NEWS / Synod voted today to take note of the report: Guidelines for the Professional Conduct of the Clergy. These are not a legal code but a set of draft guidelines, commended by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, describing what is desirable in the professional conduct of clergy.

Guidelines for the Professional Conduct of the Clergy.

New E&D Webinar: 2^nd February 2021 10-11 am, Celebrating Love and Life: Weddings and Christenings in 2021

Latest worshipping and visitor data collected from England’s 42 cathedrals and Westminster Abbey during 2021 published

Guidance and advice on COVID-19, also known as Coronavirus, for churches and parishes.

Recording your wedding is a wonderful way to preserve the memories of your special day – it is valuable to be able to show it to others and also to see it again over the years to come.

Our heartfelt thanks go to all the couples and their photographers who have kindly shared their wedding pictures with us. 

The General Synod has welcomed a Church of England report paving the way for an overhaul of clergy discipline with a new system for the investigation and disposal of a range of complaints.

Clergy are being advised not to share the chalice and to encourage worshippers not to shake hands during the ‘Sign of the Peace’ in services, as part of updated guidance on coronavirus issued by the Church of England.

New stats from the Church of England show a sharp rise in church attendance figures in 2021 from 2020, though Covid continued to have a marked impact.