Online Session Registration Now Open

All online events are accessible through a single registration page. From the list in the Zoom registration screen that follows, please select all of the events you intend to join, so that a personal access link may be sent to your email address. If you would like to change your registration, you may simply reenter your details through the registration page to make an update at any time.

Information for the Hybrid 2022 Annual Convention: Online or in Clermont-Ferrand, France 

To register or change your registration status, please email
For in-person attendees, please make sure to share your information with our local hosts via this online form.

The Call to Convention was emailed to delegates, alternates, active and canonically resident clergy on 16 June 2022. The Call was reissued on 21 July 2022, with updated information about hotels and public transportation, travel tips for getting to Clermont-Ferrand, and the newly announced Spouses' Program.

Official 2022 Call to Convention (PDF)
Delegates' Packet (PDF)
Journal of the 2021 Convention (PDF)
CECE Constitution and Canons 2021 (PDF)

Updated: Hotel Booking Options in Clermont-Ferrand (PDF)
Updated: Travel Tips for Getting to Clermont-Ferrand (PDF)
Updated: In-person Delegate Spouses' Program for Thursday and Friday (PDF) 

A Call to Worship

For anyone interested in attending, from across the Convocation and the globe, Digital Ministries and the Convention Planning Committee cordially invite you to access and participate virtually in every open session. We particularly hope to see you for worship services and the Festival of Gathering sessions on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

• The open session schedule will be posted here when it is released.
• For the Liturgies of Convention booklet, please check back before the opening session.

All public sessions can be found in the Convention 2022 Playlist on our YouTube Channel. Click the link below to view every available sessions and recording, and subscribe for notifications when we begin to live-stream!

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What is the Convocation Convention?

The Convention is an annual meeting to bring together representatives of all the parishes, missions, and affiliated communities of the Convocation. These representatives—both clergy and lay—make decisions and policy for all Episcopalians in the Convocation and, with the Bishop, help us to maintain our connection to the wider Episcopal Church, the Anglican Communion, and beyond.

Who attends?

Each parish and each organized mission sends two elected delegates designated by their vestry or Bishop’s council. These delegates along with the four lay members of the Council of Advice and the canonically-resident clergy of the Convocation all have the right to vote. A representative from each of the Convocation's other mission congregations is also seated and accorded full voice in the business of the Convention. Guests and other participants, along with anyone interested in attending, are generally accorded voice.

When is it?

The Convocation Convention normally meets in the middle of October, from Thursday afternoon through Sunday morning Eucharist. The location of Convention rotates around the nine parishes, and occasionally other locations. The Call to Convention is usually sent out sometime in June.

What does it do?

The principal business of the Annual Convention is to address legislation and resolutions. The Convention receives reports from the Bishop and various committees and commissions, hears the financial report and votes on the budget.

Most Conventions include a program on a theme, with presentations and discussions. These often are designed to engage the participants in looking ahead, or in deepening and learning more about our mission and ministry, and may result in guidelines for the future.

Near the end of the Convocation Convention, the Assemblée générale of the Association 1901 of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, the French legal entity of the Convocation, convenes briefly to approve of newly elected Bureau (Council of Advice ) and the financial report.

 Above all, the Convention is a gathering of our community. It is a weekend of listening, learning, worship and prayer. Everyone in the Convocation, as well as friends from beyond the Episcopal Church, are welcome to attend any Annual Convention. 

How does it work? 

The Bishop is the President of Convention.

The Convention elects the Secretary of Convention who is responsible for keeping records of all actions of the Convention, and for assembling the annual Journal of the Annual Convention of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe. The Secretary records the resolutions considered by the Convocation Convention, including any votes and actions taken on those resolutions.

The Secretary is responsible for informing the Convention of resolutions adopted by the General Convention of The Episcopal Church which call for action on the part of the Convocation or of its leadership. The Secretary also transmits any resolutions directed to General Convention and the names of the people elected as Deputies and Alternates to GC.

Each Convention elects two clerical and two lay members of the Council of Advice, each for two-year terms. The Council is composed of four clerical and four lay members with half elected each year. A member may serve no more than two consecutive terms. Members of the Disciplinary Court are elected at Convention in staggered terms. Officers of Convention are also elected: Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, and Safeguarding Officer.

Once every three years, the Convention elects the four lay and four clergy deputies, plus up to four lay and four clergy alternates to represent the Convocation at the next General Convention, two calendar years before the next GC (see Episcopal Church Canon I.15). 

Every three years, the Convention also elects one lay and one clergy observer to the Synod of the Diocese in Europe of the Church of England for three-year terms. The Synod may also send two observers to the Convocation Convention. As guests, they are given seat and voice, but no vote.