{"id":83457,"date":"2019-07-06T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83457"},"modified":"2019-07-06T11:15:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T15:15:19","slug":"aj-the-anglican-church-of-canadas-general-synod-a-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83457","title":{"rendered":"(AJ) The Anglican Church of Canada&#8217;s General Synod: A Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 350 Anglicans from across Canada\u2014delegates, partners, invited guests, displayers, volunteers and observers\u2014will gather July 10-16 in Vancouver for the 42nd General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada. While there, delegates will consider resolutions affecting the whole church.<\/p>\n<p>General Synod is the highest governing body in the church. Although the Anglican Church of Canada is a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion, it has final authority over its own affairs. It can pass, alter and strike down its own laws\u2014or, in church parlance, canons.<\/p>\n<p>The General Synod meets every three years, unless otherwise determined by Council of General Synod (CoGS), provided such meetings are not more than five years apart&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/general-synod-a-primer\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In case you missed our primer when it originally published, get caught up on the ins and outs to the upcoming General Synod, less than a week away. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GS2019?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GS2019<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8nv0lBvFXC\">https:\/\/t.co\/8nv0lBvFXC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 anglicanjournal (@anglicanjournal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anglicanjournal\/status\/1146785784902692864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 350 Anglicans from across Canada\u2014delegates, partners, invited guests, displayers, volunteers and observers\u2014will gather July 10-16 in Vancouver for the 42nd General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada. While there, delegates will consider resolutions affecting the whole church.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83457\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83460,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83457\/revisions\/83460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}