SECTION 1. Subsequent to the initial Diocesan Convention, the affairs of the Corporation are to be managed by the Bishop of the Diocese (hereinafter sometimes referred to as "The Ordinary"), a Standing Committee, which shall consist of six (6) persons, one from each Convocation and one at large, to be elected for staggered three (3) year terms by the Diocesan Convention (hereinafter sometimes referred to as "Convention") as set forth by the Canons, and such other officers and committees as may be provided by the Canons. The Canons shall provide for the time and manner in which the Standing Committee and other officers and committees are elected or appointed.
All officers and members of committees shall hold office until their successors have been duly qualified.
SECTION 2. The President and the chief executive officer shall be the Bishop of the Diocese; provided that, in case of a vacancy in the Episcopate, or necessary absence of the Bishop of the Diocese from the Diocese, or other incapacity, the Bishop Coadjutor, if there be one, or the Suffragan Bishop, if there be one; otherwise, the President of the Standing Committee shall be President and executive officer.
SECTION 3. The Bishop of the Diocese shall be the ecclesiastical authority of the Diocese. When there is no Bishop of the Diocese, the Standing Committee shall be the ecclesiastical authority of the Diocese for all proper purposes,
SECTION 4. The Diocesan Convention shall be the legislative authority of the Diocese, over which the President shall preside, and is empowered to adopt Canons, to hold elections and to take any and all action, and to do any and all things necessary, germane or proper for the conduct of the affairs of the Diocese, and the exercise of the corporate powers thereof, not inconsistent with this Constitution, not with the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church.
SECTION 5. The voting membership of the Convention in both its annual and its special meeting shall consist of the following clergy and lay delegates:
(a) 6 The Bishop, and if there be such, the Bishop Coadjutor, and the Suffragan Bishop, each clergy canonically and physically resident in the Diocese, provided such clergy (i) is regularly serving a parish or mission or Diocesan institution acknowledged by the Bishop, if there is one, and the Standing Committee, or (ii) holds a cure within the Diocese, (iii) holds office in an ecclesiastical body organized under the General Convention, or (iv) serving under the supervision of the Bishop of the Armed Services as Chaplain in the Armed Services of the United States of America or at a Veterans Administration Institution.
(b) A member of the clergy under ecclesiastical discipline or suspension shall not be entitled to membership, seat and note, nor to any voice in the Convention.
(c) 7 Members and alternates of the lay delegation shall be communicants in good standing, sixteen (16) years of age or older, of the congregation which they represent. Each parish in union with the Convention shall be entitled to four (4) delegates and four (4) alternates. Each of the lay delegates shall be entitled to one (1) vote. Each mission in union with the Convention shall be entitled to one (1) lay delegate and one (1) lay alternate. The lay delegate shall be entitled to one (1) vote.
(d) 8 Every canonically organized college or university center which shall record not less than twenty-five (25) resident communicants shall be entitled to lay representation therein by one (1) lay delegate and one (1) alternate; and if fewer than twenty-five (25) resident communicants, upon the written approval of the Bishop and Standing Committee, shall be entitled to lay representation there in by one (1) lay delegate and one (1) lay alternate.
(e) Vacancies in the delegations representing any congregations shall be filled by the Vestry or Mission Council thereof, except that in those instances when meetings of such bodies may not be held, the Rector or the Minister in Charge may fill such vacancies.
(f) Each voting member shall be entitled to one (1) vote in all matters coming before the Convention. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed.
SECTION 6. The Convention shall be the final judge of the qualifications of its members.
SECTION 7. The method of electing lay delegates shall be provided by Canon.
SECTION 8. It may be provided by Canon and that seat and voice, but not vote, in the Convention may be extended, as may be deemed advisable, to officers in the Diocese and others who are not otherwise members of the Convention