Some functionality has been disabled
To experience the best that the Church of England website has to offer, you need to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings. Turnon.js provides guidance on how to activate JavaScript for your particular browser.
A Christian presence in every community
13988 results found for 'more media centre news house bishops pastoral letter 2015 general election'
The House of Bishops of the Church of England have today expressed the hope for political parties to discern "a fresh moral vision of the kind of country we want to be" ahead of the General Election in May of this year.
NEWS / Further results from the elections for female representatives to attend the House of Bishops have been announced. At its meeting of 7 February 2013 the House of Bishops decided that eight senior women clergy, elected regionally, will participate in all meetings of the House until such time as there are six female Bishops who will sit as of right.
To contact the press office call 0207 898 1326 (monitored inside and outside office hours)
or email [email protected] (routinely monitored during office hours)
NEWS / The results of the first elections for female representatives to attend the House of Bishops have been announced.
NEWS / Following their meeting on February 13th 2014 the House of Bishops of the Church of England have today issued a statement of Pastoral Guidance on Same Sex Marriage.
Three clergy from UK Minority Ethnic/Global Majority Heritage backgrounds have been elected to serve on the House of Bishops as part of action towards making the leadership of the Church of England more representative, it was announced today.
Christians should take the opportunity to press General Election candidates on what they will do to support refugees, the Bishop of Durham has said.
The Bishop of Kensington, Dr Graham Tomlin, to step down in August to lead the new Centre for Cultural Witness - a project to underpin the Church’s work of being a Christian presence in every community
All relevant information, documents and papers for the February 2015 Group of Sessions.
A fringe meeting at General Synod looked at ecumenical projects including hustings and voter registration.