Electors

Qualifications of Lay Electors, Proposers and Seconders

Proposers and seconders for lay candidate must be diocesan electors qualified as such at 6.00am on the date of the dissolution of the General Synod, 13 July 2015. The diocesan electors are the members of the houses of laity of all the deanery synods in the diocese, other than the co-opted members and persons who are members of a religious community with representation in the General Synod.

Qualifications of Clergy Electors, Proposers and Seconders

Proposers and seconders for the clergy must be electors qualified as such at 6.00am on 13 July 2015 (the date of dissolution of the 2010-2015 Convocations and thus of the General Synod). A bishop, priest or deacon is a qualified elector (subject to the exceptions in paragraph 4 below) if in one of the following categories:

(i)      Assistant bishops in the diocese but NOT members of the house of bishops of the diocesan synod;

(ii)     Archdeacons of the diocese;

(iii)    Beneficed clergy of the diocese;

(iv)    Clergy holding office in the cathedral;

(v)     In the diocese of London and Oxford respectively: clergy holding office at Westminster Abbey and St George’s Windsor (but NOT the deans of those collegiate churches);

(vi)    Clergy licensed under seal by the bishop of the diocese (including any clergy resident outside the diocese but holding licence of the bishop of that diocese;

(vii)   Clergy with permission to officiate who are members of a deanery synod of the diocese.

The following are not qualified electors: suffragan and other bishops who are members of the house of bishops of the diocesan synod, the dean of any cathedral church in the diocese, all Forces Chaplains, the Chaplain-General of Prisons, electors in the Universities and TEIs constituency and members of Religious Communities.