VESTRY

"Vestry” originally referred to the room in the church “in which the vestments, vessels, and other requisites for worship are kept and in which the clergy "robe" (The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church).

However, since the vestry was the room in which church business meetings took place, the word also came to mean “an elective body…composed of the vicar and a group of elected parishioners administering the temporal affairs of the parish”

The Vestry in an Anglican church meets routinely, usually monthly, to give leadership and oversight to the mission and ministry of the congregation Vestry is the executive committee of the parish and is elected annually.