1. There shall be a Annual Conferences shall provide for a
structure which shall perform the functions, duties, and responsibilities
assigned to the conference Committee on Episcopacy by ¶735.3, by
structuring itself as it deems appropriate. elected quadrennially
by the Annual Conference at the session following the General Conference. The
committee's membership shall number at least seven but no more than seventeen.
One-
fifth
of the committee's membership shall be appointed by the bishop. In addition to
the lay and clergy members of the jurisdictional Committee on Episcopacy, who
shall be ex-
officio
members with vote, The Annual Conferences shall determine the
membership of the structure to which the duties and responsibilities are
assigned. The structure may be assigned other duties and responsibilities, and
nothing shall prevent membership in common with structures organized to perform
other functions within the Annual Conference. References to the "conference
Committee on Episcopacy" or to "the committee" in this ¶735 and its
various subparagraphs and elsewhere in the Discipline in appropriate
context, shall be construed and interpreted to refer to the structure so
provided pursuant to this paragraph, whatever it may be named or called.
Nevertheless, Iit is recommended that the
committee structure consist of the following: one-
third
laywomen, one-
third
laymen, and one-
third
clergy persons, provided that one layperson shall
should be the conference lay leader. Special attention shall be
given to the inclusion of racial and ethnic persons, youth (264.2), young
adults (264.3), older adults (254.5), and persons with handicapping
conditions. No member of the staff of the Annual Conference of any of
its agencies, nor an immediate family member of such staff, shall serve as a
member of the committee structure when it sits as the
Conference Committee on Episcopacy, except that a member...
Two or more conferences under the presidency of a single bishop may decide to
have one structure to function as a Committee on Episcopacy, in which
case the each Annual Conferences shall agree
on the number of representatives from each conference, and shall provide for
the election of be represented as stated in the preceding paragraph
and shall each elect its own representatives.
General Conference Webmaster: Susan Brumbaugh
PETS Creator: John Brawn
Petition Text: 20470-MN-735.1-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference