Gathered clergy and lay deputies of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh approved the following resolution by roll-call vote during the first business session of the 140th Annual Convention on Nov. 4.  The vote was by orders.  For the clergy order, 85 voted in favor, 12 against, and nine abstained.  For the lay order, 118 voted in favor, 45 against, and six abstained.

 Resolution on the Anglican Communion

Resolved, that this 140th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh:

1) accepts the Windsor Report (2004), and its corollary documents the Lambeth 1.10 text (1998) and the Dromantine Communiqué (2005), as the basis on which this Diocese, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and the Anglican Communion can go forward together; and

2) calls upon Pittsburgh’s deputies to the 75th General Convention (June 2006) to do everything in their power to help that Convention make a clear statement of submission to the teaching of, and a clear statement of intent to abide by the requirements of, said Windsor Report and its corollary documents; and

3) declares that, should the 75th General Convention determine to continue its “walk apart” from the Anglican Communion – by its failure to accept unreservedly the Windsor Report and its corollary documents or to commit to a church life consonant with them –  the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh will stand with all Anglican Churches, Dioceses and Provinces that hold and maintain the ‘Historic Faith, Doctrine, Sacrament and Discipline of the one Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church’ whatever the costs or actions required to do so

- Posted November 4, 2005 -