| Standing Committee - Lay (1) | |
| Mr. Richard Cole | St. Luke's, Powhatan |
| Mr. Nathaniel Elliot | St. Mark's, Suffolk |
| Mr. Stephen Israel ELECTED | St. Paul & St. Andrew, Kenbridge |
| Mr. Mike Mahaney | Christ & Grace, Petersburg |
| Mr. Roy McLeod | Manakin, Midlothian |
| Mr. Thomas Summerlin | St. Aidan's, Virginia Beach |
| Ms. Barbara Whitehurst-Malone ELECTED 1 year | St. Paul's Memorial Chapel, Lawrenceville |
| Standing Committee - Clergy (2) | |
| The Rev. Dr. Harold Cobb | Grace, Norfolk |
| The Rev. Samuel Colley-Toothaker ELECTED | Epiphany, Danville |
| The Rev. Ronald Greiser | St. John's, Portsmouth |
| The Rev. Dr. James Magness | Galilee, Virginia Beach |
| The Rev. Ruth Partlow | |
| The Rev. Edmund Pickup, Jr. | Emmanuel, Franklin |
| The Rev. Derek Pringle | Emmanuel, Hampton |
Article IV of the Constitution of the General Convention provides for the Establishment “Standing Committee” in “every Diocese”. Article IV provides: “When there is a Bishop in charge of the Diocese, the Standing Committee shall be the Bishop’s Council of Advice. If there be no Bishop or Bishop Coadjutor or Suffragan Bishop canonically authorized to act, the Standing Committee shall be the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese for all purposes declared by the General Convention. Membership and Meetings. In this Diocese, the Diocesan Canons provide that the Standing Committee is composed of six members (three clergy and three lay members). Members are elected for a term of three years, with a member of each Order being replaced each year. The Canons of the General Convention provide that the Standing Committee elect from its members a President and a Secretary and further provide that they shall meet “in conformity with their own rules”. By local custom, if the President is a member of the Clergy, the Secretary is a member of the Laity (officers alternate annually between the Orders.) The Committee meets regularly, or weekdays. (Prepared by Standing Committee, July 2003)
Principal duties and responsibilities for Standing Committees are:
1. To serve as the Diocesan Review Committee (which is only body that can issue a presentment to the Ecclesiastical Court against a member of the Clergy charged with an offense.);
2. To consent to the alienation (sale) or encumbrance(indebtedness) of property held by the Diocese, a Parish or a Congregation;
3. To approve (approval is required) the admission of Postulants as Candidates for Holy Orders;
4. To consent, which is required, to ordination to the Diaconate and to the Priesthood;
5. To consent, when the General Convention is not in session, to the election of a Coadjutor Bishop, to the election of a Suffragan Bishop, to the election of a Bishop or Bishop Coadjutor to another Diocese, and to the election of a Presiding Bishop in cases of resignation, disability, or death, and for the ordination of a Bishop;
6. To consent in cases involving the renunciation of the Ministry and Clergy entering secular employment.
