Synod News
Bill on Board of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, Proposed at Synod
A Bill which seeks to incorporate the Board of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, as a company limited by guarantee has been proposed at General Synod meeting online this morning (Tuesday December 1). The Cathedral Board manages various functions of the cathedral including the preservation, restoration and repair of the fabric of the cathedral.
The Board is an unincorporated association with charitable status and is currently undertaking a major project for the repair and restoration of the roof of the Cathedral at a cost of approximately €9 million. Bill No 2, proposed by the Very Revd Dr William Morton and seconded by Albert Fenton, seeks to incorporate the Board as a company limited by guarantee to facilitate the raising of funds and the contractual arrangements for this project as well as to provide the protection of limited liability to the members.
Proposing the Bill Dean Morton explained that no changes were sought in the membership or functions of the board.
Speaking to the Bill, the Dean of Waterford, the Very Revd Maria Jansson, expressed her support for the Bill adding that in Waterford they had been down this route and it works.
Bill No 2 has passed its first and second stages and will receive its third and final reading tomorrow.