THE Queen will inaugurate the tenth General Synod on 24 November. The tasks awaiting the newly elected body include further work on the strategy to reverse the Church’s numerical decline, and exploring the “highly contentious issue of human sexuality”.
Introducing the agenda for the first group of sessions, 24-25 November, the outgoing General Secretary, William Fittall, said that it would not provide many clues to the strength of the “groupings” on the 468-member body. It includes a debate on the “migrant crisis” and discussion of the Archbishops’ Reform and Renewal Programme.
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