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PEOTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 



reports of statistics, and the condition of the 

 funds of the Church and its benevolent asso- 

 ciations within the several dioceses ; and to the 

 trial of clergymen who may be charged with 

 misconduct or canonical irregularities in other 

 dioceses than those to which they are attached. 

 The following resolutions were adopted with 

 respect to communication with the Russo- 

 Greek Church : 



Resolved, That this General Convention, has great 

 satisfaction in learning the courteous and brotherly 

 tenor of the letters received from the Most Reverend 

 Anthimus, Patriarch of Constantinople ; Sophronius, 

 Patriarch of Alexandria ; Hierothius. Patriarch of 

 Antioch : Isidore, president of the Holy Governing 

 Synod of Russia ; and Theophilus, Metropolitan of 

 Athens, president of the Holy Synod of Greece, in 

 answer to the communication of the action of the last 

 General Convention, through the Joint Committee, 

 as now reported. 



Resolved, That we regard the establishment of full 

 and free reciprocal relations of Christian brotherhoed 

 between the great Eastern Churches and our own 

 Communion as daily growing in importance and in 

 hopefulness, and heartily pray the Great Head of the 

 Church that His Spirit may so rule in all our Coun- 

 cils as to remove all hinderances which the pride, 

 prejudice, or error of human frailty may present to 

 hinder its consummation. 



Resolved, That we desire the continuance and in- 

 creased frequency of friendlv correspondence with 

 our brethren of the Holy Orthodox Eastern Church, 

 in the assured confidence that on either part there 

 will be the fullest recognition of all feelings and 

 rights which might be imperiled by undue or incon- 

 siderate interference. 



The Joint Committee appointed at the pre- 

 vious General Convention, to consider the ex- 

 pediency of reviving the primitive order of 

 deaconesses, reported a canon in favor of the 

 order, and unanimously recommended its pas- 

 sage. 



The proposed canon was referred to a joint 

 committee, consisting of three bishops, three 

 clerical and three lay deputies, who are to re- 

 port to the next General Convention. 



The formation of new dioceses was author- 

 ized in Ohio, New Jersey, "Wisconsin, and Mich- 

 igan. Two missionary districts were consti- 

 tuted out of parts of the Diocese of Texas, to be 

 known respectively as the Missionary Districts 

 of Northern and of "Western Texas. The Rev. 

 Alexander Charles Garrett, D. D., of Nebraska, 

 was appointed Missionary Bishop of Northern 

 Texas, and the Rev. Robert W. B. Elliott, of 

 Georgia, Missionary Bishop of "Western Texas. 

 The Missionary District of Northern California 

 was constituted out of a part of the Diocese of 

 California, and the Rev. John H. D. "Wingfield, 

 of Virginia, was appointed its bishop. The 

 Territories of New Mexico and Arizona were 

 detached from the jurisdiction of the Mission- 

 ary Bishops of Colorado and Nevada, to which 

 they had respectively belonged, and were con- 

 stituted the jurisdiction of another missionary 

 bishop. The Rev. William F. Adams, of Lou- 

 isiana, was chosen bishop of the new jurisdic- 

 tion. Japan was constituted a separate mission- 

 ary district, and its supervision was assigned 

 to the Rt. Rev. Channing MooreWilliams, D. D., 



present Missionary Bishop of China and Japan, 

 with the title of Missionary Bishop of Yeddo. 

 China was also constituted a separate mission- 

 ary district, and the Rev. William Pendleton 

 Orrick, of Michigan, was appointed its bishop, 

 who was designated as Missionary Bishop of 

 Shanghai. A missionary diocese was consti- 

 tuted in Hayti, and the Rev. J. Theodore Hally, 

 D. D., was appointed its bishop. 



Upon the division of the Diocese of New Jer- 

 sey, Bishop Odenheimer elected the new dio- 

 cese (comprising the northern part of the State) 

 as his jurisdiction. A special session of the 

 Diocese of New Jersey was called to meet at 

 Burlington, November 12th. At this meet- 

 ing, the Rev. John Scarborough, D. D., rector 

 of Trinity Church, Pittsburg, Pa., was chosen 

 bishop. 



The primary convention of the new diocese, 

 in the same State, met at Newark at the same 

 time (November 12th), under the presidency of 

 Bishop Odenheimer. It decided upon the 

 name of the Diocese of Northern New Jersey. 



A special convention of the Diocese of Ken- 

 tucky met at Louisville, November llth, to 

 elect an assistant bishop in place of Bishop 

 Cummins, withdrawn from the Church and de- 

 posed. The Rev. Thomas U. Dudley, D. D., of 

 Baltimore, was chosen. 



The primary convention of the new diocese 

 to be formed by the division of the Diocese 

 of Michigan, met at Grand Rapids, December 

 2d. It chose the name of the Diocese of West- 

 ern Michigan. The Rev. George D. Gillespie 

 was elected bishop. 



The primary convention of the new diocese 

 to be formed out of the Diocese of the Ohio was 

 appointed to be held at Columbus, January 

 13th. Bishop Bedell, Bishop of Ohio, made 

 choice of the Northern Diocese as his diocese. 

 It retains the name of the Diocese of Ohio. 



Bishop Henry W. Lee, of Iowa, died on the 

 6th of September, 1874. The diocesan con- 

 vention, called to elect his successor, chose 

 the Rev. Henry C. Potter, D. D., of New York. 

 He declined the election, and the convention 

 then chose the Rev. W. R. Huntington, 0. T. D., 

 of Worcester, Mass., who accepted and was 

 duly consecrated bishop. 



The Rt. Rev. George D. Cummins, Assistant 

 Bishop of Kentucky, on the 10th of November, 

 1873, resigned the office of bishop in the Prot- 

 estant Episcopal Church, and announced his 

 intention to withdraw from the Church, and 

 transfer his work and office to another sphere 

 of labor. He afterward engaged in the work 

 of the organization of the Reformed Episcopal 

 Church. Proceedings were duly instituted 

 against him, in conformity with the canons, 

 for abandoning the communion of the Church. 

 On the expiration of the six months required 

 by the rules, sentence of deposition from the 

 ministry of the Church, and from all the 

 rights, privileges, powers, and dignities per- 

 taining to the office of bishop in the same, 

 was pronounced against him in June, 1874. 



