The decision of the Appellate TriÂbunal rejecting lay and diaconal presidency at the eucharist is the latest setback for the diocese of Sydney in its quest to find a means of allowing lay people and deacons to fulfil this function.
Since the 1990s, numerous atÂtempts have failed, but this decision is the most serious, because the dioÂcese’s current ordination policy is based on the premise that deacons can (in Sydney’s preferred terminÂology) administer the Lord’s Supper.
Under the policy that has been introduced in recent years, ordination as priests (or presbyters, as Sydney calls them) is restricted only to recÂtors of parishes. At least one newly appointed rector has been ordained priest in the same service in which he was inducted into his first parish.
Kendal, the article is, unfortunately, subscription only.
sorry for the typo, Dr. Harmon. forgot the 2nd “l”