Government
Tomas Kennedy, consecrated on 17 October 2007, is the Acting Presiding Bishop of the King's Family. He has been appointed with the responsibility for the development of the Dublin NightChurch, the King’s Church congregation in Spain, and two missionary districts in India. In total, he will oversee leaders that are pastoring over 600 congregations, as well as bible schools and orphanages.
Government in the King's Family is synodical at the diocesan level and collegial which recognized the assembled body of the bishops as its governing body. International and diocesan synods maintain different scopes of authority, depending on their canons.
The King's Family is not congregational in its polity: It is the diocese, not the parish church/congregation, which is the local church, and diocesan bishops must give their assent to resolutions passed by synods. Rather than jurisdictional lines built upon geographic areas, the King's Family establishes dioceses and congregations relationally. (See Episcopal polity).
The church upholds the historic three-fold ministry of bishops, presbyters, and deacons. The King's Family can trace its lines of Apostolic Succession through Anglican, Catholic and Apostolic lines.
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