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Issues associated with the choice and appointment of mission community leaders |
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Mission Community Leaders
- Who chooses them? (Congregation/PCC/incumbent/Mission Community Leader/bishop?)
- Does the post need to be advertised/open to applicants?
- What is the role of Patrons in the appointment?
- What will be their relationship to the congregations/PCCs/chapels?
- What are their roles and responsibilities? Who decides this?
- Are roles and responsibilities going to be the same for all Mission Community leaders?
Who decides this?
- Will they be Team Rectors/incumbents?
- If not, who is incumbent of the parish(es)?
- Who is incumbent if there is a non-Anglican Mission Community Leader?
- Will the person with authority be the same as the person with the responsibility
for the parish/congregation/chapel?
- What is their role/responsibility for congregations without a local leader?
- If local leaders are responsible for congregations, who is responsible for parishes?
- What is their position under Common Tenure?
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Andrew Parkinson |
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31/03/2014 |
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- It is important that the views of the local churches and clergy are
fully taken into account and the Bishop needs to be involved, together
with appropriate ecumenical involvement.
- When a mission community first comes into existence the position of
mission community leader will normally be open to all existing clergy
in the mission community who will be invited to apply, the role will
not normally be advertised externally. Once a mission community has
been established and if the position of mission community leader
becomes vacant as the result of someone retiring or resigning from
a post within the mission community then if that vacancy is
to be filled it will be advertised in the normal way. Determining
who is to fill the role of mission community leader is likely to
be contingent on the post being filled.
- The mission community leader will be 'first among equals' in relation
to the ordained clergy in the mission community.
- There will be a 'generic' set of roles and responsibilities for mission
community leaders. It will be for the leadership team in the mission
community, in conjunction with PCCs, etc., to determine the specific
roles and responsibilities for the leader of their mission community.
- The mission community leader will normally have been appointed to a
denominational post within the mission community and that will determine
whether they are a team rector, a priest-in-charge, a minister, etc.
- Every Anglican parish will continue to have (except during a vacancy) a
designated incumbent or priest-in-charge.
- If an Anglican church does not have a designated leader the role will
presumably be exercised by the incumbent and churchwardens.
- There is no real change, at present, in terms of who is responsible
for parishes - the incumbents, churcwardens and PCC continue to
exercise the responsibilities currently laid upon them by the
existing legislation. There is no change in terms of the position of
clergy under Common Tenure.
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Action required | |
These points need to be answered in material that goes out to deaneries. |
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PD / BLT |
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2014-03-31 Andrew Parkinson.pdf |
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