Executive Council Governing Bodies
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- Record sub-group
Part of Governing Bodies of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Executive Council Governing Bodies
Part of Governing Bodies of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Part of Governing Bodies of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Records of the proceedings of committees, agencies, and officers associated with the Board of Missions and its sub-units of governance.
Bishops Suffragan for Special Ministry Areas
Part of Office of the Presiding Bishop
Includes records of bishops suffragan and assisting and their offices, which are authorized to engage in such jurisdictional areas as the Pastoral Care and Oversight of Bishops, Chaplaincy Endorsement and Oversight, the charge of Episcopal Churches in Europe, and similar non-geographical Episcopal authorities and jurisdictions.
Official Acts of the Presiding Bishop
Part of Office of the Presiding Bishop
Pastoral records relating to the House of Bishops, diocesan visitations, ongoing episcopal relationships with active and retired bishops, participation in governance bodies, pastoral letters and official communications; formal addresses and sermons; may include the Council of Advice; also includes confidential communications and records of the Ecclesiastical Discipline process, such as official inquiries, charges, proceedings, and accords and orders; also confidential incident or case files of in the oversight of bishops, employees, diocesan entities, and similar bodies.
Office of the Presiding Bishop
Part of Office of the Presiding Bishop
Records created in the conduct of official business by the Presiding Bishop or his/her office assistants, administrative and program canons, and other agents acting on the primate's behalf. May include events, special program records, employee management, activities of representatives to ecumenical bodies, other Episcopal agencies, projects, outside activities and networks, name correspondence, and miscellany; also includes confidential correspondence and other records of the Presiding Bishop's Chancellor.
Special Study Bodies, Projects, and Outside Activities
Part of Office of the Presiding Bishop
A category used for rare instances of records documenting an event that is outside the official duties of the office that may be sponsored or nominally led by the primate by but not directly operated or overseen by a position within the office operation.
General Convention of The Episcopal Church
Governing Bodies of General Convention
Records of official canonical standing committees and commissions, boards, joint house committees, task groups, and similar authorized ad hoc bodies acting in the interim and at the direction of the General Convention; may include records either generated directly by the interim body or collected as part of the central files of the Secretariat. The category does not include the separate category of Executive Council, which also acts as the board of directors for the DFMS and may act in the place of (rather at the direction of) the General Convention.
Official Papers of the President's office, the Secretary of the House, committees of the House (e.g. the State of the Church), publications and communications generated by and within the House not pertaining directly to the triennial session.
Records of the Provinces (1-9)
Archives of the nine provinces of General Convention including journals of the synod, minutes of the synod, executive committees, and ad hoc committees, program and project files, reports and publications.
Custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer
Records of the Custodians in their role of approving copies of the Standard in English and other languages, and their participation in trial or revision liturgies for the Prayer Book.
Pastoral letters, communication to the Church, records of the Secretary of the House including rolls, registers and Interim Meeting records, and House committee records. (Does not include Presiding Bishop's administrative records on the House's operation, or records pertaining directly to the triennial session.)
Ecclesiastical Discipline and Trial Court Records
Canonical deposits and other records of the Church's disciplinary process, including mostly appellate court record for the trial of a bishop and provincial trials of presbyters on appeal; some trial records from the diocesan courts. Also records of Accords and Orders.
Registrar of General Convention
Includes registry records of Episcopal Ordinations and Consecrations, and Ecclesiastical Discipline notifications.
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