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General Synod of the Church of England
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{{Short description|Tricameral legislature of the Church of England}}(File:Logo of the Church of England-cropped.png|thumb|100px|Church of England logo)The General Synod is the tricameral deliberative and legislative organ of the Church of England. The synod was instituted in 1970, replacing the Church Assembly, and is the culmination of a process of rediscovering self-government for the Church of England that had started in the 1850s.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Church Assembly: 1919 to 1970
Before 1919, any change to the church's worship or governance had to be by Act of Parliament, which resulted in little being done.Garbett, Cyril. The Claims of the Church of England Hodder & Stoughton:1947, pp.192f In 1919, the Convocations of the provinces of Canterbury and York adopted the constitution of the National Church Assembly proposed by the Representative Church Council and presented it to the king as an appendix to an address. The constitution as proposed to the sovereign was then recognised as already existing in the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 thus obtaining legal recognition of the assembly without implying that it had been created by Parliament or that Parliament could modify its constitution.Iremonger, F.A. William Temple, OUP:1948, p.273By means of the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 Parliament then gave the assembly power to prepare Measures which, once presented to Parliament and approved by a special procedure (see below), were to "have the force and effect of an Act of Parliament" on "any matter concerning the Church of England", and included the power to repeal or amend Acts of Parliament concerning the church.Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 (1919 c.76 9 and 10 Geo 5) on the UK Statute Law Database website â retrieved 9 May 2008 The preparation of such measures lay mainly with a joint Legislative Committee of the three houses of the assembly and this committee negotiated with the parliamentary Ecclesiastical Committee to reach an agreed form.Neill, Stephen. Anglicanism Penguin:1960, p.437{{anchor|jump1}}The Act required that, after being passed by the assembly, the measure had to be examined by a joint committee of both Houses of Parliament which prepared a report to both houses. If then approved by each House, it was submitted to the Sovereign for royal assent. If MPs or members of the House of Lords were not content with a measure then they could vote to reject it, but not amend it. Once a measure had been agreed ("deemed expedient") by both Houses of Parliament, and received royal assent, it was (from 1926) printed with the Acts of Parliament for the year in question.General Synod: from 1970
Establishment
By the Synodical Government Measure 1969,WEB,weblink Synodical Government Measure 1969, 1969, 2023-04-10, the Church Assembly renamed and reconstituted itself as the General Synod of the Church of England. It also took over almost all the powers formerly exercised by the Convocations of Canterbury and York.Membership
The synod is tricameral, consisting of the House of Bishops, the House of Clergy and the House of Laity. There are currently 467 members in total.The House of Bishops is made up of the 30 diocesan bishops in the Province of Canterbury, the 12 diocesan bishops of the Province of York, the Bishop of Dover (who functions as diocesan bishop of Canterbury, in the Province of Canterbury), and seven other suffragan bishops (four from Canterbury and three from York) elected by all suffragan bishops.The House of Clergy comprises clergy elected from the following:- 128 from the dioceses of the Province of Canterbury,
- 54 from the dioceses of the Province of York,
- 4 from among clergy teaching in universities or theological colleges. One must be from the Province of York (this arrangement replaced seats for specific universities as of the 2015 election),
- 6 deans elected from cathedrals, plus either the Dean of Jersey or the Dean of Guernsey,
- the 3 principal Anglican chaplains (and archdeacons) of the Armed Services,usually the Chaplain of the Fleet, the Chaplain General, and the Chaplain-in-Chief, or their Anglican deputies if the most senior chaplain is from a different denomination plus the Chaplain-General of Prisons (and Archdeacon), and
- 2 members of religious communities.
- up to 170 members elected by the laity of the Province of Canterbury,
- up to 80 members elected by the laity of the Province of York,
- the Dean of the Arches,
- the Vicars-General of the Provinces of Canterbury and York,
- the three Church Estate Commissioners,
- the Chairman of the Central Board of Finance,
- the Chairman of the Church of England Pensions Board,
- the members of the Archbishops' Council who are communicants of the Church of England.
Functions
The functions of the synod are:- legislation:
- to pass measures dealing with the government of the church and its institutions,
- to pass canons,7th Edition of the Canons of the Church of England - retrieved 2 June 2019 determining doctrine and the form of worship,It was through an amendment to the Canons that women were admitted to the priesthood â Canon C4B (now repealed and replaced by new Canon C4). The making of the Canon was authorised by the Priests (Ordination of Women) Measure 1993 (now repealed and replaced by the Bishops and Priests (Consecration and Ordination of Women) Measure 2014).
- to approve the liturgy and make other rules and regulations through Acts of Synod,For example, the Episcopal Ministry Act of Synod 1993 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827232102weblink |date=27 August 2008 }} (retrieved 9 May 2008) formerly made provision for those parishes which would not accept women priests to be overseen by alternative bishops. It has been replaced by the House of Bishopsâ Declaration on the Ministry of Bishops and Priests (GS Misc 1076) (retrieved 2 May 2019).
- to regulate relations with other churches,
- to consider and express their opinion on any other matters of religious or public interest, and
- to approve or reject the annual budget of the church
See also
- Doctrine Commission: In existence between 1922 and 2010. Latterly commission of General Synod
- Enabling Act: Includes brief background of reasons which led to the act being passed
- English Covenant
- Faith and Order Commission: Replaced Faith and Order Advisory Group in 2010
- List of Church of England measures
- Houses of Laymen
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- Short film shown at General Synod in November 2015 to portray the Church of England
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