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ELECTORAL COLLEGE FOR DUBLIN AND GLENDALOUGH
The Church of Ireland Episcopal Electoral College will meet in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin on Thursday, 29 August 2002 to elect a new Archbishop of Dublin in succession to Archbishop Walton Empey who retired in July.
The Province of Dublin has five dioceses – Dublin and Glendalough; Meath and Kildare; Cashel and Waterford; Cork, Cloyne and Ross; Limerick and Killaloe.
The Electoral College will be composed of representatives of each of the dioceses as follows: Dublin and Glendalough will be represented by 12 clerical and 12 lay people and each of the other four dioceses will have three clerical and three lay representatives.
The president of the College is the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, and he is accompanied by three bishops – two from the Province of Dublin and one from the Province of Armagh. This makes a grand total of 52 people to elect the new archbishop.
Any member of the College may propose a bishop or priest, of not less than 30 years of age, for consideration by the College. Clerical and lay votes are counted separately; the bishops, if they wish to vote, voting with the clergy. To be elected a candidate must gain two-thirds of the votes of both the clerical and lay members.
The College is closed to non-electors and media. The result could be known by around 4pm.
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