The Annual Convention of the Diocese of Southern Ohio has passed resolutions addressing a variety of topics. Below, resolutions can be browsed by subject and by year.
Note: This archive is in the process of being populated. All resolutions may not yet appear. Contact our diocesan archivist, the Rev. Anne Warrington Wilson, with questions
Abortion
- R-87-01- A resolution on an Abortion Study Task Force
- R-86-03- A resolution on an Abortion Study Task Force
- R-85-07- A resolution on abortion
- R81-05- A resolution on a free choice with regard to abortion
Abuse
Accessibility
- R-87-12- A resolution for funding the Diocesan Architectural Commission under the
- R-86-05- A resolution on promotion of education, leadership and employment of handicapped persons
- R-86-04- A resolution on access to church buildings for the handicapped
Addiction
Adult Literacy
Alcohol
- R-85-01- A resolution on the use of alcohol at church functions
- R-82-07 A resolution on alcoholism, in response to the Bishop’s Address
Alcoholism
Anna Louise Inn
- R2012-04- Call for Continued Support of Cincinnati Union Bethel and Anna Louise Inn
- R2011-02- Support of Cincinnati Union Bethel and Anna Louise Inn
Apartheid
- R-86-01- A resolution on visible support for an immediate end to apartheid in South Africa
- R-85-06- A resolution opposing apartheid in South Africa
- R-84-04- A resolution concerning the government of South Africa’s policy on apartheid
Appalachia
Central America
- R-84-16- A resolution on peace in Central America
- R-83-07-A- A resolution concerning the problems affecting the people of Central America
- R-83-07-B- A resolution concerning the granting of asylum to the refugees of Central America
Change Canonical Designation
- R2022-01- Resolution for Closure of St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal Church, Maineville
- R2022-02- Resolution for Closure of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Bellaire
- R2021-01- Change canonical designation of St. Paul’s, Logan, from mission to parish
- R2019-01- A resolution dissolving the union between St. Luke, Sayler Park (Cincinnati) and the Diocese of Southern Ohio
- R2018-01- Dissolve the Union between St. Andrew’s, Dayton and the Convention of the Diocese of Southern Ohio
- R2016-1- Change canonical designation of St. Andrew’s, Pickerington
- R2015-03- Dissolve the Union between St. Stephen’s, Mt. Healthy and the Convention of the Diocese of Southern Ohio
- R2007-01- A resolution dissolving the union between St. Nicholas of Myra and the Diocese of Southern Ohio
- R2007-02- A resolution dissolving the union between St. Anthony’s and the Diocese of Southern Ohio
- R2006-01- A resolution to dissolve the union between the Church of the Nativity, Price Hill (Cincinnati) and the Convention of the Diocese of Southern Ohio
Church Planting
Climate Change
- R2022-08- A Call for Environmentally Responsible Investment
- R2022-09- A Call to Participate in Care of Creation and Address Environmental Injustice
- R2017-02- Climate Change- Corporate Governance
- R2012-03- Endorse the Energy Stewards and Energy Audit Programs of Ohio Interfaith Power and Light
Commemoration
Committees, Commissions, Task Forces
- R-87-01- A resolution on an Abortion Study Task Force
- R-86-03- A resolution on an Abortion Study Task Force
- R-84-05- A resolution concerning the World Hunger and Poverty Committee
Companion Relationships
- R-87-05- A resolution of appreciation and thanksgiving (Nigerian partnership)
- R-86-07- A resolution to continue relationships with the Diocese of Lagos and Ijebu, Nigeria for three years
Creation Care
- R2022-09- A Call to Participate in Care of Creation and Address Environmental Injustice
- R2022-08- A Call for Environmentally Responsible Investment
Criminal Justice Reform
Death Penalty
Debt Relief
Diocesan Convention
Earth Charter
Ebola
Ecclesiastical Authority
R2005-02- Designation of Temporary Ecclesiastical Authority
Economic Development
- R2008-05- A resolution to adopt principles of just and environmentally sustainable community economic development
- R2007-06- A resolution to study and make policy recommendations to the 134th Diocesan Convention about environmentally sustainable community economic development
Ecumenism
- R2013-02- A Renewed Commitment to Interreligious Relations
- R2006-05- A resolution regarding relations with the United Methodist Church.
End of Life
Energy Conservation
- R2012-03- Endorse the Energy Stewards and Energy Audit Programs of Ohio Interfaith Power and Light
- R2009-02- A resolution supporting water and energy conservation and restricting the use of commercially bottled water
Environment
- R2017-02- Climate Change- Corporate Governance
- R2012-03- Endorse the Energy Stewards and Energy Audit Programs of Ohio Interfaith Power and Light
- R2011-05- Concerning the practice of high-volume, horizontal hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking
- R2007-06- A resolution to study and make policy recommendations to the 134th Diocesan Convention about environmentally sustainable community economic development
Episcopal Church
Episcopal Relief & Development
Episcopal Transition
Equal Opportunity
Fair Food Program
Fair Trade
Famine
Food Security
Fracking
Handicapped (Disability)
Health Care
HIV/AIDS
- R-87-04- A resolution concerning housing for persons with AIDS:ARC
- R-87-03- A resolution on AIDS responsibilities of Diocesan ministries
- R-87-02- A resolution on a Diocesan AIDS Task Force
- R-86-11- A resolution on AIDS
- R-85-05- A resolution on the AIDS crisis
Homelessness
- R2017-03- Repair America’s Safety Net
- R-86-08- A resolution on homelessness
- R-85-04- A resolution on the homeless
Housing
- R-87-04- A resolution concerning housing for persons with AIDS:ARC
- R-86-08- A resolution on homelessness
Hunger
Immigration
- 2010-04- The Episcopal Church’s witness with and for immigrants in Southern Ohio
- R2009-01- The Episcopal Church Witness with Immigrants in Southern Ohio
Inclusive Language
- R-87-06- A resolution on the Inclusive Language Education Program
- R-84-06- A resolution to eradicate institutional sexism in the Church
Indigenous People
Interreligious Relationships
Marriage
Marriage Equality
Military Families
Millennium Development Goals
- R15-01- Directing the Support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- R14-02- Directing the Support of the Millennium Development Goals
- R2006-02- Directing the support of the Millennium Development Goals.
Mission
Mission Shares
Mission Share Funding
- R2022-04- Resolution to Cancel Mission Share Incentive Plan
- R2022-05- A resolution to exclude PPP Loan:Grants from the estimated 2023 mission share calculation
- R2021-02- Mission Share Funding Plan
- R2016-2 Mission Share Funding Plan (amendment)
Mission Trip
Payday Lending
Peace
- R2011-04- Seeking peace and reconciliation and honoring the ministry of James Diamond
- R-85-09- A resolution of Peace Study
- R-84-03- A resolution concerning the Peace Initiatives Network (PIN)
- R-84-16- A resolution on peace in Central America
- R-83-05 A resolution responding to “The Challenge of Peace”
- R-83-06-A A resolution concerning the formation of a Peace Initiatives Network
- R-83-06-B A resolution concerning General Convention resolutions regarding Peace Initiatives and Nuclear Armaments
Politics
Poverty
- R2019-03- Recommitting to Support of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
- R2019-04- Repair America’s Safety Net
- R2017-03- Repair America’s Safety Net
- R-86-08- A resolution on homelessness
- R-85-04- A resolution on the homeless
- R-84-05- A resolution concerning the World Hunger and Poverty Committee
Prison Ministry
Procter Camp & Conference Center
Public Health
Racial Equality
Racism
- R2022-07- Celebration of the Sesquicentennial of the Diocese of Southern Ohio
- R2013-01- Resistance to Racial Profiling
- R-87-17- A resolution on equal opportunity, fair employment and non-discrimination
- R-84-04- A resolution concerning the government of South Africa’s policy on apartheid
Reconciliation
Refugees
- R-87-11- A resolution for refugee resettlement
- R-84-15- A resolution on refugees
- R-83-07-B- A resolution concerning the granting of asylum to the refugees of Central America
- R-81-12 A resolution on the resettlement of refugees
Reparations
Sexism
Sexual Harassment
South Africa
- R-86-01- A resolution on visible support for an immediate end to apartheid in South Africa
- R-85-06- A resolution opposing apartheid in South Africa
- R-84-04- A resolution concerning the government of South Africa’s policy on apartheid
Support of Pregnant Women
Sustainability
- R2019-03- Recommitting to Support of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
- R2008-04- A resolution concerning ministries in sustainable agriculture and strengthening local food systems
- R2008-05- A resolution to adopt principles of just and environmentally sustainable community economic development
- R2007-06- A resolution to study and make policy recommendations to the 134th Diocesan Convention about environmentally sustainable community economic development
Sustainable Development Goals
United Methodist Church
Veterans
Violence
Volunteerism
Voter Rights
Water Conservation
West Africa
Windsor Report
- R2007-11- A resolution urging all the dioceses and Bishops to receive and accept the Windsor Report (offered as replacement for R2007-09)
- R2005-03- A resolution calling for the affirmation of the Windsor Report.
Workers Rights
World Debt
Young Adult Service Corps (YASC)
Youth
Resolutions by Year
- R2022-01- Resolution for Closure of St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal Church, Maineville
- R2022-02- Resolution for Closure of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Bellaire
- R2022-03- A Resolution to rescind Resolution 2017-05
- R2022-04- Resolution to Cancel Mission Share Incentive Plan
- R2022-05- A resolution to exclude PPP Loan:Grants from the estimated 2023 mission share calculation
- R2022-06- Recommitting to Support of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
- R2022-07- Celebration of the Sesquicentennial of the Diocese of Southern Ohio
- R2022-08- A Call for Environmentally Responsible Investment
- R2022-09- A Call to Participate in Care of Creation and Address Environmental Injustice
- R2021-01- Change canonical designation of St. Paul’s, Logan, from mission to parish
- R2021-02- Mission Share Funding Plan
- R2021-04- A Resolution for Continued Funding of the Beloved Community
- R2021-05- A Resolution to Include the Name Bishop Barbara Clementine Harris in the Lesser Feasts & Fasts Calendar
- R2021-06- Continuing the work of the Reparations Task Force
- R2019-01- A resolution dissolving the union between St. Luke, Sayler Park (Cincinnati) and the Diocese of Southern Ohio
- R2019-02- Call to Respond to the Opioid Epidemic
- R2019-03- Recommitting to Support of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
- R2019-04- Repair America’s Safety Net
- R2019-05- A Resolution to Amend R2017-05
- R2017-01- In Support of the Abolishment of the Death Penalty in Ohio
- R2017-02- Climate Change- Corporate Governance
- R2017-03- Repair America’s Safety Net
- R2017-04- Support of One Person, One Vote
- R2017-05- A resolution to change annual convention
- R2017-06- Sexual Harassment Policy Review and Implementation of Specific Training Programs
- R2011-01- A resolution in support of diocesan missionaries, the Dohns
- R2011-02- Support of Cincinnati Union Bethel and Anna Louise Inn
- R2011-03- Deepening our kinship in Christ with the Episcopal Church of Liberia
- R2011-04- Seeking peace and reconciliation and honoring the ministry of James Diamond
- R2011-05- Concerning the practice of high-volume, horizontal hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking
- R2011-06- Structural reform of The Episcopal Church
- R2009-01- The Episcopal Church Witness with Immigrants in Southern Ohio
- R2009-02- A resolution supporting water and energy conservation and restricting the use of commercially bottled water
- R2009-03- A resolution regarding a companion relationship with the Episcopal Church of Liberia.
- R2009-04- A resolution to endorse The Earth Charter
- R2008-03- A Resolution Concerning Health Care
- R2008-04- A resolution concerning ministries in sustainable agriculture and strengthening local food systems
- R2008-05- A resolution to adopt principles of just and environmentally sustainable community economic development
- R2008-06- Resolution supporting debt relief of developing countries as outlined in the Jubilee Act on World Debt
- R2008-07- A Resolution Establishing a Sunday in Lent as “Episcopal Relief and Development Sunday”
- R2008-08- A resolution concerning economic justice work in the Episcopal Church (to be submitted to the 2009 General Convention)
- R2007-01- A resolution dissolving the union between St. Nicholas of Myra and the Diocese of Southern Ohio
- R2007-02- A resolution dissolving the union between St. Anthony’s and the Diocese of Southern Ohio
- R2007-03- A resolution concerning regulation of payday lending in Ohio.
- R2007-04- A resolution endorsing the formation of an Ohio Interfaith Power and Light
- R2007-05- A resolution in support of pregnant women
- R2007-06- A resolution to study and make policy recommendations to the 134th Diocesan Convention about environmentally sustainable community economic development
- R2007-10- A resolution calling for a coordinated response to veterans of the United States military and their families
- R2007-11- A resolution urging all the dioceses and Bishops to receive and accept the Windsor Report (offered as replacement for R2007-09)
- R2006-01- A resolution to dissolve the union between the Church of the Nativity, Price Hill (Cincinnati) and the Convention of the Diocese of Southern Ohio.
- R2006-02- Directing the support of the Millennium Development Goals.
- R2006-03- A Resolution on naming facilities at Procter Camp & Conference Center
- R2006-04 A request for financial support for a youth mission trip
- R2006-05- A resolution regarding relations with the United Methodist Church.
- R-87-01- A resolution on an Abortion Study Task Force
- R-87-02- A resolution on a Diocesan AIDS Task Force
- R-87-03- A resolution on AIDS responsibilities of Diocesan ministries
- R-87-04- A resolution concerning housing for persons with AIDS:ARC
- R-87-05- A resolution of appreciation and thanksgiving (Nigerian partnership)
- R-87-06- A resolution on the Inclusive Language Education Program
- R-87-08- A resolution concerning the hunger issue
- R-87-11- A resolution for refugee resettlement
- R-87-12- A resolution for funding the Diocesan Architectural Commission under the Human Affairs and Concerns Commission Budget (Accessibility)
- R-87-17- A resolution on equal opportunity, fair employment and non-discrimination
- R-87-22- A resolution on adult literacy
- R-86-01- A resolution on visible support for an immediate end to apartheid in South Africa
- R-86-02- A resolution on mission and Jubilee Ministry
- R-86-03- A resolution on an Abortion Study Task Force
- R-86-04- A resolution on access to church buildings for the handicapped
- R-86-05- A resolution on promotion of education, leadership and employment of handicapped persons
- R-86-07- A resolution to continue relationships with the Diocese of Lagos and Ijebu, Nigeria for three years
- R-86-08- A resolution on homelessness
- R-86-11- A resolution on AIDS
- R-85-01- A resolution on the use of alcohol at church functions
- R-85-03- A resolution on adult illiteracy
- R-85-04- A resolution on the homeless
- R-85-05- A resolution on the AIDS crisis
- R-85-06- A resolution opposing apartheid in South Africa
- R-85-07- A resolution on abortion
- R-85-08- A resolution on the right to die
- R-85-09- A resolution of Peace Study
- R-85-10- A resolution on opposing abuse and violence
- R-84-03- A resolution concerning the Peace Initiatives Network (PIN)
- R-84-04- A resolution concerning the government of South Africa’s policy on apartheid
- R-84-05- A resolution concerning the World Hunger and Poverty Committee
- R-84-06- A resolution to eradicate institutional sexism in the Church
- R-84-15- A resolution on refugees
- R-84-16- A resolution on peace in Central America
- R-84-17- A resolution in support of Appalachian Peoples Service Organization (APSO)
- R-84-18- A resolution on famine relief in Central Africa
- R-83-05 A resolution responding to “The Challenge of Peace”
- R-83-06-A A resolution concerning the formation of a Peace Initiatives Network
- R-83-06-B A resolution concerning General Convention resolutions regarding Peace Initiatives and Nuclear Armaments
- R-83-07-A- A resolution concerning the problems affecting the people of Central America
- R-83-07-B- A resolution concerning the granting of asylum to the refugees of Central America
- R-83-08- A resolution concerning the Jubilee Ministry:Next Step in Mission Program
