# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S242
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242 RESOLUTIONS — COMMITTEE 6

Clarifying or Changing Procedure with Reference
‘to Place of Ordination of Candidates

RESOLUTION 25, COMMITTEE 6

Memorial 514, page 464, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, Memorial 514, page 464, calls attention to the lack of
uniformity in practice in the ordination of candidates; and

Wuereas, Article XII, 9c of the Constitution states that “the
District Presidents shall perform, either in person or by proxy, the
ecclesiastical ordination of the candidates for the ministry assigned
to their District .. .”; and
Wuereas, It is desirable that pertinent sections of the synodical
Handbook be clarified; therefore be it

Resolved, That Section 4.19 be amended to read as follows:

“4.19 Place and Manner

“a. The ordination of a candidate shall, as a rule, for the sake of
good order in the church take place in the presence of the congre-
gation to which he has been called. However, the President of the
District in which the calling congregation is located may permit
the ordination to take place in the home congregation of the
candidate and accordingly, with the permission of the calling con-
gregation, authorize the ordination of the candidate in his home
congregation. The President of the District in which: the calling
congregation is located shall issue a diploma of ordination.

“b. The installation of candidates or pastors shall always take
place in the presence of the congregation to which they have been
called.

“ce. Candidates and pastors shall be ordained and installed in
accordance with the accepted Lutheran forms for that purpose and
shall be solemnly pledged to the Scriptures as the inspired and
inerrant Word of God and the Symbolical Books of the Lutheran
Church as a true exposition of the Scriptures.”

Action
This resolution was adopted after the words: “for the sake of

good order in the church” had been inserted in paragraph “a” by
the Committee.

Change of Synodical Election Procedures
RESOLUTION 26, COMMITTEE 6
Memorial 506, page 452, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, The 1956 convention of the Synod directed that a spe-
cial committee be appointed to study the election procedures of the
Synod and report its findings to this convention; and

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