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Rule 1A: Election of a Bishop Diocesan | Rule 1B: Election of a Bishop Coadjutor or Bishop Suffragan | Rule 2: Officers of the Convention | Rule 3: Appointments | Rule 4: Appeals from Rulings of the Presiding Officer | Rule 5: Quorum | Rule 6: Nominations | Rule 7: Ballots | Rule 8: Challenge to Voters | Rule 9: Method of Voting | Rule 10: Finality of Vote Once Taken | Rule 11: Speeches from the Floor | Rule 12: Suspension of Rules | Rule 13: Amendment of Rules of Order | Rule 14: Robert's Rules of Order

Rule 2: Officers of the Convention

(a) The Bishop shall be the Presiding Officer of the Convention. In the absence, or inability to act, of the Bishop, the Presiding Officer shall be the Bishop Coadjutor or the Bishop Suffragan, if there be such. If there be none, the Presiding Officer Pro Tem shall be a member of this Convention designated in writing by the Bishop. If the Bishop shall not have made such designation, the Convention shall elect from its membership a Presiding Officer Pro Tern. Such election shall take precedence over any other order of business. During such election, the Secretary of the Diocese shall preside over the Convention unless the Secretary is a nominee for Presiding Officer Pro Tem, in which case the Chancellor shall preside.
(b) The Secretary of the Diocese shall be the Secretary of the Convention.

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