Synod Assembly 2025
Friday and Saturday, May 30-31
Q Center, St. Charles
Go, therefore!
Tentative Synod Assembly schedule
Friday morning
7 – Doors open, check in begins
8 – Assembly opens, morning worship
9 – Plenary
9:25 – Ecclesiastical ballot for bishop
10 – Break
10:15 – Workshops
11:20 – Plenary
11:45 – Lunch
Friday afternoon
1 – Plenary
2 – Break
2:20 – Plenary
4:30 – End of business
5:30 – Cocktail hour before dinner
6: 30 – Dinner (pre-registered)
Saturday morning
7 – Doors open
8 – Worship with eucharist
9 – Plenary
10:50 – Break
11 – Plenary
11:30 – Keynote session (Advocate)
Saturday afternoon
12:30 – Lunch
1:30 – Plenary
2 – Break, workshops
3 – Plenary
(3:30 Bishop’s report)
4:30 – Closing of assembly
Elections for bishop, officers
The 2025 Metropolitan Chicago Synod will elect a bishop, a vice president, and a secretary.
May 30, the first day of the synod assembly, the bishop’s election process begins with each voting member filling out an “ecclesiastical ballot,” nominating any eligible minister of word and sacrament. The process will continue until a bishop is elected or re-elected.
After the bishop is elected, the assembly will begin the election process with ecclesiastical ballots for the vice president and secretary.
Election information and results for bishop, synod vice president and synod secretary will be posted here as they become available.