SECTION 1. For convenience in its missionary operations, this Diocese shall be divided in five (5) Convocations, as follows:
(a)24 The Civil Parishes of Caddo, Bossier, Webster, Claiborne, DeSoto, Red River, Bienville and Sabine; to be known as the CONVOCATION OF SHREVEPORT.
(b) The Civil Parishes of Union, Morehouse, West Carroll, East Carroll, Concordia, Lincoln, Ouachita, Richland, Madison, Jackson, Caldwell, Franklin, and Tensas; to be known as the CONVOCATION OF MONROE.
(c)25 The Civil Parishes of Vernon, Natchitoches, Winn, Grant, LaSalle, Catahoula, Allen, Rapides, and Avoyelles; to be known as the CONVOCATION OF ALEXANDRIA.
(d) 26 The Civil Parishes of Evangeline, Calcasieu, Cameron and Beauregard; to be known as the CONVOCATION OF LAKE CHARLES.
(e) 27The Civil Parishes of St. Landry, Lafayette, Vermilion, Iberia, Acadia, Jefferson Davis and that portion of St. Martin Civil Parish situated within the boundary limits of the Diocese; to be known as the CONVOCATION OF ACADIANA.
SECTION 2.(a) Every Convocation under the supervision of the Diocesan Council shall have as its purpose the consideration of and the promotion of the Mission and Extension of the Church in its Convocation.
(b) Each Convocation shall have a Dean, who shall be a Priest, actually and canonically resident in that Convocation, and who shall be appointed by the Bishop for a term of three (3) years.
(c) 28 The Deans of Convocations shall be responsible for calling and presiding over pre-Convention Convocation meetings, other Convocation meetings as deemed necessary, and the regularly scheduling of Clericus gatherings. Additionally, the Deans of Convocations shall assist the Bishop with pastoral care to the clergy and their families.
(d) 29 At every meeting of a Convocation, each congregation therein, whether parish, mission, or college center having its own communicant register, shall be entitled to six voting delegates to be chosen in such manner as their congregation may desire. A college center not having a communicant register, but being attached to a local congregation, shall be entitled to 2 representatives. Each Clergyperson, canonically and actually resident in the Convocation, shall be entitled to vote.