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Recommendation 8
Union Among the Churches of the Anglican Communion - Encyclical Letter 2.4-6
- Every ecclesiastical province, which has constituted for the exercise of discipline over its clergy a tribunal for receiving appeals from its diocesan courts, should be held responsible for its own decisions in the exercise of such discipline; and your Committee are not prepared to recommend that there should be any one central tribunal of appeal from such provincial tribunals.
- If any province is desirous that its tribunal of appeal should have power to obtain, in matters of doctrine, or of discipline involving a question of doctrine, the opinion of some council of reference before pronouncing sentence, your Committee consider that the conditions of such reference must be determined by the province itself; but that the opinion of the council should be given on a consideration of the facts of the case, sent to it in writing by the tribunal of appeal, and not merely on an abstract question of doctrine.
- In dioceses which have not yet been combined into a province, or which may be geographically incapable of being so combined, your Committee recommend that appeals should lie from the diocesan courts to the Archbishop of Canterbury, to be heard by His Grace with such assistance as he may deem best. The circumstances of each diocese must determine how much consensual jurisdiction could be enforced.
[NOTE: The Lambeth Conference of 1878 did not adopt any formal Resolutions as such. The mind of the Conference was recorded by incorporating the Reports of its five Committees, received by the plenary Conference with almost complete unanimity, into an Encyclical Letter which was duly published. Recommendations embodied in the Committee Reports were evidently accorded equivalent status to formal Resolutions, and they are reproduced here as they appeared in the course of the Encyclical Letter, under appropriate reference.]
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