Membership of the parish and qualifications for voting at the annual meeting

From the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church (2000)

Title I, Canon 17 sec 1 (a) All persons who have received the Sacrament of Holy Baptism with water in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, whether in this Church or in another Christian Church, and whose Baptisms have been duly recorded in this Church, are members thereof.

From the Constitution and Canons of the Diocese of Pennsylvania (1996)

Canon 15 ‘Of Parish Registers and Lists of Communicants. Section 15.2.

The minister of each parish shall keep a list of the communicants therein, on which shall be entered the names of all confirmed persons in the parish who have received the Holy Communion therein, or who have been received by Letter of Transfer, or who, being regular communicants therein have been unable, for reasons satisfactory to the minister, to obtain Letters of Transfer from some other parish, in such cases notifying the ministers of such other parishes of the action taken. The minister shall from time to time, and at least annually before the meeting of the stated Convention of the Diocese, examine such list and shall indicate, opposite to or in connection with the names therein, incidents, such as death, transfer to another parish, reception of Holy Orders, excommunication or suspension, and shall not include any of the persons in whose cases such incidents have occurred, and have been noted, in any enumeration or report of persons connected with the parish.

From the Parish Charter (1995 Revised and restated articles of Incorporation of All Hallows Church, Wyncote)

Article 4 ‘Ecclesiastical Connection’

Section 1. This Church acknowledges itself to be a member of, and to belong to, The Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania. As such it accedes to, recognizes, and adopts the Constitution, Canons, Doctrines, Discipline, and Worship of the Episcopal Church, and the Constitution and Canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania.

Article 6, ‘Members’, section 1. The members of the Corporation who shall be qualified to vote at any election of the members of the Vestry and upon all questions which may come before any meeting of the Corporation, shall be all Baptized persons of the age of seventeen years or upwards, who shall have been worshippers in this Church as their usual place of public worship for at least one year, who shall appear by the books of the Corporation to have contributed to its support in such amount and for such period of time as the By-laws shall prescribe, and who shall have been registered as a member in a registry book to be kept by the rector.

Article 6, section 2. No person who shall disclaim or refuse conformity with and obedience to the Constitution, Canons, Doctrines, Discipline or Worship of the Episcopal Church or to the Constitution and Canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania shall be a member of this corporation, nor a member of the Vestry nor officer thereof.

From the Parish By-Laws (1992)

Article II ‘Of the meetings of the Corporation and the election of the vestry members’

Section 4. The election shall be in person and not by proxy and by a majority of such voters as shall be present and voting shall be necessary for a choice. Only person as are qualified to vote as provided in Article VI of the Charter shall vote.

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