The Liturgical Advisory Committee launched new resources aimed at helping children to become more rooted in the life of their local church at General Synod today (Friday May 9).
The Commission for Christian Unity and Dialogue is “a vine with many branches reaching out to be with, engage, promote, support, maintain, encourage and build up unity within the wider body of the Church”. So said the proposer of the Commission’s report, Canon Stephen Fielding, to General Synod today (Friday May 9).
The Church of Ireland has been asked to explore the possibility of allowing its clergy to solemnise marriages in secular venues.
Members of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland today (Friday May 9) have passed a motion to explore the use of electronic voting at their meetings
A Bill which, if enacted, will see two separate forms of declaration for members seeking to be registered on the register of vestry members of a parish replaced with a single form was presented at General Synod in Naas today (Friday May 9).
A Bill which proposes an increase in the number of members co–opted onto the Representative Church Body, from 11 to 18 passed its initial stages at General Synod today (Friday May 9).
A Bill which seeks to correct and anomaly which has arisen in the calculation of late retirement pensions of clergy was presented at General Synod in Naas today (Friday May 9). Bill No 6 notes that a small number of members of the Church of Ireland Clergy Pensions Fund who had reached the normal retirement age (NRA) before 1st January 2024, but had not yet retired by that date, have not benefitted from recent increases to pensionable stipend or to pensions in payment. The proposed amendment to the Constitution will lead to late retirement pensions being calculated by using pensionable stipend at the date of retirement.
This year’s Church of Ireland Communications Competition, leading up to General Synod, celebrated the wide range of print media produced by church communities and organisations, to serve parishioners and reach out more widely to our neighbours.
A Bill which proposes updates to the arrangement for glebes was presented at General Synod today (Friday May 9). At present, an incumbent must sign an acknowledgement or agreement ‘in reference to the glebe appropriated for that incumbent’s occupation or residence’ within two months of his or her institution or licensing. There is currently no constitutional requirement to return the signed copy of the agreement.
A Bill dealing with governance arrangements for Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, to prepare the Cathedral for its incorporation as a Company Limited by Guarantee passed its initial stages at General Synod in Naas today (Friday May 9).