Marriage and Divorce
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- Date
- 1949 September
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Type
- Resolution
- Mover
- Rev. Canon W.H.H. Crump
- Seconder
- Rev. Canon E.H. Maddocks
- Prologue
- The following memorial from the Diocese of Calgary was considered.
- "That this Synod asks the General Synod to revise its Canon on Marriage and Divorce by legislating to permit the innocent party to a divorce, to re-marry and have the benefit of all the services and sacraments of the Church and in this case immediately to set up Church Courts to decide which (if either) is the innocent party."
- Text of motion
- That this Synod concur in the memorial.
- The motion was put to vote and CARRIED 92 to 76. Message L-30A.
- Subjects
- Marriage - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Divorce - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Remarriage - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church of England in Canada. Diocese of Calgary