GENERAL SYNOD

FEBRUARY GROUP OF SESSIONS 2015

CHAIRS OF DEBATES

TUESDAY 10 FEBRUARY Items 1 The Introductions and welcomes Item 2 The Archbishop of Canterbury Address by the Archbishop of the Chaldean Diocese of Erbil, Iraq Item 3 The Archbishop of Canterbury Progress of Measures and Statutory Instruments Item 4 Professor Michael Clarke Business Committee Report (GS 1974) Item 5 Professor Michael Clarke General Elections 2015: seat allocation (GS 1975) Item 6 Karen Gorham Presidential Address Item 7 The Venerable Karen Gorham Presentation on immersion experience in India Item 500 Archbishop of Canterbury Special Agenda I: Amending No. 32 (GS 1902D) Aiden Hargreaves-Smith Special Agenda I: Draft Naming of Dioceses Measure (GS 1935A) Item 501-502 The Draft Amending Canon No. 35 (GS 1964B) Item 8 The Venerable Karen Gorham Questions Item 9 The Bishop of Manchester Introduction to Wednesday’s group work and debates (GS 1976 – GS 1982)

WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY Item 10 Canon Ann Turner Discipleship (GS 1977) Item 11 The Bishop of Manchester Resourcing the Future (GS 1978) and Resourcing Ministerial Education (GS 1979) Item 12 Mr Geoffrey Tattersall Simplification (GS 1980) Item 13 The Bishop of Birmingham Church Commissioners’ funds and inter-generational equity (GS 1981) THURSDAY 12 FEBRUARY Item 503 The Revd Canon Dr Rosemarie Mallett Special Agenda I: Draft Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure (GS 1952A) and draft Amending Canon No. 34 (GS 1953A) Canon Ann Turner Special Agenda I: Petition to change the names of the suffragan sees of Knaresborough and Pontefract (GS 1983) Item 14 The Bishop of Birmingham 50th Report of the Standing Orders Committee (GS 1984) Item 15 Mr Aiden Hargreaves-Smith Special Agenda III: Canon B 38 (GS 1972A and GS 1972B) Item 600 Mr Geoffrey Tattersall Special Agenda II: Alternative Baptism Texts (GS 1958A) Item 16 The Revd Canon Dr Rosemarie Mallett Mission and Growth in Rural Multi-Parish Benefices (GS 1985) Item 17 Canon Ann Turner Farewells Item 18 The Archbishop of Canterbury Prorogation CONTINGENCY BUSINESS Mr Aiden Hargreaves-Smith Special Agenda IV: Nature and Structure of the – national debate (GS 1928A and GS 1928C) The Revd Canon Dr Rosemarie Mallett The Church: Towards a Common Vision (GS 1986)