Provincial Registry York
Louise Connacher is the Provincial Registrar for the Province of York.
The Province comprises the Dioceses of Blackburn, Carlisle, Chester, Durham, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, Sheffield, Sodor and Man, Southwell and Nottingham and York.
Please direct all enquiries to registryyork@flintbishop.co.uk and we will be in touch.
Application to the Provincial Registry for the Permission of the Archbishop of York to officiate as a priest or deacon in the Province of York of the Church of England needs to be made by clergy who were ordained priest or deacon outside England.
An application form and note of guidance may be obtained by clicking on the overseas clergy section, or writing to the Registry, or e-mail registryyork@flintbishop.co.uk giving the applicant’s full name and address.
Provincial Registry York
Application to the Provincial Registry for the Permission of the Archbishop of York to officiate as a priest or deacon in the Province of York of the Church of England needs to be made by clergy who were ordained priest or deacon outside England.
An application form and note of guidance may be obtained by clicking on the overseas clergy section, or writing to the Registry, or e-mail registryyork@flintbishop.co.uk giving the applicant’s full name and address.
Provincial Registry York
The Registrar deals with the procedure and legal requirements after a person has been selected as the bishop of a particular see and the name announced by the Prime Minister’s Office.
For a diocesan bishop this usually includes:
All bishops in the Province are required to sign an instrument of resignation after they have tendered their resignation to The King through the Prime Minister’s Office. The Archbishop then formally accepts the resignation declaring the see vacant from the resignation date.
The Provincial Registrar is the Archbishop’s Legal Secretary, and as such acts on the Archbishop’s behalf in discipline matters which come before her.
Diocesan Registry York
Partner – Ecclesiastical & Charities
Louise is a senior ecclesiastical lawyer, advising the Archbishop of York, bishops, clergy, PCCs and churchwardens on a range of matters including faculty law, ordinations, clergy licensing, pastoral reorganisation, PCC and Diocesan Synod meetings, safeguarding and clergy discipline. She is Registrar of the Province and Diocese of York and of the Diocese of Sodor and Man.
Louise is often asked to advise bishops of other Dioceses on clergy discipline matters when their Registrars are unable to do so.
In her role as Provincial Registrar, Louise attends meetings of the General Synod, and sits on the Clergy Discipline Commission, the Fees Advisory Commission the Rule Committee and the Legal Advisory Commission. She is also Registrar of Tribunals for the Northern Province.
As a member of the Ecclesiastical Law Society, Louise is interested in, and committed to, the development of ecclesiastical law. She has contributed to working parties considering the reform of the Clergy Discipline Measure led by the Ecclesiastical Law Society and the Bishop at Lambeth.
Louise frequently delivers training in ecclesiastical law matters on behalf of the Ecclesiastical Law Society. She is also a committee member of the Ecclesiastical Law Association.
