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General Synod - Summary of Business Conducted on Thursday 14th February 2008 AM

14 February 2008

 

MORNING WORSHIP

 

CROWN APPOINTMENTS

Following debate, the Archbishop of Canterbury moved a motion to approve the proposals set out in the final paragraph of GS 1680 (linked to above). The motion was carried by 290 votes to 16 (with 16 abstentions).

 

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Following debate, Mr Anthony Archer (St Albans) moved the following motion, which was lost by 142 votes to 107 (with 20 recorded abstentions).

'That this Synod, as part of the discussions necessary to implement the proposals set out in the final paragraph of GS1680, invite the Government to agree that Standing Orders be amended so that arrangements for the appointment of a person to preside at meetings of the Crown Nominations Commission to consider a vacancy of the Archbishopric of Canterbury be varied so that such appointment would in future be made in the same way as applies for a vacancy of the Archbishopric of York.'

 

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GROWING TOGETHER IN UNITY AND MISSION: Report from the Internation Anglican - Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission

Following debate, the Bishop of Chichester moved the following amended motion, which was carried by the Synod by 258 votes to 10 (with 5 recorded abstentions).

'That this Synod, welcoming the work that has been done towards the Agreed Statement of the International Anglican - Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission and endorsing its stated aim of closer collaboration in unity and mission between our two communions:

(a) note the assessment of the Agreed Statement in GS 1673 as a contribution to the further development of the text and endorse the concerns of the Faith and Order Advisory Group set out in section 4 of GS 1673;

(b) affirm the further growing together in unity and mission will depend on common witness and the exchange of spiritual gifts, as well as clarity between areas where doctrinal agreement has been achieved and areas that require further work; and

(c) encourage Anglicans to implement, with Roman Catholics, the practical initiatives for bishops and people in Part 2 of the Statement;

(d) request that debates take place in Synod on all the documents listed in Appendix 2, Second Phase in Growing Together in Unity and Mission as the next stage in the process.'

 

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