Explanation

The Resolution establishes the pilot Board of Episcopal Transitions to collaborate with the Office of Pastoral Development. The Board comprises persons from all orders of the Church’s ministry. Through that collaboration, the Board will be responsible for revising existing resources and creating new resources to assist dioceses in the discernment, nomination, search, election, and transition processes for episcopal transitions; establishing a process and developing resources by which individuals may seek support in discerning a possible call to the episcopate; gathering and analyzing data regarding diversity in episcopal transitions, developing processes and resources to encourage diversity in the episcopate; recruiting, training and evaluating Transition Consultants and missional review consultants; and developing guidelines for reference, background, medical, and psychological screening of persons considered for nomination for episcopal elections and guidelines for the dissemination, evaluation, and record keeping of the screening information gathered.