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Deanery planning is often best applied on a diocesan wide basis so that reorganisation is carried out in the diocesan strategic context, although these provisions also apply to a one-off deanery plan.
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The district chairperson, a cleric, religious, or lay person active in the district, selected by members of the district to promote collaboration and common pastoral initiatives among the parishes of the district.
A Deanery Synod 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.
- Revision of church electoral roll and preparation of new roll. The provisions relating to the revision of church electoral rolls and the preparation of new rolls in Part 1 are simplified.
- Annual meeting. The annual parochial church meeting may now be held between 1 January and 31 May (rather than 30 April): see rule M1. The annual meeting no longer appoints sidesmen; they are now appointed by the PCC: see rule M6(6).
- Parochial church councils – ensuring lay majority. Lay members of a PCC cannot be outnumbered by clerical members: see rule M15(2). A meeting of the PCC is quorate only if the majority of members present are lay: see rule M27(2).
- Parochial church councils – meetings. The Rules no longer specify a minimum number of PCC meetings which must be held each year. Instead, the PCC is required to hold a sufficient number of meetings to enable the efficient transaction of its business: see rule 23(1).
A person is disqualified from being nominated, chosen or elected or from serving as. member of a parochial church council, a district church council, a joint council or a deanery synod if the person is included in a barred list (within the meaning of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006).
(4) The person who is the member of a deanery synod under paragraph (1)(f) – (a) is chosen every three years, and (b) holds office for a term of three years beginning with the next 1 July following the date when the choice is made.
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Deanery Synods exist to serve the witness and mission of the wider Church and so need to be able to take strategic decisions to advance mission and ministry in the Deanery and the Diocese.
