The College of Bishops and the House of Bishops met on Tuesday 17 January to discern a way forward for the Church of England on questions of identity, sexuality and marriage.

The House of Bishops met for the second meeting of 2023 by Zoom.

Read the Church of England's response to the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA) statement. 

Response to Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) recommendations from the National Safeguarding Steering Group, the House of Bishops and the Archbishops’ Council.

For the first time, under historic plans outlined today, same-sex couples will be able to come to church to give thanks for their civil marriage or civil partnership and receive God’s blessing.

The report follows an interim announcement in June 2022, which reported for the first time, and with great dismay, that the Church Commissioners’ endowment had historic links to transatlantic chattel slavery*

Statement from Archbishops' Council on the Independent Safeguarding Board and Christ Church review

Prayers asking for God’s blessing on same-sex couples as they give thanks for their civil marriage or civil partnership published

Bishop of Stepney to be new lead safeguarding bishop