Members of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh’s Diocesan Council passed a “sense of the council” resolution on April 1.  The vote does not bind the diocese to a particular course of action.  Instead, it recorded the Diocesan Council’s sense of how the diocese might best proceed if it chooses to realign.  It also creates the process by which the Diocesan Council is expected to forward its recommendation to this year’s diocesan convention.

 

The motion, put forward by Betsy Hetzler and Sherman White, passed with twenty affirmative votes, one no - Mr. John Hose, and three abstentions - Mrs. Ardelle Hopson, the Rev. Dr. Moni McIntyre, and Mrs. Joan Morris.

 

The full text of the resolution follows:

 

FURTHER, the Council asks that a resolution with this provincial realignment be prepared and brought to Council not later than June for final consideration and subsequent forwarding to the 143^rd Annual Convention.