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GENERAL SYNOD

July 2009 Group of Sessions

Timetable

Sitting hours: 9.15 am -1 pm, 2.30 pm-6.15 pm and 8.30 pm-10pm (except where otherwise stated)

Friday, 10 July

3.30 pm Prayers, introductions, welcomes, progress of legislation; greeting on behalf of the

ecumenical guests

Business Committee Report

Appointments to Archbishops’ Council and of Chair of Audit Committee

Christian Stewardship: Report from the National Stewardship Committee

Introduction to group work: Paper from the Council for Christian Unity/Faith and

Order Advisory Group on the ARCIC report Life in Christ

8.30 pm Questions

Saturday, 11 July

9.00 am Group work (including prayer)

10.15 am Faithful Cities: Urban Life and Faith: presentation

Legislative Business:

Amending Canon No 28

Vacancies in Suffragan Sees and Other Ecclesiastical Offices Measure

Crown Benefices (Parish Representatives) Measure

Ecclesiastical Fees (Amendment) Measure

2.30 pm Clergy Pensions: presentation

Archbishops’ Council’s Spending Priorities 2010-2015

Archbishops’ Council’s Budget

Liturgical Business: Additional Weekday Lectionary and Amendments to Calendar,

Lectionary and Collects

8.30 pm Archbishops’ Council’s Annual Report

Church Commissioners’ Annual Report: presentation

Sunday, 12 July

2.30 pm Opening Doors: Ministry with People with Learning Disabilities: Report from the

Committee for Ministry of and Among Deaf and Disabled People and Mission and

Public Affairs Division

Review of Constitutions

Episcopal and Senior Church Appointments: Bradford Diocesan Synod Motion

8.30 pm Being Adult about Childhood: A Consideration of the Good Childhood Inquiry:

Report by the Children’s Society and Mission and Public Affairs Division

Monday, 13 July

9.15 am Prayers

Anglican Communion: an update, by the Archbishop of Canterbury

Legislative Business:

Changes to the Rules of the Church of England Funded Pensions Scheme and

the Past Service Scheme

Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Regulations

Two Consolidation Measures (if debated)

Church Representation Rules (Amendment) Resolution 2009 and

Clergy Representation Rules (Amendment) Resolution 2009

Usual Fees Orders (if debated)

2.30 pm Clergy Discipline: London Diocesan Synod Motion (and Chelmsford Diocesan

Synod Motion)

Farewells

4.45 pm Prorogation

Contingency Business: Chelmsford DSM: Confidence in the Bible