synod in English

noun
1
an assembly of the clergy and sometimes also the laity in a diocese or other division of a particular church.
In occasional diocesan synods , they harangued their clergy and issued reforming regulations.
2
a Presbyterian ecclesiastical court above the presbyteries and subject to the General Assembly.

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1. However, the synod did not follow through.

2. This synod marked the summit of Alexander III's power.

3. Calvinism had triumphed —or so the synod hoped.

4. Should the General Synod vote women into the priesthood?

5. Thus, Farel and several others were invited to the synod.

6. The synod condemned Manichaeans, and their practices.The concluding canons of the Synod condemned the Manichaeans for their actions, and declared many of their practices Anathematised.

7. The General Synod accused broadcasters of dumbing down religious programmes.

8. Constantine I convoked (314) a synod at Arles that condemned Donatism Donatism

9. The Archdeaconry Synod is the annual meeting of Licensed Chaplains and Lay Representatives

10. The Archdeaconry Synod is the annual meeting of Licensed Chaplains and Lay Representatives

11. However, the synod refused to grant him permission to translate the Hebrew Scriptures into Russian.

12. The synod of 358 was a Semi-Arian conciliabulum, presided over by Basil of Ancyra

13. Candidacy Your Candidacy journey begins when you contact your synod office (by using the widget on the right hand side to search for synod email). At the synod office, you will be directed to the person/s who can talk to you about your discernment journey and the Candidacy process, what forms are necessary and how to complete them.

14. Thirty-four years after his death, a synod in Jerusalem anathematized his beliefs as heresies.

15. Prepared by the Covenanting Action Plan Working Group, under the auspices of the Synod of VicTas

16. The vote came five years after the synod called for draft legislation to introduce women priests.

17. Henry convoked a synod of the highest German clergy in Bamberg and Brixen in June 1080.

18. Are there any other important aspects concerning Religious Life which should receive attention during the Synod?

19. It often appears in general Synod with some unspoken assumptions about the text of the Bible.

20. We pray for the general synod as it meets shortly, for wise decisions and clear leadership.

21. In this way the Synod will help develop closer collaboration between religious, lay people and priests.

22. Not all the bishops of the country were required to assist at the general synod.

23. During his early years as a teacher, an Alexandrine Synod stripped Origen of his priesthood.

24. The Council of the African Synod is a grouping of bishops from 16 African nations.

25. A synod or convention back in 1662 found the majority of ministers ready to compromise.

26. The greater Abbeys in England were represented through their superiors in Parliament, in Convocations, and in Synod

27. A decision on the ordination of women priests will be taken by the General Synod in November.

28. • In 1998, the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania was reformed by God’s grace

29. Two years later the synod issued a decree: “Confiscate all existing handwritten and lithographed copies of G.

30. Miss Street has now agree to cooperate with the synod on unveiling Ma'el's core engergy formula.

31. There were only a few dozen synagogues and fewer rabbis, yet the synod took two decades to convene.

32. The Church of Cyprus has been Autocephalous since at any rate the oecumenical synod of Ephesus in 431.

33. He allowed that others had proposed the Roman synod and the revision of the Code of Canon Law.

34. 5 Convocation, by 1327 no longer confusable with parliament,(www.Sentencedict.com) was assimilated to the clergy's own provincial synod.

35. The proposal will be debated in dioceses before being returned to the synod for final approval in 19

36. We are a part of the Concordia University System, and affiliated with the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.

37. ◦ The Regional Synod of Canada: This body represents all the churches of each classis and meets annually.

38. When in 1935 the Confessing Church synod protested the Nazi policy on religion, 700 of their pastors were arrested.

39. The Most Holy Synod (established in 1721) was the supreme organ of government of the Orthodox Church in Russia.

40. A large minority of bishops at a 1980 synod on the family, meanwhile, asked that the encyclical be reconsidered.

41. A two-thirds majority is needed in each house of the General Synod when voting takes place next Wednesday.

42. At the Synod of Hippo (393) it was ordered that "dignities" should be sent from each ecclesiastical province.

43. As a retreat conductor, preacher and speaker for religious communities in the Assembly and the Synod he had few rivals.

44. The Archbishop of Canterbury has expressed concern at the refusal of some clergy to accept the vote of the Synod.

45. Synod members were under pressure to crack down on gay clergy, who were portrayed as leading lives of wild abandon!

46. Entrance into Candidacy occurs through a synod Candidacy committee which provides guidance and makes decisions on behalf of the ELCA

47. Should such admonishment prove fruitless, he is to be removed from his pastoral office- with the consent of the Synod.

48. The General Synod could consider laying down salary scales for church musicians, as it does in respect of parochial fees.

49. Concordia Plan Services, the benefits provider for Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod employers, provides services to LCMS employers across the country.

50. 145 Congregations and one synodically authorized worshiping community serve as centers for evangelical mission in the Northeastern Iowa Synod