The General Synod is the tricameral deliberative and legislative organ of the Church of England. The synod was instituted in 1970, replacing the Church Assembly, and is the culmination of a process of rediscovering self-government for the Church of England that had started in the 1850s.
Mark Davies is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2008, he has been the Bishop of Middleton, a suffragan bishop in the Church of England Diocese of Manchester.
Anthony William Robinson is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2015, he has been the area Bishop of Wakefield in the Diocese of Leeds. From 2002 to 2015, he served as Bishop of Pontefract in the Diocese of Wakefield.
Jonathan Hugh Frost is a British Anglican bishop. He has served as the Bishop of Portsmouth since 18 January 2022. He was previously Dean of York and Bishop of Southampton, a suffragan bishop in the Church of England's Diocese of Winchester since 2010.
The Anglican Diocese of Leeds is a diocese of the Church of England, in the Province of York. It is the largest diocese in England by area, comprising much of western Yorkshire: almost the whole of West Yorkshire, the western part of North Yorkshire, the town of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, and most of the parts of County Durham, Cumbria and Lancashire which lie within the historic boundaries of Yorkshire. It includes the cities of Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield and Ripon. It was created on 20 April 2014 following a review of the dioceses in Yorkshire and the dissolution of the dioceses of Bradford, Ripon and Leeds, and Wakefield.
Michael Geoffrey Ipgrave is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2016, he has been the 99th Bishop of Lichfield, the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Lichfield. He was the Bishop of Woolwich, an area bishop in the Diocese of Southwark, from 2012 to 2016. He served as Archdeacon of Southwark between 2004 and 2012.
Stephen Ronald Taylor is a senior priest in the Church of England and a former Archdeacon of Maidstone in the Diocese of Canterbury.
Cherry Elizabeth Vann is a British Anglican bishop serving as Bishop of Monmouth in the Church in Wales. She previously served as Archdeacon of Rochdale from 2008 to 2020, having served all of her ordained ministry with the Church of England in the Diocese of Manchester.
Joanne Kelly-Moore is a New Zealand Anglican priest who has been the Dean of St Albans since 2021. She was previously the Dean of Auckland in the Anglican Church of New Zealand from 2010 to 2017, and then Archdeacon of Canterbury in the Church of England.
Audrey Anne Elkington is a retired British Anglican priest. She served as the Archdeacon of Bodmin in the Diocese of Truro.
The archdeacons in the Diocese in Europe are senior clergy of the Church of England Diocese in Europe. They each have responsibility over their own archdeaconry, of which there are currently seven, each of which is composed of one or more deaneries, which are composed in turn of chaplaincies.
Linda Carol Nicholls is a Canadian Anglican bishop and Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada. She was previously Bishop of Huron and a suffragan bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Toronto from 2008 to 2016. She is the first woman to head the Anglican Church of Canada and the second female primate in the Anglican Communion.
Janet Elizabeth "Jan" McFarlane is a British Church of England bishop and former speech and language therapist. She has been a Canon Residentiary of Lichfield Cathedral and honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Lichfield since 2020. She previously served as Bishop of Repton since her consecration as a bishop on 29 June 2016; and (additionally) Acting Bishop of Derby from 31 August 2018 to February 2019.
Andrew Tremlett is a British Church of England priest. Since July 2016, he has served as Dean of Durham, and is therefore the head of the Chapter of Durham Cathedral and the most senior priest in the Diocese of Durham; since 2022 he has also been the Dean-designate of St Paul's (London). Previously, he was a Canon Residentiary of Westminster Abbey (2010–2016), Rector of St Margaret's Church, Westminster (2010–2016), Archdeacon of Westminster (2014–2016), and Sub-Dean of Westminster Abbey (2014–2016). He was also a Canon Residentiary at Bristol Cathedral (2008–2010).
Peter Andrew Eagles, is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2017, he has been the Bishop of Sodor and Man; he was consecrated a bishop in the Church of England in June 2017, and he was installed in September 2017. He is a former chaplain of the British Army, serving as Archdeacon for the Army (2011–2017) and the Deputy Chaplain-General of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department (2014–2017).
Guy Charles Elsmore is a British Anglican priest. Since July 2016, he has served as the Archdeacon of Buckingham in the Diocese of Oxford.
Kenneth John Letts is an Australian retired priest in the Anglican Church of Australia. He was the Archdeacon of France from 2007 to 2012.
Martyn John Gough, a British Anglican priest, is National Chaplain to the Royal British Legion. He is a retired military chaplain who was Chaplain of the Fleet and Archdeacon for the Royal Navy from 2018 to 2021.
Jonathan Robin Blanning Gough is a British Anglican priest and former military chaplain. Since March 2019, he has served as the Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven in the Diocese of Leeds. He had previously served in the Royal Army Chaplains' Department of the British Army.
