General Convention

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decision-making body governing body institution of the Episcopal Church legislative body

The General Convention is the primary legislative and decision-making body of the Episcopal Church, composed of representatives from its dioceses who meet to set policy, doctrine, and mission priorities.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
General Convention canonical	3

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	decision-making body ⓘ governing body ⓘ institution of the Episcopal Church ⓘ legislative body ⓘ
affiliation	Anglican Communion ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	General Convention of the Episcopal Church ⓘ
composedOf	bishops ⓘ clergy deputies ⓘ lay deputies ⓘ
convenes	at various locations in the United States ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ
decisionMakingProcess	bicameral ⓘ
establishes	churchwide policies on social issues ⓘ guidelines for ecumenical and interfaith relations ⓘ standards for ordained ministry ⓘ
governs	churchwide mission strategy ⓘ churchwide program and structure ⓘ national policy of the Episcopal Church ⓘ
hasAuthorityOver	Book of Common Prayer ⓘ surface form: Book of Common Prayer (Episcopal Church) churchwide canons ⓘ churchwide constitution ⓘ
hasChamber	House of Bishops ⓘ House of Deputies ⓘ
hasFunction	adopts canons of the Episcopal Church ⓘ adopts constitution of the Episcopal Church ⓘ approves budget of the Episcopal Church ⓘ approves liturgical texts ⓘ elects certain church officers ⓘ sets doctrine for the Episcopal Church ⓘ sets mission priorities for the Episcopal Church ⓘ sets policy for the Episcopal Church ⓘ
includesRepresentativesFrom	convocations of Episcopal Churches in Europe ⓘ every diocese of the Episcopal Church ⓘ
jurisdiction	Episcopal Church ⓘ surface form: Episcopal Church in the United States and other territories
language	English ⓘ
meetingType	general churchwide gathering ⓘ
meetsEvery	three years ⓘ
partOf	Episcopal Church ⓘ
primaryRole	primary legislative body of the Episcopal Church ⓘ
religion	Christianity ⓘ
religiousDenomination	Anglican Communion ⓘ surface form: Anglican Episcopal Church ⓘ surface form: Episcopal Church (United States)
represents	dioceses of the Episcopal Church ⓘ
scope	churchwide ⓘ
typeOfLegislature	ecclesiastical legislature ⓘ
votingSystem	separate votes in House of Bishops and House of Deputies ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: General Convention
Description of subject: The General Convention is the primary legislative and decision-making body of the Episcopal Church, composed of representatives from its dioceses who meet to set policy, doctrine, and mission priorities.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Episcopal Church → governance → General Convention ⓘ

TEC → governanceBody → General Convention ⓘ

subject surface form: The Episcopal Church

ECUSA → governanceBody → General Convention ⓘ