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The General Synod is the tricameral deliberative and legislative organ of the Church of England. The synod was instituted in 1970, replacing the Church Assembly , and is the culmination of a process of rediscovering self-government for the Church of England that had started in the 1850s.
The Lambeth Conference convenes as the Archbishop of Canterbury summons an assembly of Anglican bishops every ten years. The first took place at Lambeth in 1867.. As regional and national churches freely associate with the Anglican Communion, the Conferences serve a collaborative and consultative function, expressing "the mind of the communion" on issues of the day. [1]
Besides providing administrative offices for the Church Commissioners, the Archbishops' Council and the Church of England Pensions Board, and a chamber for the General Synod, the building also provided a meeting place for the Parliament of the United Kingdom during World War II, and for some of the organs of the newly formed United Nations ...
The Archbishop of York acknowledged that ‘what’s before us isn’t what everyone wants, it’s not really what anyone wants’.
The General Synod of the Church of England, which was established in 1970 replacing the Church Assembly, is the legislative body of the Church of England. The equivalent In the Episcopal Church in the United States is the General Convention. Several other churches in the Anglican Communion also have General Synods: Anglican Church of Australia
The Convocations of Canterbury and York are the synodical assemblies of the bishops and clergy of each of the two provinces which comprise the Church of England.Their origins go back to the ecclesiastical reorganisation carried out under Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury (668–690) and the establishment of a separate northern province in 733.
Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell is the "wrong person" to bring much-needed reform to the Church of England, the Bishop of Newcastle has told the BBC. ... Mr Cottrell will lead a meeting of the ...
Church of England; Abbreviation: C of E ... The General Synod of the Church of England is the legislative body ... a meeting of the Bishops of the Church of England ...