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In biblical numerology, seventeen is the number of heads and horns of diabolical significance. It is the number of the day of the Flood. It also numbers the day on which the Ark came to rest, somewhere in the Ararat mountains.
Seventeen may choose its own significance.
House of Bishops discussed diversity in episcopal elections and referred a resolution to be considered by General Convention Task Force on the Episcopacy