Amendments to the Rules of Order and Procedure
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- Date
- 2010 June 3-11
- Source
- General Synod Minutes
- Record Type
- Act 16
- Mover
- Mr. David Jones
- Seconder
- The Rt. Rev. Susan Moxley
- Text
- That this General Synod amend the Rules of Order as follows:
- - 1. deleting section 17(d);
- - 2. amending section 18(b) to read as follows:
- -- b) The three Orders of Bishops, Clergy and Laity shall vote together unless a vote by Orders is required by the Constitution or called for pursuant to the Rules of Order. In order to be passed the motion shall require a majority of the votes cast, and abstentions shall not be counted in determining the majority.
- - 3. amending section 18(d) to read as follows:
- -- d) When voting by Orders, the vote shall be put to all members of General Synod regardless of the result in any order.
- - 4. adding section 20(a.1) to read as follows:
- --a.1) Ex officio and other non-diocesan members of General Synod shall vote with the diocese in which they are normally geographically resident for laity, or canonically resident, for clergy.
- and this resolution shall come into effect upon Second Reading being given to Resolution A019 (Act 13).
- Amendment
- Moved by: The Very Rev. Iain Luke
- Seconded by: Canon Terry Leer
- That Clause 4 be removed from the resolution.
- Motion to table
- Moved by: Mr. James Sweeney [sic i.e. Sweeny]
- That the motion be tabled.
- There being no seconder for the Motion to Table, consideration of the amendment continued.
- Motion to put the question.
- Moved by: The Rt. Rev. Michael Ingham
- Seconded by: The Rt. Rev. James Cowan
- That the question be put. CARRIED
- Vote on the amendment DEFEATED
- Vote on the motion CARRIED IN ALL ORDERS Act 16
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. General Synod. Rules of Order and Procedure
- Anglican Church of Canada. General Synod - Rules and practice
The Anglican Communion
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- Date
- 2010 January 7-9
- Source
- House of Bishops. Minutes
- Record Type
- Resolution 001-01-10
- Mover
- Bishop [George] Bruce
- Seconder
- Archbishop Colin Johnson
- Prologue
- Archbishop Hiltz shared some of the observations made by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Pastoral Visitors about their time with the Canadian bishops.
- Bishop Bruce distributed a report from the Anglican Communion Working Group. He reviewed it. Discussion followed.
- Text
- “This House of Bishops recommend to the Council of General Synod that the final text of ‘The Covenant for the Anglican Communion’ be presented to General Synod 2010 for consideration by The Anglican Church of Canada.”
- CARRIED HB Res-001-01-10
Reflection on the National Theological Education Gathering
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- Date
- 2010 January 7-9
- Source
- House of Bishops. Minutes
- Record Type
- Resolution 002-01-10
- Mover
- Bishop John Chapman
- Seconder
- Bishop Bob Bennett
- Prologue
- Bishop Chapman, chair of the Theological Education Working Group lead the session about the National Theological Education Gathering that had preceded the House of Bishops’ meeting. The conference on theological education was held from January 5 to (the afternoon of) January 7 at Manoir d’Youville in Chateuaguay, Quebec. He told the bishops that the planning committee was in the midst of drafting a report from the conference. The final report will be sent to the Faith, Worship and Ministry Committee, in March to the Council of General Synod and in June to General Synod. Bishop Chapman shared a few of the points and recommendations that would be in the final report. They included:
- - A request to the Primate to establish a Commission on Theological Education (transmiteral, transformation and education)
- - A recommendation for consideration to be given to the idea of having a national faculty
- - A recommendation that there should be some method of having a national scholarship for theological education
- - A suggestion that theological education should be seen as one of the General Synod’s priorities
- - A request from the Advisory Committee on Postulants for Ordination (ACPO) Secretaries to have a task force established to update the ACPO Handbook
- Text
- “Be it resolved that the House of Bishops create a task force to update the Advisory Committee on Postulants for Ordination (ACPO) Handbook and report back to the House of Bishops’ meeting in October 2010.”
- CARRIED HB Res-002-01-10
- Notes
- Discussion followed. It was noted that the Commission on Theological Education will have a lot of work to do. The Primate was asked to make the people he appointed to the commission aware that it would require a heavy time commitment of them.
- Subjects
- National Conference on Theological Education (1st : 2010 : Chateauguay, Que.)
- Anglican Church of Canada. Theological Education Working Group
- Theological education - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada. Advisory Committee on Postulants for Ordination (ACPO)