Resolution for the Meeting of the Diocesan Assembly to be Held at the Cathedral of the Dormition and All Saints at 11.00 am on Saturday, 26th June 2010.

 

  1. Recitals

 

1.1        It was noted that the existing statutes of the Diocese of Sourozh were incompatible in a number of aspects with both the way the diocese was historically and is currently managed and to the Canonical Statutes of the Russian Orthodox Church.

 

1.2        It was also noted that as a direct result of the above it is the wish of the Diocesan Council to amend the existing statutes in accordance with the regulations for amendment of the statutes within the Diocesan Statutes (Revised edition 2001).

 

 

  1. IT WAS RESOLVED THAT:

 

2.1              In accordance to Article X, section 2, Amendments, the following amendment is proposed:

 

2.1.1        That the existing Diocesan Statutes is wholly replaced by model civil diocesan statutes approved by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2007 and the model civil parish statutes approved by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2009.

 

2.1.2        The aforesaid model statutes be amended to ensure compliance to UK regulations where this is necessary.

 

2.1.3        The new edition of the statutes of the Diocese of Sourozh are submitted to the Holy Synod for approval as per the Statutes of the Russian Orthodox Church – X Diocese, 5.

 

 

  1. IT WAS FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Chairman of the Diocesan Council be authorised to do all such acts and things and agree and execute on behalf of the Diocese all such documents as may be reasonably necessary or desirable subject in each case to such amendments as the Chairman or person executing the same on behalf of the Diocesan Assembly shall think fit.

 

 

                                                                                                                        26. IV.2010