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VOL. 55, NO. 17 The WITNESS I SEPTEMBER, 1970 FOR CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH EdUoriai and Publication Offiee, Eaton Rood, Tunkkanmoek, Pa. 18667 Story of the Week sees even the missions a respon- Convention will Get Proposals sibility delegated to provinces. Whether an archbishop would publication. That Headquarters be Moved also be the head of a diocese and within his province would be a * Reduction of the provinces Washington, D. C, where the question for each province to reuse of the Episcopal Church from Presiding Bishop has an official decide according to its own need. for nine to six and heading each by seat in the cathedral, and to A province that might include an archbishop are proposed by- Florida. the urban centers of New York, Rhode Island as a means of de- Newark, Philadelphia and Wash- required Such moves would trade the centralizing activities. ington "might need an arch- image of the church "as deeply bishop with no other commit- An editorial in the diocesan involved with the financial world ments." monthly calls, as did the annual of New York for the image of Permission The magazine sees provincial convention last May, for sale of the church as deeply involved with the political world of synods meeting annually or the national headquarters at 815 more often as need arises, with- DFMS. Washington," or Florida would / Second Ave., in New York and link it "in the public mind with out undue expense or undue dis- greater autonomy for the prov- ruption of the life schedule of inces. recreation, resorts, and retire- Church ment. participants. The editorial notes that many "Already the church is too It sees many matters affect- dioceses, in addition to Rhode ing the whole church being set- Island "have urged serious con- often considered the part-time Episcopal tled "by fairly frequent meet- sideration of decentralization. hobby of its membership, rather the ings of the House of Archbish- The cry is heard over and over: than as the vital, central concern of of all life.'- ops, or the semi- occasional ses- 'sell 815 — get out of New sions of the House of Bishops." York'." The present provinces have little to do because the work of It would convert the General Archives Written by the Rev. Edwin K. the church and decisions regard- Packard, editor, the editorial Convention into a small body ing it are main functions of the consisting of the House of Arch- 2020. says that "most of the work of Executive Council and other bishops, House of Bishops, and the national headquarters and of agencies of General Convention. the Executive Council can be clerical and lay deputies elected by the provinces rather than by Copyright better and more effectively done The R. I. proposal would have on a provincial basis." The paper each province largely autono- more than 90 dioceses as at sees the question of a new or- mous "with effective jurisdic- present. ganizational structure for the tion and authority, both for its It would have the General church as a top item at the Gen- archbishop and for its legisla- Convention meet perhaps every eral Convention in Houston, Oct. tive synod." five years with the bishops and 11-22. It does not suggest an al- archbishops meeting together It would leave only matters frequently during the interim. ternative location for national which cannot be handled on the headquarters and it would make provincial level to the Presiding In calling for decentralization the senior archbishop in point Bishop and a small national and sale of the New York head- of consecration the presiding staff.