The College of Bishops of this Church with and under the Presidency of the Primate thereof shall have Charge of the Government and Administration of this Church.
The College of Bishops of this Church shall perform all duties prescribed for the College by the Constitution and Canons of this Church.
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The Secretary General, the Registrar, the Chancellor, the Bursar, and the Historiographer of this Church shall perform and discharge the duties of their respective Offices under the immediate and direct supervision of the Primate of this Church.
The Primate of this Church, by and with the advice and consent of the Holy Synod of this Church, shall appoint a Secretary General of this Church who shall be the principal administrative assistant to the Primate and the College of Bishops of this Church in the discharge of their duties set forth in Section 1.01, of Canon 1 above of this Title and shall coordinate the activities of the administrative officers and staff of this Church.
Such Secretary General shall be responsible for the recording and distribution of the minutes of all meetings of the Holy Synod of this Church and the Journals thereof.
Such distribution, except for good cause prevented, shall be accomplished not more than eight months after the adjournment and prorogation of the regular meetings of the Holy Synod and no less than three months before the next regular meeting of the Holy Synod.
Said Secretary General shall perform all other duties prescribed for him in these Canons.
The Primate of this Church, by and with the advice and consent of the Holy Synod of this Church, shall appoint a Registrar of this Church, whose duty it shall be to receive all Journals, files, papers, reports, and other documents or articles that are, or shall become, the property of any House of the Holy Synod; to arrange, label, index, and put them in order; to provide for their safekeeping and accessibility, and to hold them under such regulations as the Holy Synod may, from time to time, provide.
It shall also be the duty of such Registrar to procure a suitable book, and to enter therein the record of the ordinations and consecrations of all the Bishops of this church designating accurately the time and place of the same, with the names of the consecrating Bishops, and of other Bishops present and assisting; to have the same authenticated in the fullest manner practicable, including Signatures and Seals of the consecrating Bishops. Due notice of the time and place of such consecrations shall be given to the Registrar of this Church by the Metropolitan of the Province concerned wherein such consecrations shall take place, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the Registrar to attend such consecrations, either in person or by deputy.
He shall prepare, in such form as the College of Bishops of this Church shall prescribe, for such consecrations by the Primate acting as Metropolitan as set forth in Canon 5, of Title V aforesaid, the Letters of Consecration in duplicate; and he shall have the same immediately signed and sealed by the consecrating Bishops, and by such other Bishops assisting as may be practicable; and he shall deliver to the newly- consecrated Bishop one of the said Letters, and shall carefully file the other among the papers in his custody, and put them in order; to provide for their safekeeping and accessibility; and to hold them under such regulations as the Holy Synod may, from time to time, provide.
Due notice of the time and place of such consecrations shall be given by the Primate to the Registrar, and thereupon it shall be his duty to attend such consecrations, either in person or by deputy.
It shall also be the duty of such Registrar to enter in such Book of Record the record of the ordinations and consecrations of all Bishops of this Church under the authority of the Primate as their Metropolitan as aforesaid as set forth in Canon 5, of Title V above of these Canons, designating accurately the time and place of the some, with the names of the consecrating Bishops, and of other Bishops present and assisting; to have the same authenticated in the fullest manner practicable, make a minute book thereof in his Book of Record.
The Primate of this Church, by and with the advice and consent of the Holy Synod of this Church, shall appoint some learned and devout communicant of this Church, being learned in the law, as the Chancellor of this Church.
Said Chancellor shall, upon due and proper request, advise the Primate, the College of Bishops of this Church, the High Court of the Holy Synod, the Marriage Tribunal of this Church, other ecclesiastical bodies or entities of this Church, and of the Holy Synod or any of its Houses on matters pertaining to the Laws Ecclesiastical or to the Laws Civil, or both.
The Chancellor of every Province of this Church shall be, ex officio, a deputy, to the Chancellor of this Church, and shall, as necessary, render advice and assistance to him.
From and after January 1, 1981, the Chancellor of this Church shall not be concurrently the Chancellor of any Diocese or other such jurisdiction of this church or of any Province of this Church.
The Primate of this Church, by and with the advice and consent of the Holy Synod of this Church, shall appoint a Bursar of this Church, who shall perform the usual duties of a Treasurer.
Said Bursar shall particularly receive and disburse all monies received under the authority of this Church, and of which the reception and disbursement shall not otherwise be prescribed; and, with advice and consent of the Primate, shall invest, from time to time, surplus funds deemed available.
His account shall be audited in accordance with the provisions of these Canons and such account then shall be rendered to the Holy Synod at each regular meeting thereof.
Said Bursar also shall submit a financial report to each regular scheduled meeting of the College of Bishops of this Church.
Said Bursar, in consultation with the chief financial officers of all the constituent Dioceses and other such jurisdictions of this Church and of all the constituent Provinces of this Church or otherwise subject to the authority of this Church, shall prepare and present a proposed budget for the next fiscal term to the College of Bishops of this Church for their approval, upon which said budget shall thereafter be presented at the next regular meeting of the Holy Synod.
The Primate of this Church, by and with the advice and consent of the Holy Synod of this Church, shall appoint an Historiographer of this Church, who shall perform the duties of an archivist of this Church.
The term of tenure of Office of the Secretary General, of the Registrar, of the Chancellor, of the Bursar, and of the Historiographer of this Church aforementioned, respectively, in Sections 4.02, 4.03, 4.04, 4.05, and 4.06 above of this Canon shall be from the adjournment and prorogation of the regular meeting of the Holy Synod at which such Officer shall be appointed, respectively Secretary General, Registrar, Chancellor, Bursar, or Historiographer, as the case may he, to the adjournment and prorogation of the next regular meeting of the Holy Synod.
Upon any vacancy occurring in the term of tenure of any such aforesaid Office, the Primate of this Church, with the advice and consent of the College of Bishops of this Church, has authority to appoint an Acting Officer to any such vacancy until the adjournment and prorogation of the next regular meeting of the Holy Synod.
The Secretary General, the Registrar, the Chancellor, the Bursar, and the Historiographer, respectively, of this Church shall have by right of Office seat, voice, and vote in the Holy Synod of this Church and in the appropriate House concerned thereof of which ecclesiastical State and Order he or she shall be, respectively, a member.
The College of Bishops of each Province with and under the Presidency of the Metropolitan thereof shall have Charge of the Government and Administration of the Church in that Province.
The College of Bishops of each Province of this Church shall perform all duties prescribed for such College by the Constitution and Canons of this Church and of that Province concerned.
(a) Of Regular Canonical Meetings.
The Metropolitan of each Province of this Church, or, if there be no Metropolitan, the Bishop Ordinary thereof most senior in respect to consecration, shall summon all the Bishops of that Province subject to the authority of this Church into a formal meeting of the College of Bishops thereof at least twice during each calendar year, such meetings to be separated by at least an interval of six (6) months. He shall send to each Bishop entitled to sit as aforesaid therein a written summons to such formal canonical meeting giving both the time and place thereof at least three weeks prior to the same.
No Bishop of that province so summoned shall absent himself from any such regular meeting aforesaid unless for grave and sufficient cause prevented from attending, which cause of absence shall be expressed in writing and communicated to the Metropolitan prior to such meeting.
(b) Of Other Meetings.
The Metropolitan or the Senior Bishop Ordinary of each Province of this Church as set forth in Sub-section (a) above of this Section, may summon the members of the College of Bishops to other meetings thereof as he may deem necessary for the accomplishment of essential business, giving ten (10) days notice thereof, designating the time and place of such meeting.
A waiver of such ten (10) days notice may be executed by all the members of that College of Bishops concerned.
If any Diocesan Bishop or Bishop Ordinary of that Province be absent, the Metropolitan shall forward to the Senior Clerical and Lay Officials of the jurisdiction of that absent Diocesan Bishop or Bishop Ordinary and also to the Council of Advice of that aforesaid jurisdiction a summary of all the nonprivileged actions taken at such meeting by that College of Bishops from which their Bishop was absent. He shall also forward to them a statement noting the absence of their Ordinary and the cause stated for the same made by their Ordinary for such absence, and a copy of this Canon.
If any Diocesan Bishop or Bishop Ordinary of a Province of this Church is absent without grave and sufficient cause having been prevented for two consecutive aforesaid regular meetings of that College of Bishops, he shall be deprived of his vote therein for a period of four months following such second consecutive inexcusable absence.
If such a Bishop as set out in Section 4.03 above of this Canon is absent without grave and sufficient cause having been prevented for three or more consecutive aforesaid regular meetings of the College of Bishops of that Province, and the first and the last such meetings being at last five months apart, the Metropolitan of that Province shall take action against such Bishop as elsewhere provided in these Canons for the Abandonment of the Communion of this Church and shall provide pastoral oversight for those previously under the jurisdiction of such aforesaid Bishop.
The College of Bishops of each Province of this Church possess the inherent authority to determine, from time to time, its own rules and regulations as to that College of Bishops may seem expedient for regulating the practice and procedure thereof. Further, each College of Bishops aforesaid has the inherent authority and power to act by a maximum requirement of three-fourths (3/4) majority for collegiality, but unless of the Constitution of this Church, these Canons, the Constitution or Canons, or both, of that Province concerned, or its own rules and regulations mandate otherwise, such College of Bishops aforesaid may act by simple majority of a canonical quorum of one-half (1/2) of its membership, providing always that it has the consent of the Metropolitan concerned when there be such.
To assist the College of Bishops of each Province of this Church in the discharge of their duties as set forth in Section 5.01 of Canon 5 above of this Title and to coordinate the activities of that Province concerned, there shall be established the following Departments in each Province. Each of these aforementioned Departments shall be chaired by a Bishop who shall be appointed by the Metropolitan of each Province with the advice and consent of his College of Bishops, and each such Department shall be responsible for the development and recommendations of programmes, assistance to the Dioceses or other such jurisdictions of that Province, and to oversee, monitor, and guide all Provincial activities in its respective field of responsibility, as set forth in the following Sub-sections of this Canon:
(a) Ministry.
The Department of the Ministry shall be charged with the responsibility and duty to study, review, and recommend to the Synod of that province concerned and to the College of Bishops thereof, policies and d) dealing and concerned with:
(1) the development of ministerial resources and the encouragement of vocations to the Sacred Ministry;
(2) the means and methods for meeting the canonical requirements for Holy Orders;
(3) the role and requirements of a Permanent or Perpetual Diaconate;
(4) the role and requirements, as well as encouragement, of late or mature vocations to the Sacred Ministry;
56 (5) the role, training, specific qualifications, and encouragement of vocations to the lay ministries of the Church, especially the respective Offices of Deaconess, Lay Reader, and Lay Worker of the Church;
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(6) determination of the need for, requirements of, and development of guidelines and limitations to be placed upon voluntary associations of a ministerial or quasi-ministerial nature which desire the status of official sanction In that Province concerned of this Church.
In the latter case, such aforesaid area of responsibility shall extend to and include such associations or organizations as Societies of the Common Life, Confraternities or Archconfraternities, Guilds and Sodalities, Lay Associations and Associations of the Faithful, brotherhoods and the like, and which transcend parochial boundaries and the boundaries of Dioceses or other such jurisdictions of that Province concerned, but such area of responsibility shall not in any wise extend to or include Religious Orders, Communities, or Institutes.
The Department shall consist of and have at least one member, Clerical or Lay, from each Diocese or other such jurisdiction of that Province concerned and appointed thereto by the Bishop Ordinary thereof.
(b) Ecumenical Relations.
The Department of Ecumenical Relations shall consist of, among others, a Committee on Ecumenical Relations and a Committee on Validation of Orders. Each Committee shall consist of and have at least one member, Clerical or Lay, from each Diocese or other such jurisdiction of that province and appointed thereto by the Bishop Ordinary thereof. The Chairman of each Committee shall be appointed by that Metropolitan with the advice and consent of his College of Bishops.
(c) Christian Education.
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(d) Armed Forces.
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(e) Evangelism.
The Department of Evangelism shall be charged with the responsibility and duty, among others, of seeing that every member of the Church fully comprehends and acts upon his duty to be a herald of the Good News of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and to build the Kingdom of God.
To assist such ends, the Department of Evangelism shall from time to time review, study, and recommend to the Synod of the Province concerned and to the College of Bishops thereof, policies and programmes dealing with:
(a) the means and methods to bring people to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Church for the greater honor and glory of God.
(b) the means and methods to teach Anglican Catholics the role of Evangelism in a sacramental Church;
(c) the means and methods to promote personal spiritual growth and renewal in order to make disciples of those whom we evangelize;
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(d) the means and methods to act as a source of information on evangelistic activities within the Anglican Catholic Church.
The Department shall consist of and have at least one member, Clerical or Lay, from each Diocese or other such jurisdiction of that Province concerned and appointed thereto by the Bishops Ordinary thereof.
(f) Stewardship.
The Department of Stewardship shall include, among other elements, a Finance Committee. This Committee shall consist of and have at least one member, Clerical or Lay, from each Diocese or other such jurisdiction of that Province and appointed thereto by the Bishop Ordinary thereof. The Chairman of this Committee shall be appointed by the Chairman of the Stewardship Department.
Such Committee shall, through the Chairman of the Stewardship Department, advise the College of Bishops of each Province on financial matters related to TITLE XXI of these Canons, and the work of the committees in the several Provinces shall be coordinated in such areas as insurance and pensions in order to obtain the best possible business and administrative basis for the whole Church. The Provincial Bursar shall be an ex-officio member of said Committee.
(g) Multi-Lingual Resources.
The Department of Multi-Lingual resources shall be charged with the responsibility and duty of preparing and recommending programmes, and providing resources in the appropriate languages in support of the evangelical and missionary efforts of, as well as the Apostolic mission of the Church within, the Dioceses and other such jurisdictions of that Province concerned that are directed toward native or other population segments, or both, whose language is other than English.
The Chairman of each such Department may appoint Commissions as segments of that Department concerned, each such Commission shall be directed toward a single language or related group of languages, when the Metropolitan of that Province concerned and his College of Bishops shall determine that a sufficient need exists for work in a designated language or group of languages. The Chairman of each such Commission shall be appointed by the Chairman of that Department concerned, subject to the assent of the Metropolitan of that Province concerned.
Each Department of Multi-Lingual Resources shall be provided guidance and direction by the Metropolitan of that Province concerned and his College of Bishops with respect to the priority and scope of work in such designated languages or group of languages as aforesaid.
The tern of tenure of Office of each Chairman of such aforementioned Departments in Section 7.01 above of this Canon shall be from the adjournment of the regular meeting of the Synod of that Province concerned at which each such appointment is announced to the adjournment of the next regular meeting thereof.
(a) Of Statements and Reports to Each Metropolitan and His College of Bishops.
Each Chairman of such aforementioned Departments in Section 7.01 Each Chairman of such aforementioned Departments in Section 7.01 above of this Canon shall submit a written Statement and Report of the work, public policy, and activities of the Department for which he is responsible and render an account thereof annually to his Metropolitan and the College of Bishops of that Province concerned.
(b) Of Statements and Reports to each Provincial Synod.
Each such Chairman aforesaid shall submit a written Statement arid Report as set forth in Sub-section (a) above of this Section to each regular meeting of that Provincial Synod concerned and render thereto an account thereof for the period between any such regular meetings of that aforesaid Synod.
Each such Chairman also shall be duly prepared to respond at the time of presentation of that Statement and Report to that Provincial Synod to any written questions previously received and to oral questions of prior notice pertinent and germane to the subject of that Statement and Report concerned.
Such Statement and Reports aforesaid shall be distributed to the members, respectively, of the Council of Bishops, of the Senate of Clergy, and of the Assembly of the Laity of they Synod of that Province concerned no later than thirty (30) days prior to the time of registration at the meetings of that provincial Synod.
The Secretary, the Registrar, the Chancellor, the Bursar, and the Historiographer of each Province of this Church shall perform and discharge the duties of their respective Offices under the immediate and direct supervision of the Metropolitan of that Province concerned.
The Metropolitan of each Province of this Church, by and with the advice and consent of his Provincial Synod, shall appoint a Provincial Secretary thereof who shall be the principal administrative assistant to the Metropolitan and the College of Bishops concerned in the discharge of their duties set forth in Section 7.01 of Canon 7 above of this Title and shall coordinate the activities of the administrative officers and staff of that Province concerned.
Such provincial Secretary shall be responsible for the recording and distribution of the minutes of all meetings of the Provincial Synod concerned and the Journals thereof.
Such distribution, except for good cause prevented, shall be accomplished not more than eight months after the adjournment and prorogation of the regular meetings of the Synod of that province concerned and no less than three months before the next regular meeting of such Synod.
Said Provincial Secretary shall perform all other duties prescribed for him in these Canons and in the Constitution or Canons, or both, of that Province concerned.
The Metropolitan of each Province of this Church, by and with the advice and consent of his Provincial Synod, shall appoint a Registrar thereof, whose duty it shall be to receive all Journals, files, papers, reports, and other documents or articles that are, or shall become, the property of any House of that Provincial Synod concerned; to arrange, label, index, and put them in order; to provide for their safekeeping and accessibility within the archives established by the Historiographer; and to hold them under such regulations as such Synod may from time to time, provide.
It shall also be the duty of such Registrar to procure a suitable book, and to enter therein the record of the ordinations and consecrations of all the Bishops of that province concerned, designating accurately the time and place of the same, with the names of the consecrating Bishops, and of other Bishops present and assisting; to have the same authenticated in the fullest manner practicable, including the Signatures and Seals of the consecrating Bishops.
Due notice of the time and place of such consecrations aforesaid shall be given by the Metropolitan concerned to that Registrar, and thereupon it shall be his duty to attend such consecrations, either in person or by deputy.
He shall prepare, in such form as the College of Bishops shall prescribe, the Letters of Consecration in duplicate; and he shall have the same immediately signed and sealed as aforesaid by the consecrating Bishops, and by such other Bishops assisting as may be practicable; and he shall deliver to the newly-consecrated Bishop one of the said Letters, and shall carefully file the other among the papers in his custody, and make a minute thereof in his Book of Record. He shall also deliver to the Registrar of this Church a certified copy of such Letters aforesaid along with certified copies of other pertinent documents or documentation.
The Metropolitan of each Province of this Church, by and with the advice and consent of the Provincial Synod concerned, shall appoint some learned and devout communicant of this Church, being learned in the law, as Chancellor of that Province.
Said Chancellor shall, upon due and proper request, advise the Metropolitan of that Province, the College of Bishops of that Province, the Court of the Metropolitan or Provincial Court of that Province, the Marriage Tribunal of that Province, other ecclesiastical bodies or entities of that Province concerned, and the Synod of that Province concerned or any of its Houses on matters pertaining to the Laws Ecclesiastical or to the Laws Civil, or both.
The Chancellor of every Diocese, Missionary Diocese, Missionary District, or other such jurisdiction of that Province concerned, if there be such a Chancellor, shall be ex officio, a deputy to the Chancellor of that Province, and shall, as necessary, render advice and assistance to him.
From and after January 1, 1981, no Provincial Chancellor of any Province of this Church shall serve concurrently as the Chancellor of any Diocese, Missionary Diocese, Missionary District, or other such jurisdiction of that Province concerned or of any other ecclesial body or entity within or of said Province.
The Metropolitan of each Province of this Church, by and with the advice and consent of the Provincial Synod concerned, shall appoint a Bursar thereof, who shall perform the usual duties of a Treasurer.
Such Bursar shall particularly receive and disburse all monies received under the authority of the Provincial concerned, and of which the reception and disbursement shall not otherwise be prescribed; and, with the advice and consent of the Metropolitan of the Province concerned, shall invest, from time to time, surplus funds deemed available.
His account shall be audited in accordance with the provisions of Canon 9, of Title XXI below in these Canons, and such account then shall be rendered to the Provincial Synod concerned at each regular meeting thereof.
Such Bursar also shall submit a financial retort to each regular scheduled meeting of the College of Bishops of that Province concerned.
The Bursar, in consultation with the chief financial officers of all the constituent Dioceses and other such jurisdictions of the Province or otherwise subject to the authority of the Province which he serves, shall prepare, pursuant to the provisions of Canon 7, of Title XXI below of these Canons, and present a proposed budget for the next fiscal term to the College of Bishops concerned for their approval, upon which said budget shall thereafter be presented at the next regular meeting of the Provincial Synod concerned.
Further duties of the Bursar, of Deputy Bursar, and their relation to the Administrative Council of that Province concerned are set forth in Title XXI below of these Canons.
The Metropolitan of each Province of this Church, by and with the advice and consent of the Provincial Synod concerned, shall appoint and Historiographer, who shall perform the duties of an archivist of that Province.
The Term of tenure of Office of the Secretary, of the Registrar, of the Chancellor, of the Bursar, and of the Historiographer of each Province of this Church aforementioned, respectively, in Sections 8.02, 8.03, 8.04, 8.05, and 8.06 above of this Canon shall be from the adjournment and prorogation of the regular meeting of the provincial synod concerned at which such Officer shall be appointed, respectively, Secretary, Registrar, Chancellor, Bursar, or Historiographer, as the case may be, to the adjournment and prorogation of the next regular meeting of that Synod.
Upon any vacancy occurring in the term of tenure of any such aforesaid Office, the Metropolitan of such Province concerned, with the advice and consent of his College of Bishops, has authority to appoint an Acting Officer to any such vacancy until the adjournment and prorogation of the next regular meeting of that Provincial Synod concerned.
The Secretary, the Registrar, the Chancellor, the
Bursar, and the Historiographer, respectively, of each Province
of this Church shall have by right of Office seat, voice, and
vote in the Provincial Synod concerned and in the appropriate
House concerned thereof of which ecclesiastical State and Order
he or she shall be, respectively, a member.