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b. In the American Episcopal Church: A voluntary organization of the clergy of a subdivision of some of the dioceses, for mutual conference, promotion of missionary work, etc., but having no legislative function. Its president is called the Dean of Convocation. The name is also applied to the division of the diocese in question, e.g. ‘Convocation of East Tennessee’.The analogue in England is a conference of the clergy of an archdeaconry or rural deanery.