Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold said the House of Bishops probably will not spend further time on the Windsor Report before the 2006 General Convention opens and expressed appreciation for the vote of confidence that the Primate of Ireland recently gave to the Episcopal Church regarding its commitment to recommendations put forth in that document. His remarks occurred during an interview with The Living Church on the final day of the Oct. 7-10 meeting of the Executive Council in Las Vegas.

In a series of meeting, Bishop Griswold suggested that with the exception of individual dioceses the majority of study and reflection on the Windsor Report between now and the start of the 2006 General Convention, which meets June 13-21 in Columbus, Ohio, will be done by the special commission that was recently appointed.

“When you look at our polity, any decision our Church makes on the Windsor Report has to be made by all orders of ministry,” he said. “The bishops had a special meeting about the Windsor Report and now there is a special commission. If the bishops had gone off and made some pronouncement about the Windsor Report, there would have been a hue and cry from others that they had been excluded.”

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