Full Legislative History
Resolution Number: 1976-B175
Title: Accept Diocesan Lands on Behalf of the Navajo Area Mission
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That the General Convention of the Episcopal Church meeting in 1976, accept from the Dioceses of Utah and Arizona a cession of such portions of the said Dioceses as encompass lands of the Navajo Reservation, as well as the congregations of the Navajo Episcopalians on or adjacent to the exterior boundaries of the said Reservation, in order that the House of Bishops may establish an Area Mission within said ceded territory in accordance with Article VI., Section 1; such cession to be contingent upon the decision of the House of Bishops to establish such a mission.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, 1976 (New York: General Convention, 1977), p. C-62.