Number of bishops who will need consents to their elections at General Convention 2003: 10 (Bishops elected in Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Milwaukee, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon and Texas [Suffragan]. All these elections fall within 120 days of Convention and therefore require consents of a majority in the House of Deputies and a majority of bishops with jurisdiction. At other times, diocesan standing committees provide consents, instead of the House of Deputies.)
Number of current diocesan bishops who were already diocesan bishops at the 1991 General Convention: 20 (There are 109 dioceses in ECUSA.)
Amount of additional money ECUSA would have for missions if dioceses not now paying the 21 percent asking were to do so: $4,330,321 (Based on official reports for 2001. See http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/2001dio.html for a full reckoning.)
Percentage of annual income given by the Diocese of the Rio Grande to support the mission of the Episcopal Church Center to the world: 2 percent (Based on last year reported, 2000. This was the lowest percentage of annual income given by a diocese to support this work; the Diocese of New Jersey was second lowest, giving 4 percent of its annual income.)
Amount in U.S. dollars of the 1999—2002 budget of the
Anglican Communion Office paid by the Episcopal Church (USA): $1,314,378
(This
represents 29.3 percent of that budget.)
Number of employees listed in the directory of the Episcopal Church Center in NYC: 233
Number of employees listed in the directory of the Washington Office of the Episcopal Church: 5 (This Office of Government Relations was started in 1982 by the General Convention in New Orleans, La.)
Number of missionaries sent by U.S.-based Episcopal agencies: 142 (Approximate. The most recent public reports indicate that the Episcopal Church Center sends 85; the South American Missionary Society sends 35; Episcopal World Mission sends 4; and Anglican Frontier Mission sends 18.)
Number of organizations that form The Consultation, a coalition of social justice and advocacy ministry groups in the Episcopal Church who work together at General Convention: 12 (The members are: Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission [APLM], Episcopal Asiamerica Ministry Advocates [EAMA], the Episcopal Church Publishing Company [ECPC, publisher of The Witness magazine], the Episcopal Ecological Network [EEN], the Episcopal Society for Ministry in Higher Education [ESMHE], the Episcopal Network for Economic Justice [ENEJ], the Episcopal Peace Fellowship [EPF], the Episcopal Urban Caucus [EUC], the Episcopal Women’s Caucus [EWC], Integrity, Province 8 Native American Ministries Network, and the Union of Black Episcopalians [UBE].)
Number of "special meetings" held by the General Convention, which normally meets every three years: 2 (The first was in 1821 in Philadelphia, and the second in 1969 in South Bend, Ind. The right of calling special meetings is invested in bishops.)
Witness contributing editor Louie Crew, founder of Integrity and a longtime Episcopal Church leader (he currently sits on the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council and the Diocese of Newark’s deputation to General Convention 2003) is a well-known collector and disseminator of statistics and little-known facts about the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion. His website is www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew.