The spring group of sessions of the General Synod will take place online on Friday April 23 and Saturday 24.

A detailed agenda and papers for the first meeting of the 11th General Synod of the Church of England next month have been published.

The first ad campaign to encourage people to stand for election to the General Synod has been launched in a drive to attract a broad range of voices to the Church of England’s national decision-making body.  

Meeting moved to London after the University of York cancels summer events on campus.

His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex will attend the opening session of the 11th General Synod of the Church of England in London next week, on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen.

The Church of England’s National Investing Bodies (NIBs) today updated General Synod on their progress against climate change measures agreed in July 2018. The update was presented by Loretta Minghella, First Church Estates Commissioner, and Clive Mather, Chair of the Church of England Pensions Board.

First full in-person meeting of the Church of England’s General Synod for 18 months to take place at Church House, Westminster, from Friday July 9 to Tuesday July 13

Young people, aged between 12 and 17, from across England led and engaged in discussions with members of the General Synod ahead of the first full in-person meeting since before the pandemic. 

The Bishop of Leeds, Nick Baines, has told General Synod that “human dignity and flourishing is diminished” when religious believers and atheists are persecuted.

The agenda and background papers for the July 2021 group of sessions of General Synod have been published.