Section IV. Jurisdictional Conferences

¶27

When and where a jurisdictional conference meets, and who decides.

2024 Discipline: ¶27
On the ballot paper: ¶26
Article: IV
Change: Amended

Rewritten rather than tweaked — only 29% of the wording survives. Read the two texts side by side rather than the diff.

What changed

The timing decision moves from the Council of Bishops — a worldwide body — to the College of Bishops of the regional conference where jurisdictions exist. Scheduling United States jurisdictional conferences becomes a United States matter.

Before

Book of Discipline 2020/2024, ¶27

Each jurisdictional conference shall meet at the time determined by the Council of Bishops or its delegated committee, each jurisdictional conference convening on the same date as the others and at a place selected by the jurisdictional committee on entertainment, appointed by its College of Bishops unless such a committee has been appointed by the preceding jurisdictional conference.

After

Petition 21039, as ratified

Each jurisdictional conference shall meet at the time determined by the College of Bishops of the regional conference where jurisdictions exist or its delegated committee, each jurisdictional conference convening on the same date as the others and at a place selected by the jurisdictional committee on entertainment, appointed by its respective College of Bishops unless such a committee has been appointed by the preceding jurisdictional conference.