Save the Date – ELS Day Conference 2022

The Ecclesiastical Law Society Day Conference will take place on Saturday 2 April 2022 in London, on the subject of ‘Accidents of Ecclesiastical Governance: Past, Present and Future?’. Speakers at the conference will include Professor Norman Doe, Bishop Pete...

A Day in the Life of a DDO

The latest video on our Youtube channel is titled, “A Day in the Life of a DDO.” The Revd Neil Patterson is the Diocesan Director of Vocations & Ordinands (DDO) in the Diocese of Hereford in the Church of England. In this video he talks with the Revd...

The Duke of Edinburgh

The Ecclesiastical Law Society offers its deepest sympathies to her Majesty the Queen and all the Royal family on the death of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh.

ELS Conference and AGM for 2021 took place on 20 March

The Society’s planned Residential Conference for 2021 instead had to take place online because of COVID restrictions, but a happy consequence of this was that over 200 people registered to attend. The topic of the day was ‘The Solemnization of Matrimony: past,...