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Re Holy Innocents, Southwater

Chichester Consistory Court: Hill Ch, June 2009 Faculty – interregnum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2010

Ruth Arlow
Affiliation:
Barrister, Deputy Chancellor of the Dioceses of Chichester and Norwich
Will Adam
Affiliation:
Rector of Girton, Ely Diocesan Ecumenical Officer
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Abstract

Type
Case Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2010

In granting a faculty for a modest re-ordering the chancellor rejected the submission in certain letters of objection that such works should not be commissioned during an interregnum. The chancellor observed that twenty-first century constraints on clergy deployment and the empowerment of the laity in collaborative leadership meant that it could not be expected that the life, witness and ministry of a parish should go into abeyance merely because the benefice was temporarily vacant. [RA]