PCC Membership

The detailed wording may be found in Church Representation Rules, but for most purposes the membership is:

• All clergy beneficed in or licensed to the parish
• If the parish is part of a team ministry, then all the clergy members of the team of that ministry
• Any deaconess or lay worker licensed to the parish
• The churchwardens, (also the deputy churchwardens of any districts legally defined by Scheme within the parish)
• If the PCC so determines, any Licensed Lay Ministers whose names are on the church electoral roll of the parish
• All persons whose names are on the church electoral roll of the parish and who are lay members of the Deanery Synod, Diocesan Synod or General Synod
• Elected representatives of the laity:
  6 – where there are 50 or fewer names on the church electoral roll
  9 – where there are 100 or fewer names on the church electoral roll
  a further 3 representatives for every 100 (or part thereof) names on the electoral roll up to a maximum of 15
• Co-opted members up to one fifth of the number of the lay representation or two, whichever number is greater.  These can be either lay or clergy