The outline agenda for the General Synod meeting at York in July is now available from this page, as a PDF file. The information is copied below the fold.
GENERAL SYNOD: JULY 2011 Timetable
Friday 8 July
2.30 p.m. Meeting of the House of Clergy
4.30 p.m. Introductions, Presentations and Welcome to Guests
Address by Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania on behalf of the ecumenical guests
Progress of Measures and Statutory Instruments
Business Committee report
Dates of groups of sessions in 2013
Appointments to the Archbishops’ Council
Legal Advisory Commission constitution
6.20 p.m. Evening Worship
from 6.30 p.m. Dinner
8.30 p.m. Questions
Saturday 9 July
9.30 a.m. Presidential Address (by the Archbishop of Canterbury)
Rest of the morning: reflection, discussion and worship in small groups
from 1.00 p.m. Lunch
2.30 p.m. Legislative Business
6.20 p.m. Evening Worship
from 6.30 p.m. Dinner
8.30 p.m. Private Member’s Motion: Mission Action Planning in the Church of England
Sunday 10 July
10.00 a.m. Holy Communion in York Minster
2.30 p.m. Higher Education Funding Changes
Anglican-Methodist Covenant
Bradford Diocesan Synod Motion: Admission of Baptised Adults to Communion
6.20 p.m. Evening Worship
from 6.30 p.m. Dinner
8.30 p.m. Annual Report of the Audit Committee
Annual Report of the Archbishops’ Council
Monday 11 July
9.30 a.m. Morning Worship
Confirmation of the Appointment of the Chair of the Business Committee
Legislative Business
Liturgical Business: Additional Eucharistic Prayers: First Consideration
London DSM: House of Laity elections
1.00 p.m. Lunch
2.30 p.m. Unfinished Business: A Pastoral and Missional Approach for the Next
Decade: A report by the Committee for Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns
Budget of the Archbishops’ Council
Presence and Engagement: Inter faith issues
6.20 p.m. Evening Worship
from 6.30 p.m. Dinner
8.30 p.m. Conversations with the United Reformed Church
Tuesday 12 July
9.30 a.m. Morning Worship
Christians in the Holy Land: Presidential Statement by the Archbishop of Canterbury
Church Commissioners’ Annual Report
The Church and Education: Into the Next 200 Years
12.30 p.m. Prorogation
When do Rowan Williams and John Sentamu take a bathroom break to make bishops?
And make grownups cry-I’d make a special trip to see that!
The meeting of the house of clergy will discuss, I believe, the formation of a professional association of church of england clergy. This promises to be a quiet revolution: no red flags flying, no political agenda, no buying-in to any perceived trade union agenda, but an opportunity for clergy to set aside their differences and to counter the juridical nature of the clergy discipline measure and the terms of service through an association of very different minded clergy.
Watch that space.
What, I wonder, do the two Primates of the Church of England have up their capacious chimere sleeves for this gathering of Laity, Clergy and Bishops? What are they ready to veto on this occasion.
Is the matter of Women Bishops to be gotten over in a hurry, behind the scenes or in the gentlemen’s toilets? Or will it simply not be discussed?