomfield, 06002 – St. Stephen’s 590 Bloomfield Ave Cheshire, 064106 – St. Peter’s 860.242.1152 59 Main St 203.272.4041 Bolton, 06043 – St. George’s 1150 Boston Tpk/PO Box 9158 Clinton, 06413 – Holy Advent 860.643.9203 83 East Main St/PO Box 536 860.669.2232 Branford, 06405 – Trinity 1109 Main St Collinsville, 06022 – Trinity 203.488.2681 55 River Rd/PO Box 374 203.693.8172 Bridgeport, 06604 – Calvary St.
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