A prolocutor is one who speaks for others (Lat. pro, for, and loqui, to speak); specifically the chairman of the lower house of convocation in the two provinces of the Church of England, who presides in that house and acts as representative and spokesman in the upper house. He is elected by the lower house, subject to the approval of the metropolitan. A Convocation is a group of people formally assembled for a special purpose. ... The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ... When the word metropolitan (from the Greek metera = mother and polis = town) is used as an adjective, as in metropolitan bishop, metropolitan France, or metropolitan area it can mean: of or characteristic of a metropolis; see also metropolitan area of or belonging to the home territories of a country, as...
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The Prolocutor shall be an associate of, and assistant to, the Primate in the affairs of the General Synod and the Council of the General Synod.
The Prolocutor shall be ex‑officio a member of all committees, councils, boards and commissions, standing and special, appointed under any provision of the Constitution, or of any Canon enacted by the General Synod or under any resolution of the General Synod or of the Council of the General Synod.
The Prolocutor shall continue in office until immediately prior to the prorogation of the General Synod at which his or her successor is elected.
The Prolocutor said he simply wished to express his opinion, which was that they should accept the amendment of Canon Loosemore, and defer the consideration of the subject for the present.
The Prolocutor said that, in the 18th section it was laid down that the Lower House had power to accede or not to the request of the Bishops to grant a Conference.
The Prolocutor at once sent a message to the House of Bishops informing the President that the Lower House was prepared to have a Conference with the House of Bishops.
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