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Convocation, an assembly of the clergy protected from molestation by 8 Hen. 6, c. 1. Its purpose is stated to be the enactment of canon law, subject to the license and authority of the sovereign (as required by the Act of Submission [25 Hen. 8, c. 19)], and the examination and censure of all heretical and schismatical books and persons. It is held during the session of parliament, and is convened by the sovereign. There are two convocations, one for the province of Canterbury, the other for that of York. Convocation consists of an upper and a lower house. In the upper sit the bishops and in the lower all the deans, the senior archdeacons, and the proctors of the clergy. A canon made in 1922 provides in detail for the consolidation of the lower houses. Convocation, by express license from the Sovereign, may legislate by making canons, which bind the clergy only. See Steph.Com., book 4, c. vi.; Hook's Church dictionary, tit. 'Convocation'; Reg. v. Archbishop of York, (1888) 20 QBD 740. S...
Prolocutor of the Convocation House
Prolocutor of the Convocation House, an officer chosen by ecclesiastical persons publicly assembled in convocation by virtue of the sovereign's writ; at every Parliament there are two prolocutors, one of the upper house of convocation, the other of the lower house, the latter of whom is chosen by the lower house, and presented to the bishops of the upper house as their prolocutor, that is, the person by whom the lower house of convocation intends to deliver its resolutions to the upper house, and have its own house especially ordered and governed: his office is to cause the clerk to call the names of such as are of that house, when he sees cause, to read all things propounded gather suffrages, etc., Jac. Law Dict....
Convocational
Of or pertaining to a convocation...
Church
Church, includes any chapel or other building generally used for public Christian worship. (Christian Marriage Act, 1872, s. 3)--The Church of England is a distinct branch of Christ's Church, and is also an institution of the State (see the first clause of Magna Carta), of which the sovereign is the supreme head by Act of Parliament (1 Eliz. c. 1), but in what sense is not agreed. According to Sir Wiliam Anson, the sovereign is head of the Church, 'not for the purpose of discharging and spiritual function, but because the Church is the National Church, and as such is built into the fabric of the State' (Law and Custom of the Constitution). 'The establishment of the Churchby law,' says Lord Selborne, 'consists essentially in the incorporation of the law of the Church into that of the realm, as a branch of the general law of the realm, though limited as to the causes to which, and the persons to whom it applies; in the public recognition of its Courts and Judges, as having proper legal j...
Canon law
Canon law. When Christian communities formed themselves into congregations ('kklhoiai), certain resolutions were agreed upon for their government; these were termed rules kavoves, forma, disciplina); and the phrases canonica sanctio, lex canonica, and canonum jura, were not introduced until the ninth century, nor the phrase jus canonicum until the canon law began in the twelfth century to be treated as a science. The canon law, properly so called, denotes the ecclesiastical law, sanctioned by the Church of Rome. It borrows from the Roman Law many of its principles and rules of proceeding, though not servilely, nor without such variations as the independence of its tribunals and the different nature of its authorities might be expected to produce, See Hall. Lit. Hist.The canons made in England in 1603, and revised in 1866, are binding on the clergy only, see per Lord Hardwicke in Middleton v. Croft, (1737) 2 Str 1056, some of them being very archaic, as canon 72, by which it is unlawful...
National Assembly of the Church of England
National Assembly of the Church of England. 'The assembly constituted in accordance with the constitution set forth in the appendix to the address presented to His Majesty by the Convocations of Canterbury and York on the 10th day of May, 1919, and laid before Parliament' (Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act, 1919). The Church Assembly consists of the House of Bishops (i.e., members of the Upper Houses of the two Convocations), the House of Clergy (i.e., members of the two Lower Houses), and the House of Laity, which consists of representatives from the two Provinces of Canterbury and York elected in accordance with the Rules contained in the Schedule to the Representation of the Laity Measure, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, No. 2). Measures passed by the Assembly are examined by an Ecclesiastical Committee consisting of 15 members of the House of Lords appointed by the Lord Chancellor, and 15 members of the House of Commons appointed by the Speaker. This Committee reports to Parliament. On...
Uniformity, Act of
Uniformity, Act of, (English) 14 Car. 2, c. 4, 'for the Uniformity of Public Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and for establishing the Form of making, ordaining, and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons of the Church of England' (now partly repealed), received the Royal Assent on May 19, 1662 and came into operation on August 24 (the feast of St. Bartholomew) following (see Lane's Notes on English Church History).After a long preamble setting forth the preparation of the Prayer Book by several Bishops and other Divines appointed by the King, its approval by the two Convocations, and stating that 'nothing more conduceth to the peace of this nation, nor to the honour of our religion and the propagation thereof, than an universal agreement in the public worship of Almighty God.' The Act directs that:All and singular ministers in any cathedral, collegiate or parish church or chapel or other place of public worship within this realm of England, d...
Convocate
To convoke to call together...
Convocation
The act of calling or assembling by summons...
Convocationist
An advocate or defender of convocation...
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