Covenant Proposals for the Anglican Communion

Vermont Response to the Final Draft of the Proposed Anglican Covenant (endorsed by General Convention deputies, Bishop Thomas Ely, the Standing Committee and the Diocesan Council) April 18, 2011 (pdf)

Final Draft of the Proposed Anglican Covenant

Study Guide for the Final Draft prepared by the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church, June 2010 (pdf)

Letter from the Presiding Officers asking dioceses and congregations to study the proposed covenant, September 2010

Vermont General Convention Deputies Response to the St. Andrew's Draft, September 2008

Study Guide for the St. Andrew's Draft of a proposed Anglican Covenant prepared by the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church, February 2008 (pdf file, 489kb)

Second Report of the Covenant Design Group, with the "St. Andrew's Draft" of a proposed Anglican Covenant (February 2008) or download a pdf file (261kb)

Anglican Covenant for Communion in Mission, proposed by the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Mission and Evangelism and commended to the members of the Communion by the Anglican Consultative Council, June 2005.

Links to items related to the Primates' Meeting at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, February 2007 (includes Episcopal Church responses).

Report of the Covenant Design Group with a draft of a proposed Anglican Covenant (January 2007), or download a pdf file (220kb)

"Interpreting the Proposed Anglican Covenant through the Communiqué, by the Rev. Dr. Katherine Grieb; a paper given to the House of Bishops at its March 2007 meeting by a member of the Covenant Design Group (also professor of New Testament at Virginia Seminary)

"Communion in Christ," a liturgical/theological reflection on the January 2007 proposed Anglican Covenant by the Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission (APLM), May 2007.

Response to the Proposed Anglican Covenant by members of the Diocese of Vermont, June 2007. (Based on the Executive Council Study Guide. Note that the time frame for obtaining signatures was short, and others who would have signed this document were not able to respond in time.) pdf, 68kb

Executive Council of The Episcopal Church's Study Guide for the Proposed Anglican Covenant, April 13, 2007 (pdf, 220kb)

Vermont General Convention Deputation responds to Communiqué and proposed Anglican Covenant, March 23, 2007

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