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1. Incumbents are required to conduct or arrange funeral services for parishioners at cemeteries or crematoria within their parish or nearby areas. They must also provide pastoral care for relatives and friends. 2. Those organizing the funeral generally choose the minister, and their preference will be respected if the minister is authorized to perform the service. 3. If a minister other than the incumbent is chosen, they must obtain permission, inform the incumbent, and provide pastoral care unless the incumbent agrees to do so.

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1. Incumbents are required to conduct or arrange funeral services for parishioners at cemeteries or crematoria within their parish or nearby areas. They must also provide pastoral care for relatives and friends. 2. Those organizing the funeral generally choose the minister, and their preference will be respected if the minister is authorized to perform the service. 3. If a minister other than the incumbent is chosen, they must obtain permission, inform the incumbent, and provide pastoral care unless the incumbent agrees to do so.

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 APPENDIX 7 FUNERAL SERVICES AT CEMETERIES

AND CREMATORIA

THE BISHOP’S REGULATION (In accordance with the model directions under Canon
B38 for use in a diocese.) See Section H6.

1. Every Incumbent shall, if requested to do so, conduct or arrange for the funeral service
of any parishioner of his/hers, or of any person dying in a parish within his/her
cure:-
(a) at a cemetery or crematorium with whose expenses the parish or part of the
parish is legally chargeable;
(b) at a cemetery or crematorium in an area which includes the parish or part of the
parish (see Note 3).
In addition, the Incumbent shall endeavour to provide for the pastoral care of the
deceased person’s relatives and, where appropriate, friends.
2. The general principle is that the choice of the minister to conduct a funeral service at a
cemetery or crematorium is to lie with those initiating the funeral arrangements (eg., the
family or executors of the deceased person). Provided that the minister they choose has
or obtains any necessary authority or permission required by law to conduct the service
(see Note 2) their preference shall, so far as possible, be respected.

3. Where those initiating the funeral arrangements invite a minister other than the
deceased person’s Incumbent to conduct the funeral service at a cemetery or
crematorium, and that minister accepts the invitation, the minister shall:
(a) obtain any authority or permission required by law to conduct the service (see Note 2);
(b) inform the deceased person’s Incumbent, either before the service or, if that is
impracticable, after it has taken place. This requirement does not apply where the
minister concerned is either:
(i) a Chaplain to one of the Armed Forces of which the deceased person was a member
immediately before his/her death;
(ii) a Chaplain licensed to an institution under Section 2 of the Extra-Parochial Ministry
Measure 1967 where the deceased person was a resident or inmate, or an employee or
student, of the institution immediately before his death.
However, in such cases the minister will normally, as a matter of courtesy, be in contact
with the deceased person’s Incumbent at some stage.
(c) assume the same responsibility for pastoral care as under paragraph 2 above,
unless the deceased person’s Incumbent agrees to do so.
4. In these directions:
(a) The Incumbent includes the following:
(i) where a benefice is vacant and (ii) below does not apply, the Rural Dean;
(ii) where presentation to the benefice is suspended, the priest in charge, if any;
(iii) a vicar in a team ministry to whom a special cure of souls has been assigned
in respect of the parish concerned.
(b) ‘Minister’ means a clerk in holy orders of the Church of England, or a lay person
duly authorised under Canon Law to officiate at a burial, or at a burial service before, at,
or after a cremation, according to the rites of the Church of England;
(c) ‘Parishioner’ means any person resident in, or enrolled on, the Church Electoral Roll of
a parish within the cure of the Incumbent concerned;
(d) ‘The deceased person’s Incumbent’ means the Incumbent whose cure includes:
(i) the parish where the deceased person was enrolled on the Church Electoral Roll
immediately before his/her death;
(ii) if the deceased person was not enrolled on a Church Electoral Roll, the parish where
he/she was resident immediately before his/her death.
NOTE 1
Directions will normally be given by the Bishop for the diocese as a whole.
NOTE 2
Under Canon C8, a priest or deacon:
(a) may not officiate in a diocese without the Bishop’s authority, in the form of institution to
a benefice in the diocese or the Bishop’s licence or written permission to officiate;
(b) may not exercise his/her ministry in a place where he/she does not have the cure
of souls (eg., by conducting a funeral service at a cemetery or crematorium in such a
place) without the permission of the minister having the cure of souls there.
There are certain exceptions to both these requirements. Under Section 2 of the Church
of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure, there is an exception to both (a) and (b)
applying to a funeral service at a cemetery or crematorium where the person performing
the service is:
(i) the deceased person’s Incumbent, or the Incumbent of the place where
he/she dies;
(ii) a chaplain licensed under Section 2 of the Extra Parochial Ministry Measure 1967
to an institution where the deceased person was resident, or an employee or student,
immediately before his death.
NOTE 3
The Canons also contain specific requirements which must be satisfied before a funeral
service is conducted by a Deacon (Canon D1), a Reader (Canon E4) or a Licensed Lay
Worker (Canon E7).

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