Church's youngest members voted too.The new primate primate, member of the mammalian order Primates, which includes humans, apes, monkeys, and prosimians, or lower primates. The group can be traced to the late Cretaceous period, where members were forest dwellers. , Archbishop Andrew Hutchison Andrew Sandford Hutchison L.Th., D.D, D.C.L. (h.c.) (born in Toronto in 1938), is a retired Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. Prior to his election at the General Synod of 2004, he was the bishop of Montreal and metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Canada (which, , may have to work hard to win over the-very youngest members of the church, since he did not place first in a mock primatial pri·mate n. 1. A mammal of the order Primates, which includes the anthropoids and prosimians, characterized by refined development of the hands and feet, a shortened snout, and a large brain. 2. election held by the children's program at General Synod The General Synod is the title of the governing body of some church organizations. Church of England In the Church of England, General Synod was instituted in 1970 and is the culmination of a process of rediscovering self-government for the Church of England that had . On Saturday, May 29, half of the 44 children in the day-long event considered the three initial candidates--Archbishop Hutchison and bishops Caleb Lawrence and Ronald Ferris--and discussed the duties of the primate. "The majority of the children voted for the youngest and 'coolest' candidate," said Dawn Alexander-Wiggins, program consultant for children's ministry in the diocese of Niagara and co-ordinator of the children's program at General Synod. She spoke in an interview with General Synod communications writer Diana Mavunduse. The vote among the five- to 12-year-olds resulted in a tie between bishops Lawrence and Ferris. Originally, the diocese had planned a children's program that would have covered the eight days of the synod SYNOD. An ecclesiastical assembly. meeting, but only received one request. Ms. Alexander-Wiggins attributed the lack of interest to the agenda, with plenary sessions Plenary session is a term often used in s to define the part of the conference when all members of all parties are in attendance. These sessions may contain a broad range of content from Keynotes to Panel Discussions and are not necessarily related to a specific style of delivery. lasting until 9 p.m., the fact that schools were still in session and that many delegates are middle-aged and older. So, children from the diocese attended a full day of activities, including an introduction to aboriginal drumming and foods, a drama workshop on the theme of respecting differences, an outdoor pizza lunch and a puppet show. They illustrated the theme of synod--See, I Am Making All Things New--by decorating flower pots and taking a bulb to plant at home. |
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