Diocesan Convention
The bishop presides over the diocesan convention, the ultimate organizational decision-making body comprised of clergy and lay members. Convention meets annually for two days in February.
The convention decides the diocesan budget (based on recommendations from the Budget and Finance Committee of the Diocesan Corporation), elects members of the diocese’s various administrative, executive and judicial bodies and votes on any resolutions—including those that amend or add to the Constitution or Canons—that may be brought before it. When necessary, it elects the bishop.
The 38th Diocesan Convention will take place on February 10-11, 2012. The Rev. Dr. Ian Douglas will be our keynote speaker. He is the Angus Dun Professor of Mission and World Christianity at the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA. Douglas, who is also associate priest at St. James Episcopal Church in Cambridge, worked at the Episcopal Church Center in New York City in overseas development and was a parish assistant in the Diocese of Haiti before joining the EDS faculty. He is currently the bishop of the Diocese of Connecticut.