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Report of Proceedings 2013 General Synod July Group of Sessions Report of Proceedings 2013 General Synod July Group of Sessions Volume 44 No. 1 Officers of the General Synod Presidents The Archbishop of Canterbury The Archbishop of York Prolocutors of the Lower Houses of the Convocations Canterbury York Ven. Christine Hardman Ven. Cherry Vann The House of Laity Chair Vice-Chair Dr Philip Giddings Mr Tim Hind Secretary General Mr William Fittall Clerk to the Synod Chief Legal Adviser and Registrar Dr Jacqui Philips Mr Stephen Slack Administrative Secretary to the House of Bishops Standing Counsel Mr Ross Gillson Sir Anthony Hammond KCB QC Secretary to the House of Clergy Deputy Legal Adviser Mr Jonathan Neil-Smith Revd Alexander McGregor Secretary to the House of Laity Mr Nicholas Hills Officers of the Convocations Synodical Secretary of the Convocation of Canterbury Registrar Revd Stephen Trott Mr Stephen Slack Synodal Secretary of the Convocation of York Registrar Ven. Alan Wolstencroft Mr Lionel Lennox Contents Full Synod: First Day Friday 5 July 2013 Introduction of New Members 1 Presentation of the Prolocutor of York 2 Welcome to Anglican and Ecumenical Guests 2 Address by the Bishop of Skálholt 3 Progress of Measures and Statutory Instruments 4 Report by the Business Committee 5 Approval of Appointments 12 Presidential Address 17 Legislative Business: Clergy Discipline (Amendment) Rules 2013 23 Clergy Discipline Appeal (Amendment) Rules 2013 23 Amending Code of Practice under the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 23 Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 2013; Ecclesiastical Judges, Legal Officers and Other (Fees) Order 2013 23 Scheme Amending the Diocese in Europe Constitution 1995 23 Welcome to Young Anglican Observers 24 Questions 24 Second Day Saturday 6 July 2013 Progress on Meeting Challenges for the Quinquennium 54 Third Day Sunday 7 July 2013 Legislative Business: Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 2013 71 Draft Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 81 Safeguarding: Follow-up to the Chichester Commissaries’ Reports 94 Welfare Reform and the Church 120 Fourth Day Monday 8 July 2013 Women in the Episcopate 141 Legislative Business: Draft Dioceses of Bradford, Ripon and Leeds and Wakefield Reorganization Scheme 195 Financial Business: The Archbishops’ Council’s Draft Budget and Proposals for Apportionment for 2014 218 Farewell to the Bishop of Exeter 232 Church Commissioners’ Annual Report 235 Fifth Day Tuesday 9 July 2013 Address by Bishop Angelos 241 Statement by the Chair of the Appointments Committee 243 The Work of the Elections Review Group: First Report by the Business Committee 244 Legislative Business: Draft Amending Canon No. 32 260 Draft Convocations (Elections to Upper House) (Amendment) Resolution 266 Draft Clergy Representation (Amendment) Resolution 266 Draft Church Representation Rules (Amendment) Resolution 266 The Work of the Elections Review Group: Electorate for the House of Laity and Online Elections: Second Report by the Business Committee 267 Farewells 276 Index 283 Full Synod: First Day Friday 5 July 2013 THE CHAIR The Archbishop of York (The Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr John Sentamu) took the Chair at 4.15 p.m. The Archdeacon of Rochdale (Ven. Cherry Vann) led the Synod in prayer, remembering especially Canon Bob White who was unwell, and Mrs Janet Atkinson and Dr Cherida Stobart who had recently died. The Chair: I would like to say a few words before we commence the formal business of Synod. Beloved in Christ, thank you for your prayers, cards and emails. I am not yet out of the woods but God has been gracious to me. I will know whether I need further treatment when I see the consultant surgeon towards the end of this month, so all I can say is, as you hear it on Strictly Come Dancing, ‘Keeeep praying!’ If you see me leaving the hall it is not because I disapprove of any speech, rather than I need to inspect the plumbing more frequently than usual, or, as they say in Afghanistan, ‘I am going to answer the tea’! I also ask members to pray for Denise Inge, the wife of Bishop John of Worcester. She has a tumour as big as a tennis ball, which has attached itself to three of her vital organs. We pray that it may shrink and therefore make surgery possible. Introduction of New Members The Chair: In a moment I will read the names of the new members of the Synod and I ask them to stand in their places as I mention their names and remain standing so that we can greet them all with applause at the end. The new members are: Rt Revd Jonathan Meyrik (Suffragan Bishop of Lynn) replacing the Bishop of Grimsby (Rt Revd David Rossdale); Very Revd David Ison (Deans) replacing Very Revd Vivienne Faull; Mr Andrew Mackie (Third Church Estates Commissioner) in succession to Timothy Walker; Revd Canon Wealands Bell (Lichfield) replacing Revd Paul Farthing; Canon Michael Chew (Blackburn) replacing Professor Helen Leathard; Revd Ernest Chitham (Chichester) replacing Revd Stephen France; the Archdeacon of the Meon (Ven. Gavin Collins) (Portsmouth) replacing Revd Tim Jessiman; Revd Ruth Crossly (Carlisle) replacing Revd Simon Austen; Revd Charlotte Gale (Coventry) replacing Revd Martin Gorick; Revd Canon Dr Tudor Griffiths (Gloucester) replacing Revd Dr Sandra Millar; Revd Ruth Hind (Ripon and Leeds) replacing Revd Janet Kearton; Revd Karen Hutchinson (Guildford) replacing Revd Canon Barbara Messham; Revd Canon Richard Mitchell (Gloucester) replacing Revd Canon John Witcombe; Revd Malcolm Rogers (Liverpool) replacing Revd Dr Timothy Stratford; Revd Stephen Saxbee (Chelmsford) replacing Revd Dr Timothy Bull; the Archdeacon of Craven (Ven. Paul Slater) (Bradford) replacing Revd Canon Samuel Randall; Revd Canon Dr Simon Taylor (Derby) replacing Revd Canon Jackie Searle; Revd Rowan Clare Williams (York) replacing Revd Canon Glyn Webster; Ven. Ian Whitley QHC RN (Forces Synodical Council) replacing Ven. Martin Poll. May we formally welcome them in the name of our Lord. (Applause) 1 Presentation of the Prolocutor Friday 5 July 2013 It also gives me great pleasure to welcome Heather Pritchard and Samuel Magorrian, the newly elected representatives of the Church of England Youth Council attending this group of sessions under SO 113A, and Charlotte Cook, who has been re-elected. May we please greet them most warmly. (Applause) It is also my pleasure to welcome the bishops attending during vacancies in See. I remind members that they have speaking but not voting rights; and as they are not members of the Synod they do not form part of the quorum of the House of Bishops. They are: the Bishop of Jarrow (Rt Revd Mark Bryant) for the diocese of Durham; the Bishop of Bolton (Rt Revd Chris Edmondson) for the diocese of Manchester; and the Bishop of Taunton (Rt Revd Peter Maurice) for the diocese of Bath and Wells. May we welcome them. (Applause) Presentation of the Prolocutor of the Convocation of York The Chair: The Lower House of the Convocation of York has elected as its Prolocutor the Venerable Cherry Vann. I invite her proposer and seconder to present her. Revd Canon Pete Spiers (Liverpool): I am delighted to present to the Synod the Archdeacon of Rochdale, the Venerable Cherry Vann, as the newly elected Prolocutor for the northern Convocation. (Applause) Welcome to Anglican and Ecumenical Guests The Chair: Nine churches or groups of churches appoint ecumenical representatives to attend each group of sessions for a period of three years, with a right to speak (if called by the Chair of the debate by prior arrangement) but not to vote. The nine churches have recently been asked to consider who will represent them for the three-year period from July 2013 to February 2016, and there will be two new faces at this group of sessions. The position in relation to the nine churches is as follows: Revd Professor Paul Fiddes (Baptist Union) is continuing; Bishop Dr Joe Aldred (Black-led Churches) is continuing; Very Revd David Arnott (Moderator of the Church of Scotland General Assembly in 2011) is new; Revd Dr Roger Walton (Methodist Church) is continuing; Revd Jan Mullin (Moravian Church) is continuing; Very Revd Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou (Orthodox Churches) is new; Revd Robert Byrne (Roman Catholic Church) is continuing; Revd Graham Maskery (United Reformed Church) is continuing; His Grace Bishop Angaelos (Council of Oriental Orthodox Churches) is continuing. Other churches are invited to send Anglican and ecumenical guests to observe a particular July group of sessions on a rota basis. May we please welcome the two new members who have been elected to the General Synod since the November 2012 group of sessions. (Applause) In addition to our nine ecumenical representatives who are with us at each group of sessions, in July we always have some additional Anglican and ecumenical guests. Unlike the nine ecumenical representatives, they attend on one occasion only and do not have speaking rights. I will ask them to stand and invite members of Synod to greet each of them in turn as I introduce them. 2 Friday 5 July 2013 Address by the Bishop of Skálholt First, we welcome the Rt Revd Trevor Williams, Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe. (Applause) Bishop Trevor served as a curate in Maidenhead, St Andrew’s and St Mary’s in the diocese of Oxford from 1974 to 1977 before moving to Northern Ireland to become Assistant Chaplain at Queen’s University Belfast. From 1981 to 1988 he was a religious broadcasting producer for BBC Radio Ulster, following which he served as Rector of St John’s Newcastle, County Down. He served as leader of the Corrymeela Community, a Christian group committed to promoting peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland from 1994 to 2003. He was appointed Canon of St Patrick’s Cathedral in 2002 and in 2003 served as rector of Holy Trinity and St Silas with Immanuel in north Belfast in the diocese of Connor.
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