Diocese of Chelmsford The Chelmsford File Updated August 2009 Contents Section A Episcopal Oversight Episcopal Oversight in the Chelmsford Diocese........................................................................ A1 Extended Episcopal Oversight ........................................................................................................ A2 The Chancellor and the Diocesan Registrar ............................................................................... A3 Clergy Discipline Measure 2003..................................................................................................... A4 The Archdeacons ............................................................................................................... ................ A5 Section B The Cathedral The Cathedral ....................................................................................................................................................B1 The Cathedral and its work ............................................................................................................ B2 The Cathedral - Constitution and Statutes ................................................................................. B3 Cathedral Services ............................................................................................................................. B4 Friends of the Cathedral and Visiting Parties .............................................................................. B5 Section C Worship and Pastoralia Public Worship in the Church of England .................................................................................. C1 Christian Initiation ............................................................................................................................ C2 Holy Communion .............................................................................................................................. C3.1 Admission of Baptised Persons to Holy Communion before Confirmation ....................... C3.2 Marriage Marriage – Legal Requirements ..................................................................................................... C4.1 Marriage in Church of Divorced Persons ................................................................................... C4.2 Solemnisation of Marriage by Deacons......................................................................................... C4.3 Ministry of Healing........................................................................................................... .................. C5 Funerals ..................................................................................................................... ................ C6 Written Material and Sound Recordings Copyright: Written Material and Sound/Video Recordings ................................................... C7 Section D Mission Guiding Principles for our Response to God’s Mission ............................................................ D1 World Church ............................................................................................................................. ....... D2 Ecumenical Relations – General Guidance .................................................................................. D3 Local Ecumenical Relations .............................................................................................................. D4 National and County Ecumenical Structures .............................................................................. D5 Relations with other Faiths................................................................................................... ........... D6 Diocesan Children’s Service............................................................................................................ D7 Section E Ministry Ministry as Partnership ..................................................................................................................... E1.1 The Preaching Ministry ....................................................................................................... ............. E1.2 Working Time Regulations: Guidance Notes ............................................................................. E1.3 Readers: Ministry, Selection, Training and Support .................................................................. E2.1 Parish Welcome to a Reader .......................................................................................................... E2.2 Ordinands: Recruitment, Selection, Training and Support ...........................................................E3 Continuing Ministerial Support and Education Episcopal and Ministerial Development Reviews ....................................................................... E4.1 Continuing Ministerial Education Years 1 - 4.............................................................................. E4.2 Continuing Ministerial Education .............................................................................................................E4.3 Clergy Sabbaticals ...........................................................................................................................................E4.4 Ministry Consultancy .....................................................................................................................................E4.5 Assistant Curates ........................................................................................................... ................. E5 Self-Supporting Ministry ...............................................................................................................................E6 Patterns of Parish Ministry Clergy in Multiple Benefices .................................................................................................. .......... E7.1 Team and Group Ministries..................................................................................................... ........ E7.2 Priests (Ordination of Women) Measure 1993 and Episcopal Act of Synod 1994 .......................................................................................................................E7.3 Chaplaincies Hospital Chaplains ............................................................................................................ ................. E8.1 Industrial Chaplaincy ......................................................................................................................... E8.2 Ministry Among Deaf and Deafblind ............................................................................................. E8.3 Clergy Benefits Stipends, Fees, Expenses and Other Benefits ............................................................................ E9.1 Arrangements for Occasional Services......................................................................................... E9.2 Leave, Sickness and Locum Arrangements ................................................................................. E9.3 Pastoral Care and Counselling................................................................................................. ....... E9.4 Clergy Housing ............................................................................................................... ................... E10.1 Quality Standard Guide for Parsonage Houses .......................................................................... E10.2 Central Heating Boiler Maintenance ............................................................................................ E10.3 Retirement Planning .......................................................................................................................... E11.1 Retirement – Pensions and Housing ............................................................................................ E11.2 Clergy Widows and Widowers ................................................................................................................E12 The Essex Clergy Charity .............................................................................................................................E13 The Role of the Bishop of Chelmsford’s Adviser for Women’s Ministry ............................ E14 Section F Church Buildings, Property & Parochial Administration Parochial Church Councils ..................................................................................................... ......... F1 Churchwardens and Sidespersons ................................................................................................. F2 Faculty Jurisdiction and Applications ............................................................................................ F3.1 De Minimis ................................................................................................................... ...................... F3.2 Parish Records ............................................................................................................... .................... F4 Church Buildings Quinquennial Inspection of Churches........................................................................................... F5.1 Memorial Tablets in Churches........................................................................................................ F5.2 Grant Making Bodies .....................................................................................................................................F5.3 Churchyards Gravespace Reservations in a Churchyard