Representatives from the different Anglican Church congregations in the Diocesan of Polynesia gathered at the Novotel Convention Centre in Lami yesterday to begin the electoral process for a new Diocesan Bishop.
Diocesan secretary and registrar Reverend Sereima Lomaloma said when the late Bishop of the Diocese of Polynesia, Reverend Jabez Leslie Bryce, died in February this year, his seat became vacant. “We usually have our synod, which is the parliament of the church, every three years,” she said.
“But this meeting was already planned by the late Bishop Bryce in 2009 after he announced his retirement in 2008.
“This synod has to take place. It is an electoral synod where the electoral college of the church is going to sit and elect a new bishop of Polynesia. It’s a process that the electoral college goes through and hopefully it will be over by Thursday evening.”