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Governing Body of the Church in Wales

April and September 2010

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2010

Philip Morris
Affiliation:
Archdeacon of Margam

Abstract

2010 marked the 90th anniversary of disestablishment; and the Archbishop noted in his April Presidential Address to the Governing Body that though disestablishment had been forced on the Church and its result had been to deplete assets, congregations had twice raised sufficient money to secure the Church's territorial ministry. Though the Church now had fewer attenders, clergy and ordinands than hitherto, it had survived greater challenges in the past. In his September address, as well as looking outwards and comparing the relationship between Gaza and Israel with apartheid in South Africa, he warned that the ‘Big Society’ might merely make life harder for the most vulnerable and reminded the Government that everyone needed good quality education, health and other public services.

Type
Synod Reports
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2011

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References

1 See the article by Nicholas Roberts on the Marriage (Wales) Act 2010 at pp 39–56 of this issue.