When the General Synod… [meets] at the University of York on 8-12 July, it…[will] be the first residential meeting of the Synod since it had been re-elected last November, the Secretary General, William Fittall, said at a press briefing on Monday.
To give members a chance to get to know each other, there would be more time than usual for group meetings and reflection, and, so far as he could see, little would prove conÂtenÂtious in the agenda. Speaking from his exÂperiÂence of 20 Synod meetings so far, he said that he had learned that it was impossible to preÂdict just how a group of sessions might turn out.
Next year would be different, he said, when the Synod would be “grappling with some of the most significant legislation for 20 years”….