Chancellor’s Directions

Please remember in your prayers all those whose work and witness is concerned with the operation of the faculty jurisdiction in the Diocese of Chichester.

Any person or body carrying out functions of care and conservation under this Measure or under any other enactment or rule of law relating to churches shall have due regard to the role of a church as a local centre of worship and mission.
Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1991, section 1
NOTE
All previous directions on topics covered by these Directions, including the circular relating to churchyard memorials issued in 1974 and the Chancellor’s General Directions issued in 1981 and 2001, are hereby revoked.
These Directions will be subject to periodic revision. Parishes should ensure that printed copies of these Directions are kept up to date.


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