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  2. Ecclesiastical polity - Wikipedia

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    Ecclesiastical polity is the government of a church. There are local ( congregational ) forms of organization as well as denominational . A church's polity may describe its ministerial offices or an authority structure between churches.

  3. File:Ecclesiastical Commissioners (Powers) Measure 1938 (UKCM ...

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  4. Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 - Wikipedia

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    The power to pass measures was originally granted to the Church Assembly, which was replaced by the General Synod of the Church of England in 1970 by the Synodical Government Measure 1969. [3] The act, usually called the "Enabling Act", [4] made possible the addition of a chamber of laymen to the chambers for bishops and clergy in the new ...

  5. List of Church of England measures - Wikipedia

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    A Measure passed by the National Assembly of the Church of England to confer upon the Ecclesiastical Commissioners power to establish and fix parochial tables of fees for the performance of church offices and matters incidental thereto: to amend the Glebe Lands Act, 1888, [s] and to make applicable to future sales under that Act the provisions ...

  6. Internal and external forum - Wikipedia

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    In the canon law of the Catholic Church, a distinction is made between the internal forum, where an act of governance is made without publicity, and the external forum, where the act is public and verifiable. In canon law, internal forum, the realm of conscience, is contrasted with the external or outward forum; thus, a marriage might be null ...

  7. Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure 1956 - Wikipedia

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    The Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure 1956 [1] (4 & 5 Eliz. 2. No. 3) is a measure passed by the Church Assembly of the Church of England that gave parish-level parochial church councils (PCCs) various miscellaneous powers such as framing an annual budget, power to make levy and collect a voluntary church rate, power [clarification needed] jointly with the minister to appoint and ...

  8. Canon law - Wikipedia

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    In Presbyterian and Reformed churches, canon law is known as "practice and procedure" or "church order", and includes the church's laws respecting its government, discipline, legal practice, and worship. Roman canon law had been criticized by the Presbyterians as early as 1572 in the Admonition to Parliament. The protest centered on the ...

  9. File:Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1841 (UKPGA Vict-4-5-39 ...

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