General Synod Elections 2021

Elections to the General Synod were postponed last year and are scheduled to take place later this year. Eligibility to stand is very wide: all adult communicant members on electoral rolls, for lay people, and all members of clergy, for clergy.

The Chairs of our Diocesan Synod, from the House of Clergy, Canon Richard Hibbert and from the House of Laity, Peter Adams have asked me to pass on their invitation to consider standing. They say:

“We want a broad range of people, especially from groups currently under-represented in the governance of the church, to think seriously about standing for election to the General Synod later this year. We also ask that if you know people from under-represented groups who might be open to standing, you give them encouragement to think seriously about it. We want our General Synod Representatives to represent the full diversity of our wonderful diocese and to contribute to informed decision-making at national level.

If any of this applies to you there is a Zoom meeting where you can hear from current General Synod representatives of the diocese what standing for election and serving on General Synod entails.”

Why not respond to this invitation or send it to someone saying: “Had you thought of standing? I think you should.”

7:30 pm, Tuesday 15th June, Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82529357338

Meeting ID: 825 2935 7338.