SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Contents of Reorganisation Schemes

Provisions relating to bishops

2

A scheme by which a new bishopric is to be founded and a new diocese is created shall specify the see of the bishop of the diocese and provide for—

(a)

constituting the bishop of the diocese a corporation sole and investing him with all such rights, privileges and jurisdictions as are possessed by any other diocesan bishop in England;

(b)

subjecting the bishop to the metropolitan jurisdiction of one of the archbishops; and

(c)

the election of a bishop of the diocese.