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GS2016: Information

Also in GS2016 Convening Circular

Note: Files and links are being updated. (Dec 2025)

Guiding Documents

Information Documents

  • This Holy Estate: The Report of the Commission on the Marriage Canon
  • Unique features of an Indigenous Province, The Confederacy of Indigenous Spiritual Ministry
  • United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • Where We Are Today: Twenty Years after the Covenant, an Indigenous Call to the Wider Church – September 2014

The Business of Synod including items requested by General Synod

  • The Business of Synod
  • General Synod 2013 minutes
  • Detailed result of the vote A051 R2 as requested by Synod through Resolution A013.

People at General Synod

  • Partners — Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples
  • Ecumenical and International Guests
  • Members of General Synod (as of July 4, 2016)
  • Officers of General Synod and Sessional Committees of General Synod 2016
  • Planning Committees, General Synod 2016
  • Staff and Management Team at General Synod 2016

Nominations and Elections

  • Nominating and Election Procedures
  • Duties of the Prolocutor and Deputy Prolocutor
  • Council of General Synod 2013-2016
  • Committees of General Synod 2013-2016

Resolution Information

  • Memorandum on Resolution A051
  • Resolution Committee Guidelines
  • Procedure, No Debate List
  • Writing Resolutions

Worship Information

  • Witness List

About General Synod

  • Structure of the Anglican Church of Canada
  • Acronyms
  • Background
  • Retired Bishops

Acknowledging the land and God’s creation

This acknowledgement is crafted in light of the Principles of Reconciliation by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, as we seek to live faithfully in Christ and in right relationship with all. 

We give thanks to the Creator for this land, its waters, forests and all living beings, and for the abiding presence of Christ among us. From coast to coast to coast, these have been cared for and nurtured by First Nations, Inuit and Métis through countless generations. 

We honour the enduring relationship Indigenous Peoples have cultivated with these lands and waters, and the treaties and agreements that reflect these sacred bonds. We acknowledge the harms caused by colonial expansion, through frameworks like the Doctrine of Discovery and structures like the residential school system. We recognize our past failures as a Church, including disruption of connections to the land and suppression of Indigenous spiritualities. 

Guided by the gospel of Jesus Christ, we confess our need for healing. We commit ourselves to seeking truth, pursuing reconciliation and nurturing harmony with all creation. We place our trust in Christ, through whom all things are reconciled to God. 

May God strengthen us to live faithfully as stewards of the Earth. Let us walk in love, justice and reconciliation, joining in God’s work to restore all creation.