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Records of the proceedings and directly supervised programs of the entities under the management of the Executive Council. Records include proceedings, minutes, reports, documents, governance records, and some administrative records. With the consolidation of executive powers under the primate after 1973, staff offices typically associated with the National/Executive Council were placed under the authority of the Presiding Bishop acting as mission program or administrative entities. These staff offices exist as a separate categories of mission program or in their administrative capacity with the DFMS.

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.

The papers of Bishop Ogilby comprise printed materials, photograph albums, and some miscellaneous loose photographs. The primary value of this collection is the material pertaining to the Brent School in the Philippines and the relationship of the Ogilby family to the school. Although some of the photographs date back as far as 1913, most of the materials reflect the 1950s and 1960s during the rebuilding of the school after World War II.

Malcolm Riker’s archive is made up of photographic slides from his many trips to Europe, focusing on historic sites, churches, and picturesque landscapes. This collection of transparency slide images documents Malcolm Riker’s ministry of education, his love of history, and interest in travel.

This small collection documents an effort between the Episcopal Church and the Church of England to set up and maintain an exchange program across different polities and forms of church governance. It contains views of life in both countries and a case study of the relations between the churches in a joint program. The records consist of correspondence, most of which is with or by Warren Turner, Jr., as well as photographs.

This collection provides a high level overview of the work of the Social Welfare Officer, Woodrow W. Carter, Sr., with particular emphasis on his work to coordinate interest across the Church in addressing salient and time-sensitive social concerns. The records bridge the later years of the Christian Social Relations Department but speak mostly to the experimental and investigative strategy of the national church bureaucracy in the 1970s. By that decade, the remnant departmental boundaries of the National Council's Domestic Mission portfolio had given way to amorphous structures that allowed executive officials more flexibility in responding to the perceived needs of the day. The central mission personnel became known as the mission “Program staff” that carried out the work of Executive Council under the direction of the Presiding Bishop. The records serve to demonstrate the last years in which the national Church’s ministry specialists served the governing Council as program staff officers and executives were appointed by and served at the behest of the chief executive officer, a title that was added to the office of the Presiding Bishop.

The scrapbooks contain an assortment of research materials gathered about the Cooley family, as well as information on the Cooley Family Association and their genealogy. Also included are clippings, articles, photographs of various bishops, reports relating to the Committee of the Nomination for the Bishop Coadjutor for the Diocese of Minnesota, biographical information on church prelates, and news of the Church in America.

Records documenting the domestic and foreign operation and program of the offices and agents of the Board of Missions, including entities with loose reporting relationship or funded directly by the Board of Missions. Some Board of Missions fonds and records may have been processed with a continuing body of records or a similar function of a National Council successor unit, or even with a continuing Executive Council entity. Some notes indicate that archivists arranged early records in large groupings for convenience (cf.., introductory notes for RG 45 and RG 50).

A category of records that includes executive-level planning and management of Domestic Mission offices, staff and activities. It may include policy documents, budgets and staffing decisions, planning documents, and reports to the Presiding Bishop, Council, and General Convention bodies. (See also AR PB 02 Administration, Administrative Officers, and Canons for overlapping areas of domestic program coordination).

A category of record relating to specific programs to attract new members and retain existing members through educational activities, congregational support, local giving capacity building, special conferences and revivals, and targeted membership development, particularly the youth. The records include evangelical events, planning, publications, video marketing and appeals.

Permanent records of financial accounting and status. The records include accounts payable and receivable (including donations and gifts), standard financial statements, ledgers, charts of account, financial reports and analysis, proposed and final budgets, and distribution of cash funds for awarded grants.

The Allin Papers rank as the most comprehensive archive of personal papers of any primate in The Episcopal Church. The archive documents each of the venues in which Allin practiced his ordained ministry and, equally importantly, closely reflects the relationships he developed in his vocational life.

The archive concentrates on Allin’s 1974-1985 term as Presiding Bishop but provides substantial evidence of his service to the Church in ordained ministry, as well as personal pursuits after his retirement. The collection includes sermons, correspondence, photographs, and audio and video recordings. Allin’s life prior to his election as Presiding Bishop is documented by personal calendars, correspondence, and photographs.