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Synodality in Anglicanism: episcopacy, clergy, laity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2025

Stephen Coleman
Stephen Coleman*
Affiliation:
Diocese of London, London, UK
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Email: ColemanSP@cardiff.ac.uk
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Abstract

Articles in this issue of the Journal have considered the various levels of church government at the universal, the regional, the local (diocesan), and the parochial levels. The mechanical operations of each synodical body has been considered, with notions of subsidiarity, authority and participation key. This article takes a step back and looks at the classes of individuals concerned in ecclesial life: bishops, (other) clergy, and laity, and considers how they participate in synodical ecclesial life by virtue of either purely their ecclesial life (as a bishop, a priest or deacon, or as a member of the laity), or through the role they exercise/office they hold as a member of that ecclesial class.

Keywords

Anglican Communionsynodical government
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , May 2025 , pp. 235 - 243
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© Ecclesiastical Law Society 2025

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References

1 Canons of the Church of England (here after ‘Canon’) C 18(1). See also Principle 37(1).

2 Canon C20 and PCLCCA 38.

3 See Canon H3, and M Hill, Ecclesiastical Law, 4th edn (Oxford, 2018), 27.

4 Constitution of the Church in Wales II.2 and II.4.

5 Canon 1.9 of the Episcopal Church of the USA.

6 Constitution of the Church in Wales II.56.

7 Church of England Church Representation Rules (hereafter ‘CRR’) r 30.

8 See Constitution of the Church in Wales IV.3. and the Anglican Church of Japan Canon X Article 103.

9 Canon C22.

10 Church of Southern Africa Canon 28.5

11 See Canon H2.

12 Constitution of the Church of Papua New Guinea Article 6:1; the Constitution of the Church of South East Asia Article VII(b)(iii).

13 CRR r 31.

14 Church in Wales Constitution VI 24(1).

15 CRR r M15.

16 CRR r M19.

17 CRR r 50.

18 CRR rr 51 and 54.

19 CRR rr 47 and 48.

20 Constitution of the Church of the West Indies Article 3:2.

21 Constitution of the Church of New Zealand C.4.

22 CRR rr 32 and 33.

23 CRR rr 35 and 36.

24 CRR r M15.

25 CRR r M15.

26 Diocese of Western New York Canon 13.

27 Canon C8.

28 Canon C24.

29 Canon C12.