Handbook Concerns Committee #045-02-06-11 : Declaration of Principles
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- Date
- 2006 November 9-12
- Type
- Resolution 29-11-06
- Seconder
- Canon Robert Falby
- Text of motion
- That the Council of the General Synod recommend to the General Synod that it give first reading to a motion to delete sections 3, 4 and 5 from the Declaration of Principles and that the explanatory note accompanying the motion inform the members of the Synod that if and when the motion is adopted on second reading at the following session of the Synod complementary changes in the Constitution will then be proposed, viz. that
- - (1) section 3 of the Constitution of the General Synod be amended to read as follows:
- - 3. President and Chairperson of the General Synod
- - a) The President of the General Synod shall be the Primate of The Anglican Church of Canada, who shall be elected and hold office under, and have such privileges, powers, authority and duties as are defined by the Constitution, Canons and Rules enacted by the Synod.
- - b) In the absence of the Primate the archbishop senior by appointment or election or, if no archbishop is present, the bishop senior by appointment or election shall be and act as President of the Synod.
- - c) The President shall be chairperson of the General Synod.
- - d) In the absence, or at the request, of the President the Prolocutor shall be the chairperson of the Synod; and
- (- 2) that the Constitution of the General Synod be amended by adding a new section 6 as follows:
- - 6. A Unicameral Synod
- The three Orders shall sit together. CARRIED #29-11-06
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. General Synod. Constitution
- Anglican Church of Canada. General Synod. Declaration of Principles
- Anglican Church of Canada. Primate