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Report of the Women Bishops Legislative Drafting Group (PDF, Word and Excel Documents)

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Gender Recognition Act

Marriage in Church after Divorce (updated February 2003)

Dioceses and Pastoral Measure Review

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Paper Title Size
A Place of Refuge (223kb)
Clergy stipends, pensions and other financial issues (429kb)
Domestic Abuse (459kb)
ORB Survey extract (246kb)
Mission Shaped Church (996kb)
Promoting a Safe Church (312kb)
Protecting all God's children (175kb)
Provisional Attendance Statistics for 2002 (289kb)
Provisional Statistics for 2002 (6kb)
Church Statistics 2001 (2.6mb)
Church Statistics 2000 (2.7mb)
Church Statistics/Statistics for Mission - Explanation
Ethos audit for Christian organisations from Faithworks and the Archbishops' Council (207kb)
Ethos audit for Churches and Christian projects from Faithworks and the Archbishops' Council (186kb)
The Charities Act 1993 and the PCC - 2nd Edition Full version (340kb)
By chapter
Trade and Justice (1322kb)
Women Bishops in the Church of England? - complete text (785kb)
Women Bishops in the Church of England? - Chapters 1 to 4 (399kb)
Women Bishops in the Church of England? - Chapters 5 to 8 (317kb)
Women Bishops in the Church of England? - Appendices and Index (260kb)
Women Bishops - Guide (230kb)
Worship Survey Table (204kb)
Synod Papers
Paths to Unity (470kb)
Rethinking Sentencing (291kb)

(Next section are Word Documents - Require Microsoft Word)

Paper Title Size
Church of England response to draft Anglican Covenant - December 2007 (RTF format) (size: 130k)
Church of England response to HM Treasury's Consultation on Gift Aid (size: 63k)
Church of England response on BBC Charter Review White Paper - May 2006 (size: 63k)
Church of England response to the Charity Commission Consultation on the Draft Supplementary Guidance on Public Benefit and the Advancement of Religion. (size: 59k)
Archbishops' Council's response to the Charity Commission consultation on Draft Public Benefit Guidance (size: 41k)
Archbishops' Council's response to the Government's consultation paper: "Private Action, Public Benefit" (size: 38k)
Civil Partnership (size: 35k)
Communications Review and Annexes (size: 151k)
Conference on Peace Ethics (RTF format) (size: 11,048k)
Consultation on Crown Appointments (size: 84kb)
Documentary Heritage Report (size: 131k)
Equality and Diversity - Church of England Response to DTI Consultation Document (size: 40k)
Guidance for Christian organisations and churches from the Archbishops' Council (size: 60k)
Fairness for All: A New Commission for Equality and Human Rights - Archbishop's Council response to DTI consultation document (size: 14k)
Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the provision of Goods and Services - Archbishops' Council response to DTI consultation document (size: 77k)
Guidelines in the event of War (size: 134k)
House of Bishops sets high threshold for Iraqi war (size: 164k)
A Submission by the Church of England's Public Affairs Unit to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee's Inquiry into the Decision to go to War in Iraq (size: 132k)
The Church of England's response to A Framework for Fairness: Proposals for a Single Equality Bill for Great Britain (size: 58.2k)
A submission by the Archbishops' Council to the Joint Committee on Human Rights Inquiry into the meaning of 'Public Authority' (size: 63.5k)
Pastoral Measure 1983 (size: 552k)
Opinion by Legal Advisory Commission - Effect of Acts by Women Bishops of Churches in Communion with the Church of England
Introduction (size: 20k)
Document (size: 83k)
Full version of Code of Practice (size: 2.1MB)
Code in ZIP format (size: 501k)
Edited version of Code (size: 329k)

This version is recommended reading for members of Diocesan Pastoral Committees as it concentrates on the diocesan consultation stage and is prefaced by an introductory talk given to a Diocesan Pastoral Committee.

The following schedule and flowchart from the Code may be downloaded as separate WORD documents by clicking on the links below:

What is possible by scheme or order for pastoral reorganisation matters

A schedule of the most common types of pastoral reorganisation matters showing which have to be carried out by pastoral scheme and which can be carried out by the more streamlined procedure of pastoral order (size: 63k).

Progress of a pastoral scheme or order

A flowchart outlining the procedures for pastoral reorganisation, starting with the diocesan consultative role and including that of the Church Commissioners in considering representations (size: 40k).

 

Resourcing Mission Group Interim Report   (RTF)

   Annex A   (RTF)

   Annex B   (RTF)

   Annex C   (RTF)

   Annex D   (RTF)

   Annex E   (Excel)

 

Resourcing Mission Group Report in final form   (Word)

   Annex A   (Word)

   Annex B   (Word)

   Annex C   (Word)

   Annex D   (Excel)

 

Strategic Review of See Houses