Diocesan Journals - Canonical Deposit
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Diocesan Journals - Canonical Deposit
Dioceses of The Episcopal Church
Roanridge Training and Conference Center. Records
Part of Episcopal Agencies and Organizations of the General Convention or DFMS
The collection comprises correspondence, minutes, surveys, reports, financial records, printed materials, photographic materials, audio-visual materials, maps, and charts dating from 1939 to 1978. The photographic materials include two cubic feet of prints and negatives and more than two thousand slides, which often topically parallel other records found in the collection.
Roanridge Foundation, Inc.
United Thank Offering. Records
Part of Episcopal Agencies and Organizations of the General Convention or DFMS
The Records of the United Thank Offering Office (UTO) comprise materials from two successive UTO Coordinators, Aileen S. Rucker and Alice P. Emery. Included are general correspondence, detailed files on grants, materials from the UTO Planning Committee, and general mailings.
United Thank Offering
Triennial Meetings of the Women of the Episcopal Church. Records
Part of Episcopal Agencies and Organizations of the General Convention or DFMS
This collection comprises records from the six Triennial Meetings that took place between the dissolution of the General Division of Women’s Work in 1968 and the establishment of the Episcopal Church Women in 1985. Included are minutes, committee reports, correspondence, delegate lists, financial reports, election records, and related mailings and printed materials. The bulk of the materials are from the 1979 and 1982 meetings.
Episcopal Church Women
General Convention. Interim Body Records
These official bodies of General Convention are established and defined in Canon I.1.2(n), Canon I.5.1, Canon I.8.1, and Canon III.15.1, and meet throughout the triennium to facilitate the programmatic mission of the General Convention. Records in this series include minutes, correspondence, memos, reports, and administrative files.
General Convention Interim Bodies
American Church Institute. Administrative Records
The DFMS archive on the American Church Institute (ACI) is largely focused on the years 1906 through 1967, although documentation on individual schools dates from 1867 (see AO-00-R0061-02-12). The collection represents a reasonably comprehensive record of ACI during its lifetime and, in most cases, a much briefer synopsis of the life of each of the individual schools, although student rosters and academic records are not present. The overall ACI administrative records consist of minutes, reports, legal and financial documents, correspondence, historical summaries, building plans, studies, surveys, publications, photographs, and ACIN's corporate seal. Records of the individual schools include copies of minutes of the boards of trustees, reports, correspondence, financial documents, institutional histories, personnel records, and publicity materials.
American Church Institute
Office of the Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces. Records
Part of Office of the Presiding Bishop
This archive consists of materials that document the Office of the Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces from when General Convention established the Office of the Suffragan Bishop to 1975. Earlier materials collected by the office relate to the history and legislation on military chaplains date back to 1924. Included in the collection are meeting minutes, correspondence, diocesan files, topical files, records of grant applications and conferences, and publicity materials.
Office of the Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces
Department of Christian Education. Records
Part of Mission Program Activities
Records in this collection reflect the administrative and programmatic oversight activities of the national Episcopal Church entities responsible for education and lay Christian formation between 1920 and 1971. Though the collection is small, it covers a wide array of topics in Christian Education, including: curriculum development; continuing education; the Christian Nurture series; the Seabury series of Sunday school materials; departmental reorganization; and Christian education in various overseas regions. The materials include correspondence, minutes, reports, articles, audio tapes, and printed matter such as publications, articles, and addresses.
The correspondence includes material from the 1920s (when the unit was known as the Department of Religious Education) directed to the first Executive Secretary, the Rev. John Suter; there is then a gap, with the next group of correspondence beginning in the early 1950s. The 1970-1971 correspondence offers a good overview of issues faced in the period when there was no staff officer in charge of religious education.
A 1957 report titled “Review of Activities, Department of Christian Education, Protestant Episcopal Church” presents a comprehensive look at what the Department had accomplished up to that point and what it sought to accomplish in the future.
Department of Christian Education
General Convention Office. Records
This small collection documents the work of the Rev. John F. Stevens in his role as Coordinator of the 1973 General Convention. Included are minutes, reports, correspondence, financial data and information regarding the planning and organizing of the 1973 General Convention.
Executive Office of the General Convention
World Mission in Church and Society. Records
Part of Mission Program Activities
The World Mission in Church and Society records document the efforts of the office to support schools, hospitals, and missions established during the Church's early overseas involvement. Correspondence, reports, medical shipment records, photographs, and printed materials are included.
World Mission in Church and Society
General Convention Office. Jurisdictional Records
Ecclesiastical jurisdictional records include filings maintained by the General Convention Office as supporting documentation on the establishment of diocesan and provincial jurisdictions.
Executive Office of the General Convention
General Convention. Treasurer Records
General Convention financial records include files created and maintained by the Treasurer of General Convention, during the time period when the Treasurer of Executive Council/DFMS and the Treasurer of General Convention were occupied by different persons and separate cash accounts were kept. Records includes correspondence related to financial matters; expense reports and worksheets; reports; budget and budget working files; and committee meeting files.
Treasurer of General Convention
Education for Mission and Ministry Unit. Records
Part of Mission Program Activities
This collection comprises a mixed series of Administrative Records and Subject Files that includes correspondence, reports, and printed material that appear to have been gathered selectively by an unknown office within the Education for Mission and Ministry cluster.
Prominent topics include the Diocese of Puerto Rico, Clergy Studies, and the National Institute for Lay Training (NILT). The NILT became the legal successor to the Church Army in 1975, promoting the training of laity for service to the Church community through the placement of volunteers in parish programs and seminaries. Of particular interest are General Convention committee records and a 1973 study by the Office of Development, “What You Said,” concerning diocesan needs and priorities.
Education for Mission and Ministry Unit
The Associated Parishes, Inc. Records
The records of The Associated Parishes comprises typescript meeting minutes from 1946 through 1970 as well as a small group of publications, including an incomplete run of the quarterly publication, Sharers.
Associated Parishes of Liturgy and Mission
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