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- A Deanery is a grouping of parishes within a particular area of a Diocese. Within the Diocese of Durham, there are 14 of them. Each Deanery is led by an ordained Area Dean and a Lay Chair. Clergy who hold the Bishop's Licence regularly meet together in a Deanery Chapter, which allows them to support and pray for each other.
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Jun 12, 2012 · The deanery is a virtual organisation whose primary role is to facilitate and support educational governance. Deaneries have a regional footprint that encompasses several cities and hospitals as well as medical schools and universities, because medical education is delivered through a variety of education providers.
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What is a Deanery Synod? A Deanery Synod serves a deanery, or local group of parishes. It is a body which is representative and deliberative, a body which appoints and elects, which may pass motions to its Diocesan Synod, which may receive actions from Diocesan Synod or General Synod and may provide a forum for its members and others to act.
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The Church of England believes in the “threefold order of ministry”, which means there are three types of clergy: deacons, priests and bishops. You can be a priest only once you have been ordained a deacon, and you can only become a bishop only if you have been ordained a priest. Deacons are the first rung on the ladder. They can use the title Reve...
Parish The smallest geographical sub-division in the C of E. The whole of England is divided into about 12,500 parishes. Each parish has its own church (occasionally more than one), and has a priest who is responsible for arranging regular services. With more than 16,000 churches, the Church has rarely had enough clergy to give every parish its own...
Liturgy The general name for the form of worship in a service including formal written prayers, readings, and other calls and responses which make up the bulk of a traditional Anglican service. It is foundational for Anglo-Catholics. Most Anglican worship uses liturgy in one form or another apart from the most informal services. Holy communion/the ...
Anglo-Catholic One of the three main groups in the C of E. Anglo-Catholics are so called because they combine Anglicanism with more Roman Catholic traditions and style. They prefer more formal services, with choral music and organs, clergy in robes, incense and bells. They tend to emphasise the tradition of the Church very highly, although in terms...
The Church of England’s calendar is divided into seasons, grouped around important Christian festivals. The traditional beginning is Advent, which starts four Sundays before Christmas at the beginning of December. Then Christmas season begins on the 25 December and runs until 5 January. Epiphany begins on 6 January (it commemorates when the Wise Me...
General synod Effectively the parliament of the Church of England, it meets two or three times a year to pass new laws, scrutinise the national Church leadership and discuss other matters. It is divided into three houses: laity, clergy and bishops. The House of Laity is about 150 people, elected on five-year terms from each diocese, depending on po...
Canon law Canon law is basically the rule book of the C of E, comprising the current ecclesiastical law. Canon Law can be changed only by the general synod and for liturgical changes and doctrinal changes such as the ordination of women bishops, with the agreement of parliament. Consistory courts Each diocese has a consistory court which can hear c...
Jesus Christ with the people entrusted to their care. Deaneries form an important bridge between Parishes and the wider church, including the Diocese. Working together, churches within a Deanery support each other and share resources as well as information on Mission Action Plans (MAPs) and Parish Support Fund pledges. To underline this
Deanery Synod. Deaneries are small geographical divisions of the Diocese, within which parishes are grouped under the care of an Area Dean. Each deanery is governed by a deanery synod. The deanery synod is a statutory body under the Synodical Government Measure 1969.
A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residence of a dean.
News of Jesus Christ with the people entrusted to their care. In the middle of the nineteenth century, a deanery was a creature of statute. Nowadays, a deanery may only be created, altered or dissolved by a pastoral scheme under section 33 of the Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011. Initially, the focus of a ‘deanery’ was the rural dean.
