Legal Instrument - Public Notice Regarding the Confirmation of Sarah Mullally's Election as Bishop of London [2018-02-07]

Justin Portal by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of all England and Metropolitan

To all persons in Our Province of Canterbury and in particular to the Reverend George Raymond Bush and to the Churchwardens of the Parish Church of Saint Mary-le-Bow in the City of London Greeting

Whereas The Episcopal See of London having become vacant by the resignation of the Right Reverend Father in God Richard John Carew the College of Canons of the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul in the City of London after having petitioned for and obtained the Royal Licence for an Election to be held for a new Bishop did assemble and elect The Right Reverend Dame Sarah Elisabeth Mullally to be the Bishop and Pastor of their Cathedral Church

And Whereas Her Most Excellent Majesty Our Most Gracious Sovereign Lady Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith has at the humble Petition of the College of Canons of the Cathedral Church given her Royal Assent and Consent to such Election of Sarah Elisabeth Mullally as Her Majesty has signified to Us by Her Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm requiring Us to confirm such Election according to the tenor and exigency of the Laws and Statutes of England with all convenient speed (as more fully appears by Her said Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm inscribed and directed to Us)

And Whereas in obedience to Her Majesty’s Royal Command We have decreed that any persons who shall except to or question the validity or form of such Election or the identity of the person elected shall be cited and summoned to appear on the day at the hour and place for the purposes underwritten (justice so requiring)

Now We commit and strictly enjoin and require you the said Incumbent and Churchwardens to cite or cause to be cited (by affixing these presents in some proper place at the Parish Church of St Mary-le-Bow in the City of London or such other public place as shall be most expedient) any persons who may desire to raise any such objection that they appear before Our Vicar General or his surrogate at Minerva House 5 Montague Close London SE1 9BB on Monday 5 March at the hour of Eleven o’clock in the forenoon And all persons intending so to oppose shall make their objections in writing and deliver the same at the Principal Registry 16 Beaumont Street in the City of Oxford before Four o’clock in the afternoon of 2 March 2018

The Vicar General will sit in Chambers at 5 Montague Close London SE1 9BB aforesaid on Monday 5 March 2018 at Eleven o’clock in the forenoon to consider any objections that may have been delivered and no objector who shall not have given such notice and appeared in Chambers at such time may appear or be heard during the business of Confirmation

We and Our Vicar General or his Surrogate will then proceed in the business of Confirmation as our duty shall require according to the exigency of the Laws and Statutes of England

And what you shall do our cause to be done in the premises you shall duly and authentically certify Us Our Vicar General or his Surrogate or so to let one of you certify who shall execute this Our Mandate

Dated the seventh day of February in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and Eighteen and of Our Translation the Sixth

(Sgd.) John Rees

Principal Registrar of the Province of Canterbury
For and on behalf of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury