Review The ecclesiastical courts’ judgments in February 2024
Nine court judgments consistory were issued in 2024 including:
- ProceduralThe uRe:
- Churchyards, burials
- Reordering, Other building work and extensions
- Exhumation
- Churchyards, burials
Also included: Privy Council Business; Other legal issues; Visits; CFCE Determinations; Links to other posts The law of ecclesiastical institutions.
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Re St. Nicholas Leicester [2024] ECC Lei 2 This judgment was preceded (by three interim judgments with neutral citations) [2023] ECC Lei 1, [2023] ECC Lei 2, and [2023] ECC Lei 3 deals with the preliminary issues. It relates to a request for the introduction a new altarfrontal that displays the colours of Progress Pride flag. This is because the church, over the years, has been regarded as a place of safe worship for LGBTQIA+ persons of faith. The Chancellor refused to grant a faculty: “The Progress Pride flag is not a Christian emblem … it is a secular contemporary emblem used for many causes and contemporary discourse … The focus, purpose and celebration of the Holy Communion is for all to come to Jesus and remember His sacrifice … It is clear that there is not a unified belief that the proposed Altar…
