Commission on the Status of Deaconesses (see p.340) - Canon XXV (see p.107)
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/official3944
- Date
- 1962 August
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Type
- Resolution
- Seconder
- Bishop of Fredericton
- Text of motion
- That Canon XXV, Section 1, subsections (1), (2) and (3) read as follows:
- (1) Women of devout character and approved fitness may be set apart by the Bishop of any Diocese for the work of a Deaconess, according to such forms as shall be authorized by the House of Bishops, and no woman shall be recognized as a Deaconess until she has been so set apart. The office of the Deaconess shall be recognized as a ministry to which women may be called which involves dedication to life-long service.
- (2) A Deaconess, duly set apart in another branch of the Anglican Communion, may be recognized and licensed by any Bishop in Canada.
- (3) Before the service for the ordering of Deaconesses the candidate shall be required to take suitable oaths of subscription which will express her willingness to obey her Ordinary and the Canons of the Diocese to which she is licensed. CARRIED in both Houses.
- Subjects
- Deaconesses - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada. General Synod. Constitution. Canon XXV