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Friday Timetable

Friday – Provisional Timetable (subject to alteration)
10.00am – 1.00pm

  • Reading from Holy Scripture and Prayer
  • Formal business and communications
  • Report of the Representative Church Body (not more than 2 hours inclusive of related motions)
    (Including reports of the Church of Ireland Clergy Pensions Trustee Limited and the Church of Ireland Pensions Board)
  • Motion No 12 (Allocations)
  • Motion No 13 (Property Tax)
  • Mission and Ministry (not more than 30 minutes)
  • The Church of Ireland Youth Department
  • The Church of Ireland Marriage Council
  • The Council for Mission
  • Motion No 14 (The Council for Mission – Membership)
  • Motion No 15 (The Council for Mission – Mission Priority)

2.00pm – 6.30pm

  • Break out session (Commission on Episcopal Ministry and Structures (not more than 1hour 15 minutes)
  • Answers to requests for information (if any) (SO 51)
  • Report of the Commission on Episcopal Ministry and Structures (not more than 30 minutes)
  • Education (not more than 1 hour 30 minutes hours inclusive of related motions)
  • Board of Education NI
  • Board of Education RI
  • Motion No 16 (Secondary Education Committee – Membership)
  • Motion No 17 (Teacher Training)
  • Motion No 18 (Church of Ireland College of Education)
  • Anglican and Ecumenical and Interfaith relations (not more than 30 minutes inclusive of related motions)
  • The Covenant Council
  • Motion No 19 (The Covenant Council – Membership)
  • Motion No 20 (The Covenant Council – Resolution for Special Bill in 2014)
  • Motion No 21 (The Covenant Council – Celebrations)

If business listed for any period is completed before the hour appointed, reports listed for Saturday afternoon will be taken in reverse order, commencing with the Commission for Christian Unity and Dialogue. References in this motion to a “report” shall include any resolutions accompanying such report on the agenda paper.