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Synodical Government in the Anglican CommunionRt. Rev. Linda NichollsThe purpose of this paper is to offer an overview of Anglican governance and decision making in order to appreciate how moral decisions are discerned and decided in an Anglican context. This will be a broad stroke presentation within which there are nuances and variations according to local practice among the Churches that comprise the Anglican Communion. An oft repeated phrase summarizing the governance of the Anglican Church is that it is ‘episcopally led and synodically governed’. These four words pithily condense a complex web of relationships between bishops, clergy and laity at every level of the structure of the…2012-03-26Texttext/htmlhttps://iarccum.org/doc/2301ARCIC-III 2012.08.01https://iarccum.org/doc/2301enARCIC-III : Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission III : Study papers© 2012, Linda Nicholls