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General Synod - Summary of business conducted on Tuesday 7th February 2012 PM

DRAFT BISHOPS AND PRIESTS (CONSECRATION AND ORDINATION OF WOMEN) MEASURE:

DRAFT CODE OF PRACTICE (GS Misc 1007)

The Rt Revd Nigel Stock (Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and Chair of the Working Group on an Illustrative Draft Code of Practice) gave a presentation on the Draft Code of Practice under SO 97 and took questions.

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LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS

THE ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICES (TERMS OF SERVICE)

(CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ORDER 2012 (GS 1858)

Order made under section 11 of the Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Measure 2009

The Bishop of Ripon & Leeds moved:

'That the Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Consequential Provisions) Order 2012 be considered.'

Following debate, the motion was carried.

Mr Clive Scowen (London) moved an amendment to the Order that was carried and the Bishop of Ripon & Leeds (the Rt Revd John Packer) then moved:

 'That the Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Consequential Provisions) Order 2012 be approved.'

The motion was carried unamended

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DIOCESAN SYNOD MOTION

APPOINTMENT OF ARCHDEACONS (GS 1846A and GS 1846B)

The Revd Alastair Cutting moved on behalf of the Chichester Diocesan Synod:

'That this Synod request that Canon C 22.1 be amended to read "No person shall be capable of receiving the appointment of archdeacon unless he has been six years complete in holy orders at the time of appointment".'

Following debate, the motion was lost in a vote by houses, the voting being:

Bishops          9 for    21 against      0 abstentions

Clergy             31 for  118 against    1 abstention

Laity                53 for  84 against      9 abstentions

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ANGLICAN ALLIANCE FOR RELIEF, DEVELOPMENT AND ADVOCACY

Mrs Sally Keeble (Director of the Anglican Alliance for Relief, Development and Advocacy) gave a presentation on the Alliance under SO 97 and took questions.

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