Thinking Anglicans

General Synod to discuss Senior Leadership in the Church

on Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 2.02 pm by Simon Sarmiento
categorised as Church of England, General Synod

There is a Private Member’s Motion from the Reverend Canon Simon Killwick which will be debated on Saturday afternoon. The motion is:

‘That this Synod do take note of the report of the Faith and Order Commission Senior Leadership: a resource for reflection.’

Two synod papers are available:

• A Background Paper from the Revd. Canon Simon Killwick

• On FOAC Report on Senior Church Leadership A Background note written by the Bishop of Coventry and attached to it the original text of the FAOC report, which we reported on when it was first published, see here.

Fr. Killwick’s paper contains a very useful summary of the FAOC report as well as a history of the debate which caused it to be commissioned, and he also reports that:

…when it appeared, the Standing Committee of the House of Bishops decided that it should not be presented to Synod, according [to] the Bishop of Coventry (it was thrown ‘somewhere away beyond the boundary’). I am grateful to all those who signed my Private Member’s Motion, meaning that it has not taken too long [to] find this ‘rather interesting cricket ball’ again…

There are also several Questions which will be asked and answered on Friday on topics relating to the Senior Leadership activities emanating from the Green report, and we will publish this information as soon as it has been placed on the official CofE website (synod members all have electronic copies already).