Everything you wanted to know about the Church of England

In response to requests from parishes and deaneries, Doug Chaplin and Sam Setchell will be running this session again this autumn. This will be particularly helpful for people newly elected to PCCs and Deanery Synods (or thinking of joining them), or those new to the Church of England. However, anyone is welcome and will find something of interest.

The Church of England is a complicated body, and it is dispersed across lots of different structures and contexts. Even just understanding some of the features of your parish organisation can be hard enough. We have our own organisational language: parish, benefice, team ministry, deanery, diocese, synod, to which we’ve now added oversight ministry, pioneers, new worshipping communities and a whole host of other things. Then there’s the alphabet soup: PCC, DCC, BMO, DBF and so on.

In this session, Sam and Doug hope to demystify as much of the Church of England as possible, and answer your questions. The booking form for this session will have a box for you to write in your own most burning question, so that we can do our best to make sure we can find out the answer. After the session, and with your active participation, we shall create a jargon-buster and list of frequently asked questions for our website.

Sam is the Diocesan Director of Communications, and Doug is the Discipleship and Lay Training Officer.

To book your place please click here