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November 2025 Newsletter
The next edition of the Newsletter is published and available here:.ELS Newsletter Michaelmas Term
Professor Norman Doe made fellow of the Ecclesiastical Law Society
Following his London Lecture on 9 July 2025, Professor Doe was awarded a fellowship of the Ecclesiastical Law Society.
His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew made Fellow of the Ecclesiastical Law Society
On Saturday 21 June, His All-Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, gave the final keynote address at our 2025 Conference ‘Nicaea Received’, and was then awarded a Fellowship of the Ecclesiastical Law Society.
ELS treasurer Moira Astin appointed Bishop of Crediton
The Ven Moira Astin, Archdeacon of Reigate, has been nominated to the Suffragan See of Crediton in the Diocese of Exeter
Election of Pope Leo XIV
Lee Coley welcomes the election of the new pope.
ELS Newsletter April 2025
The ELS newsletter for April 2025 has been published.
Ecclesiastical Moot 2025 at Nottingham Law School
Jack Stuart reports the success of this year’s annual Ecclesiastical Moot at Nottingham Law School.
Peter Collier KC relaunches Northern Province lecture series
It was a great joy for the ELS to relaunch the Northern Province lecture series on 20 March 2025.
New MA Church Law degree approved at St Padarn’s
A new postgraduate canon law programme with an Anglican focus has been approved, and teaching will begin this September.
Nicaea Received – tickets for our 2025 Conference now on sale
Tickets for the 2025 ELS Conference “Nicaea Received: 1700 years of Canons, Councils and Ecumenism” are now on sale to ELS members.
Response to the Law Commission’s consultation on Burial and Cremation
The Ecclesiastical Law Society is pleased to announce the publication of a response to the Law Commission’s October 2024 consultation on Burial and Cremation which has been submitted by a working party of the Ecclesiastical Law Society.
The Arches Court Lecture
The ELS is pleased to advertise a lecture on the Arches Court taking place at the Temple Church, London, on 26 March 2025.
Geoffrey Tattersall KC
The Society was sad to receive news of the death on 5th January 2025 of Geoffrey Tattersall KC at the age of 77.
ELS Newsletter December 2024
The ELS newsletter for December 2024 has been published.
EJA Working Party Report into Churchyard Memorial Regulations published
The Ecclesiastical Judges Association has published the Report of its Working Party into Churchyard Memorial Regulations.
Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers meets in Rome
On 24 – 27 September 2024, the Colloquium of Anglican and Roman Catholic Canon Lawyers celebrated its silver jubilee in Rome.
The Rt Revd Martin Seeley gives lecture on “Rebuilding Trust”
On Tuesday 15 October, the Rt Revd Martin Seeley, Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, delivered a lecture to the Society at the Grosvenor Chapel, London.
ELS Chair Lee Coley on restrictive covenants – BBC Radio 4
On Sunday 13 October 2024, ELS Chair Lee Coley spoke on the Sunday programme on BBC Radio 4 about the use of restrictive covenants on disused church buildings. You can listen to the recording here at 6:22.