Report to the General Synod from a working group chaired by the Bishop of Guildford
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- Publication Date
- c2006
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BX 5176 G84 2006
- Corporate Author
- Church of England. House of Bishops' Women Bishops Group
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Church House Publishing
- Publication Date
- c2006
- Physical Description
- 57 p. ; 29.5 x 21 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "GS 1605".
- Cover title.
- "Published by the General Synod of the Church of England and on sale at the Church House Bookshop, 31 Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BN. Copyright The Archbishops' Council 2006".
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Report of the Women Bishops Group of the House of Bishops, chaired by the Rt. Rev. Christopher Hill, Bishop of Guildford.
- "In January 2005 the House of Bishops discussed the recently published report `Women Bishops in the Church of England' (the `Rochester report') and decided to establish a working group to look further at the options for facilitating the consecration of women as bishops in the Church of England. The July Synod motion invited the House to secure the completion of this assessment in January 2006. .... As will be clear from what follows, the group was firmly of the view that, of the options identified, their preference was for a procedure that offered structural provision for the future of those who, for a variety of reasons, were conscience-bound to dissent from any legislation in favour of women bishops. The form of this structural provision is set out as a scheme of `Transferred Episcopal Arrangements' (TEA), which would in due course replace all present provisions of the existing legislation and the Act of Synod. ..... There continues to be a range of views within the House itself, as within the Synod and the wider Church, about whether, and if so how, women should be admitted to the episcopate. The House is not of one mind about the working group's preferred option. A majority of us do, however, believe that an approach along the lines of TEA could help maintain the highest possible degree of communion within the Church of England in the event that women be admitted to the episcopate In our view, therefore, it merits further exploration before the basis on which any legislation is prepared is determined". -- Foreword.
- Contents: Foreword dated January 2006 / Rowan Cantuar [i.e. Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury] and Sentamu Ebor [i.e. Archbishop John Sentamu of York] -- Introduction -- Statement of Significance and of Need -- The Options -- The Office of Archbishop -- Getting There -- Transitional and Financial Arrangements -- Summary of Principal Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Transferred Episcopal Arrangements : An Illustrative Summary of Possible Provisions -- Appendix 2: Sacramental Assurance : Note by the Chairman / Christopher Hill -- Appendix 3: The Oath of Obedience : Note by the Legal Adviser / Stephen Slack -- Appendix 4: Juridical Implications of a Third Province : Note by the Chairman / Christopher Hill -- Appendix 5: Non Territorial Oversight and Cultural Episcopacy : Note by the Chairman / Christopher Hill -- Appendix 6: Peculiars : Note by the Chairman / Christopher Hill -- Appendix 7: Ordination of Women Resolutions and Petitions : 1999 and 2004.
- Series
- GS 1605
- Added Entry
- Hill, Christopher (Christopher John), 1945-
- Guildford Report
- Slack, Stephen, 1954-
- Subjects
- Women bishops - Church of England
- Theology, Doctrinal - Episcopacy
- Church of England - Bishops
- Ordination of women - Church of England
- Consecration of bishops - Church of England
- Episcopacy - Church of England
- Church of England. Archbishop of Canterbury - Office
- Transferred Episcopal Arrangements
- Alternative episcopal oversight - Church of England
- Church of England - Parties and movements
- ISBN
- 1-00000705-7
- Call Number
- BX 5176 G84 2006
- Copies
- 2 copies
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)